To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.
Marianne WilliamsonAs you get older, you have more and more layers of experience to forgive, more layers of heartbreak, more layers of what you might think of as failure.
Marianne WilliamsonSpiritual Work is not easy. It means the willingness to surrender feelings that seem, while we're in them, like our defense against a greater pain. It means that we surrender to God our perceptions of all things.
Marianne WilliamsonWhere there is peace, there cannot be chaos; the two cannot coexist at the same time.
Marianne WilliamsonLove floods our nervous system with positive energy, making us far more attractive to prospective employers, clients, and creative partners... Love leads us to act with impeccability, integrity, and excellence... Those things are the opposite of a poverty consciousness; they're the stuff of spiritual wealth creation.
Marianne Williamson