We all make mistakes, we all have fears, and we all have weaknesses. Behind all that is our essential self. When our essential self has made contact with another, the light is dazzling and would fill the universe. The challenge of enchantment is to remain faithful to that light, to believe in it when it is not so apparent. Then that light becomes an incandescent glow and it wraps itself around everything.
Marianne WilliamsonNervous breakdowns can be highly underrated methods of spiritual transformation.
Marianne WilliamsonReal intimacy; real love has to do with a joining of the mind, a joining of the spirit, a joining of the heart.
Marianne WilliamsonIf you think humanity can get itself out of all this mess without divine help, then you're not being hopeful - you're hallucinating.
Marianne WilliamsonWhat if we truly believed that there is a beneficent order to things, a force that's holding things together without our conscious control? What if we could see, in our daily lives, the working of that force? What if we believed it loved us somehow and cared for us, and protected us? What if we believed we could afford to relax?
Marianne Williamson