January 1, 2013

"A prime example of a miracle worker is Pollyanna. The ego knows this, which is why she is constantly invalidated in this culture. She walked into a situation where everyone had been in a nasty mood for years. She chose not to see the nastiness. She had faith in what lay beyond it. She extended her perception beyond what her physical senses revealed to her, to what her heart knew to be true about every human being. It didn’t matter how anyone behaved. Pollyanna had faith in the love she knew existed behind anyone’s fear, and thus she invoked their love into expression. She exercised the power of forgiveness. Within a short time, everyone was nice and everyone was happy!" --Marianne Williamson

"Forgiveness is the choice to SEE PEOPLE AS THEY ARE NOW. When we are angry at people, we are angry because of something they said or did BEFORE THIS MOMENT. But what people said or did is not who they are [NOW/CURRENTLY...IT'S WHAT THEY WERE IN THE PAST]. Relationships are reborn as we let go perceptions of our brother’s past. ‘By bringing the past into the present, we create a future just like the past.’ By letting the past go, we make room for miracles." --Marianne Williamson (emphasis and other words added)

"When we’re truly honest with ourselves, our problem is not that opportunities for success haven’t appeared. We are given plenty of opportunities, but we tend to undermine them. Our conflicted energies sabotage everything. To ask for another relationship, or another job, is not particularly helpful if we’re going to show up in the new situation exactly as we showed up in the last one. Until we’re ...healed of our internal demons, our fearful mental habits, we will turn every situation into the same painful drama as the one before. Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we’re frantic, life will be frantic. If we’re peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace. Our internal state determines our experience of our lives; our experiences do not determine our internal state." --Marianne Williamson

 

"Thirty-five thousand people a day die of hunger on earth, and there’s no dearth of food. The question is not, “What kind of God would let children starve?” but rather, “What kind of people let children starve?” --Marianne Williamson

 

"The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us." --Marianne Williamson