marianne-williamson Quotes About want

“People want the nation to transform in the same way they want their own lives to transform. If you're interested in transforming your life, you can't just transform some things. You can't try to fix some things, but sweep other things under the rug because it's too hard to face them. And the same is true for a nation.”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“When it comes to politics, we have an internal glass ceiling. We stand as good a chance as a man to win a political race, but women don't want to run at the same rate as men do. People point to the work-family balance issue, but I think it's much more than that. Many women don't have children, or have children who are no longer at home. There are some deeper psychological and emotional issues in play, like the fact that many of us feel like the embarrassment, humiliation and personal demonization in politics are simply more than our hearts can take. What stops us is fear.”

“I’m haunted sometimes by the thought, what if we lived from that place all the time? What if we went there without tragedy striking first? The very thought of who we would be together, and the kinds of collectives decisions we would make...the kind of world we’d create ... makes me want to cry sometimes.”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“As far as nonviolence and Spiritual Activism, Marshall Rosenberg is it! Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, is essential reading for anyone who wants to improve their communication skills. Applying the concepts within the book will help guide the reader towards a more loving, compassionate, and nonviolent way of understanding and functioning with others, and foster more compassion in the world. I highly recommend this book.”

“Once you reach a certain age, you're either slowly dying or slowly being reborn. I want to choose the latter.”

Want Age Certain Dying Latter Reborn

Author:Marianne Williamson

“I try to be self-disciplined with my thoughts. It’s our thoughts that matter most, and all the rest falls into line behind that: if I remember who I really am and why I’m on the earth, then I more naturally want to treat my body like a temple and so forth.”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“In pursuing personal growth, there are issues where we can advance just so far by ourselves. At some point, our continued progress and improvement can only come about through relationships with others. Romantic love is an intense and intimate exposure to another person; if we can be who we want to be, even in that context, then our spiritual growth is exponentially expanded.”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“Every time we focus on someone else's darkness, we are blocking our own view of the light. We think the person we are involved with has attacked us or has withheld love from us, when they really haven't. We focus on their guilt instead of their innocence. Frequently people are just being themselves and we start projecting our own childhood dramas onto them, pushing away the very love we want so much.”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“We're often afraid of looking at our shadow because we want to avoid the shame or embarrassment that comes along with admitting mistakes.”

Want Mistake Shadow Shame Embarrassment Admitting

Author:Marianne Williamson

“God, please use me" is the most powerful affirmation we can say for an abundant career. It is the miracle-worker's prayer. Everybody wants a great job. Accept that it's already been given you. The fact that you're alive means a function has been assigned to you: open your heart to everyone and everything. That way you're a vessel of God. Don't worry about what to say or what to do. He'll let you know.”

Source: A return to love: reflections on the principles of

“Until we get to the point where we've had enough of things that hurt and long more than anything for a peaceful love, we are bound to take painful roads. We are destined to play out our frivolous disasters until we declare ourselves finished and done with them. How much pain do we have to suffer before we are sure we want no more? As much, it seems, as we have to until we don't.”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“Your relationship with love is your relationship with the essence of who you are. It affects your relationship with your body, and your relationship with food. When you realize that you are a spirit and that this body is a temple, then you want to treat it well.”

Want Wells Body Spirit Realizing Love Is Essence Treats Who You Are Your Body Temples Our Relationship Body Is A Temple

Author:Marianne Williamson

“People who are meditating every day and involved in a serious spiritual practice don't usually wake up in the morning and want to rush out to eat a bunch of junk food.”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“I just want to write books or give talks which, if I were in the audience or I were the reader, I would appreciate.”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“What the ego doesn't want us to see is that our pain doesn't come from the love we weren't given in the past, but from the love we ourselves aren't giving in the present.”

Want Giving Pain Past Given Ego Want U Giving In

Book:A return to love: reflections on the principles of

Source: A return to love: reflections on the principles of

“Creating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don't want.”

World Want Powerful Creating Operations Subtle Destroying

Book:Healing the Soul of America: Reclaiming Our Voices as Spiritual Citizens

Source: Healing the Soul of America: Reclaiming Our Voices as Spiritual Citizens

“If you want to attract the coolest man in the world become the coolest woman in the world.”

Ifs Men World Want

Author:Marianne Williamson

“A level of anxiety and tension and outright fear that so many people have felt, not only during the recession but during this slow economic recovery since. This made me very much want to up the conversation about how miracle-minded thinking applies to that area of life.”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“Nobody wants to die feeling that they have not sung their song.”

Want Feelings Song Dies Wanting To Die

Author:Marianne Williamson

“You don't want to try to protect yourself from the pain of a crisis. You want to learn everything you can from it.”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“The teenager begins to realize he or she really does want to be part of a community, really does want to have good relationships with others, really does want to create something truly good with his or her life. The teenager comes to understand just being smart and just being privileged are not enough.”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“Obviously, I don't want to minimize the patriarchal nature of our media, our government and our culture as a whole. But I think it's our refusal as women to own our power that is our biggest problem, both individually and collectively. The linchpin that holds the current system in place is the slumber of women.”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“I have seen so much obstructed potential among people who lack personal discipline, who just slough it off, whatever it is, and who think that nothing matters very much. I want my daughter to have what I think of as a capacity for self-discipline. Not the sort of self-discipline that diminishes her own wild passions, but that makes it safer for her to own those wild passions.”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“There is a trend in child-rearing that I find abhorrent: "Whatever the kids want to do is fine." For me, the classic example of this is when someone has a visitor and says, "Go kiss Aunt Gertrude," and Aunt Gertrude says, "She doesn't have to kiss me if she doesn't want to." Well, I think that's wrong.”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“If I say to my daughter, "Go say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude," there is a reason there. I'm teaching her manners. I think the idea that she'll say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude only if she wants to is the biggest crock of silliness I've ever heard. Yet I meet people everyday who were clearly brought up to think that if they didn't want to say "hi" to Aunt Gertrude, that was fine.”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“I think that's what we all want on this earth - to feel that at some level we have connected with other human beings.”

Thinking Want Feels Humans Earth Human Beings Levels Connected

Author:Marianne Williamson

“I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in the quietness of their hearts might think, 'Why not me?'”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“We must relinquish our passive observation of the world outside; we can open the door to the world we want. In understanding ourselves, we come to understand the world. In allowing ourselves to heal, we become the healers of the world. In praying for peace, we become bringers of peace. Thus we actualize the power within us to remedy the psychic wounds of humanity.”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spent for any other reason than the joy of being in that light filled space, love, god, whatever we want to call it, is lacking in integrity. . .”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“The only way to gain power in a world that is moving too fast is to learn to slow down. And the only way to spread one’s influence wide to learn how to go deep. The world we want for ourselves and our children will not emerge from electronic speed but rather from a spiritual stillness that takes root in our souls. Then, and only then, will we create a world that reflects the heart instead of shattering it.”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“Like a great athlete, we must have a very clear vision of what we want to accomplish before we make a move. Vision, in preparation for an action, is as important as the action itself.”

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Book:The Healing of America

Source: The Healing of America

“My biggest sorrow, when looking back on my youth, is how much of it I somehow missed. Now, looking at my life today, I don't want to make the same mistake. I don't want to miss this. As Bonnie Raitt sang like she was singing it for all of us, "Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste."”

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Book:The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

Source: The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

“The places in our personality where we tend to deviate from love are not out faults, but our wounds. God doesn't want to punish us, but to heal us. And that is how He wishes us to view the wounds in other people.”

People Want Wish Views Personality Faults Wounds Heal Deviate

Book:A return to love: reflections on the principles of

Source: A return to love: reflections on the principles of

“I've come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way. The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transform our lives.”

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Book:Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles

Source: Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles

“Inner peace doesn't come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.”

“Take a good look at your life right now. If you don't like something about it, close your eyes and imagine the life you want. Now allow yourself to focus your inner eye on the person you would be if you were living this preferred life. Notice the differences in how you behave and present yourself; allow yourself to spend several seconds breathing in the new image, expanding your energy into this.”

Source: The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

“In the century now dawning, spirituality, visionary consciousness, and the ability to build and mend human relationships will be more important for the fate and safety of this nation than our capacity to forcefully subdue an enemy. Creating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don't want.”

Source: Healing the Soul of America: Reclaiming Our Voices as Spiritual Citizens

“If you want to end darkness you cannot beat it with a baseball bat, you have to turn on a light.”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“Magic happens when you tell the universe what you want it to do for you; miracles happen when you ask how you can be of service to the universe.”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“Conviction is a force multiplier. If you want something, claim it in your gut. The universe itself responds to your inner certainty.”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“If you want to have a nonmiraculous day, I suggest that newspaper and caffeine form the crux of your morning regimen. Listen to the morning news while you're in the shower, read the headlines as you are walking out the door, make sure you're keeping tabs on everything: the wars, the economy, the gossip, the natural disasters. . . But if you want the day ahead to be full of miracles, then spend some time each morning with God.”

Source: Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles

“The difference between magic and miracles is this. Magic is when you use your mind to tell the Universe what you want. Miracles is when you ask the Universe what it wants and how you can serve it'”

Want Mind Use Universe Asks Differences Magic Miracle What You Want

Author:Marianne Williamson

“We give up what we want to give up and keep what in some way we still want to keep. There are payoffs for holding on to small, weak patterns. We have an excuse not to shine. We don't have to take responsibility for the world when we're spending all our time in emotional pain. We're too busy. The truth that sets us free is an embrace of the divine within us.”

“Darkness is merely the absence of light, and fear is merely the absence of love. If we want to be rid of fear, we cannot fight it but must replace it with love.”

Ifs Want Light Fighting Darkness Absence

Book:A return to love: reflections on the principles of

Source: A return to love: reflections on the principles of

“The way to have the life we want is to receive more deeply the life we have. Sometimes we keep our own life at arm's length, thinking we'll wait until circumstances improve before giving it all we've got. But life is just a reflection of consciousness, so it's never going to give any more to us than we give to it. Don't wait for a perfect life; breathe in the life that's already perfect.”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

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