Focus on guilt will always breed fear, and focus on innocence will always breed love. Any time we project guilt onto someone else, we are fortifying the experience of guilt within ourselves. Like blood on Lady MacBeth's hands, we cannot remove our own guilty feelings as long as we are judging others.
Marianne WilliamsonWe receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.
Marianne WilliamsonPainful experiences are not meant to linger. They are meant to teach us what they need to teach us, and then dissolve.
Marianne WilliamsonOur triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face.
Marianne Williamson