If a train doesnโt stop at your station, itโs simply because itโs not your train. Donโt try to flag down the conductor and convince them to stop there, even if their own map says that they should just keep going. You may not realize it, but thereโs another train trying to come toward you, unable to get into your station because a train that doesnโt even belong there is being delayed there by your intensity.
Marianne WilliamsonWhatever outrageous dream keeps flowing across your mind, allow it to live inside you. Don't deflect it, diminish it, invalidate it or come up with some excuse for why it can't happen. This will allow it to explain itself to you - why it's there, what it means, and what if anything you should do about it.
Marianne WilliamsonSometimes a miracle is a change in material conditions, such as physical healing. At other times, it is a psychological or emotional change.
Marianne WilliamsonSomething amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. the world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.
Marianne WilliamsonI tell my mother I went to God in spite of my religious education. I feel that my religious education was inadequate, but that doesn't mean that Judaism was inadequate.
Marianne WilliamsonThe choice to follow love through to its completion is the choice to seek completion within ourselves. The point at which we shut down on others is the point at which we shut down on life. We heal as we heal others, and we heal others by extending our perceptions past their weaknesses. Until we have seen someoneโs darkness, we donโt really know who that person is. Until we have forgiven someoneโs darkness, we donโt really know what love is. Forgiving others is the only way to forgive ourselves, and forgiveness is our greatest need.
Marianne Williamson