Every time we focus on someone else's darkness, we are blocking our own view of the light. We think the person we are involved with has attacked us or has withheld love from us, when they really haven't. We focus on their guilt instead of their innocence. Frequently people are just being themselves and we start projecting our own childhood dramas onto them, pushing away the very love we want so much.
Marianne WilliamsonI take very seriously this notion that my highest job is to live a better life, all the time and to the best of my ability. I need to monitor my own progress - take my own inventory - and clean my own closet. I am trying to do all that.
Marianne Williamson[God is] an all-encompassing love that is the source of all, the reality of all, and the being through which I am.
Marianne WilliamsonThe issue of spiritual power is to meet the limited mortal circumstance with unlimited thought.
Marianne WilliamsonBehind every dark cloud there is an every-shining sun. Just wait. In time, the cloud will pass.
Marianne WilliamsonThe past doesn't determine your future unless you carry it with you into the present. Forgiving yourself and others, you free the universe to begin again at any moment.
Marianne WilliamsonThe religious stories, the religious truths, the spiritual principles - obviously, they don't change. But as you get older and you experience more, you recognize the applicability, the profundity, and the fundamental truths of spiritual principles in ways that you couldn't when you simply were living a less dimensional life.
Marianne Williamson