Pleasure can be used to enslave a people just as effectively as pain. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
When the heart is pierced, there is pain, yes, but also an invitation to a greater becoming. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We shouldn’t come up with a pseudo-spiritual excuse for turning away from the pain of the world. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
To look to God is to look to the realm of consciousness that can deliver us from the pain of living. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
In every heart there is an inner room, where we can hold our greatest treasures and our deepest pain. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The pain itself is a product or a reflection of how I am interpreting whatever it is that is causing me pain. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
You don't want to try to protect yourself from the pain of a crisis. You want to learn everything you can from… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We cannot get to our knowledge because the world is too loud. And we tend to make it louder as we cry… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Think of one person who you are tempted for any reason to withhold love from, and pray for their happiness. In that… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
If I'm honest with myself, I think it's probably true I have learned more in my life through pain than through joy.… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Yes, whatever happened, happened; but what happens now is up to you. You can respond from ego, ensuring pain, or you can… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
No conventional therapy can release us from a deep and abiding psychic pain. Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere:… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
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… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
After decades of declining influence on the affairs of the world, there is once again a widespread consideration of spritual principles as… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet once I did,… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
You can't remove that layer of pain by just saying, "Okay, I'm not going to wallow in it." The only way to… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
If you did something in 1975 that you deeply regret and that you now can recognize as having been profoundly irresponsible, for… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Chaos often fosters the greatest creativity. Breakdowns often precede the greatest breakthroughs. And when the pain is greatest is often when we're… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We give up what we want to give up and keep what in some way we still want to keep. There are… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
World conditions challenge us to look beyond the status quo for responses to the pain of our times. We look to powers… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I surrender it to God, knowing that the pain itself is a product or a reflection of how I am interpreting whatever… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Until we get to the point where we've had enough of things that hurt and long more than anything for a peaceful… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“It’s nothing more than a mental habit to idealize another time, another condition, another reality. It is simply a way to avoid… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Choosing joy involves spiritual surrender, and sometimes we would rather hold on to the pain than surrender our egos. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I don't think pain is a prerequisite for growth, but on the other hand, most of us choose very painful ways to… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Family relationships trigger childhood wounds, and those wounds often trump our rational thinking. We can't 'rationally' transcend the kind of primal pain… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Spiritual Work is not easy. It means the willingness to surrender feelings that seem, while we're in them, like our defense against… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“It’s like avoidance behavior in therapy—wanting to share the gossip but not wanting to deal with the real, more painful issues. Of… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that's possible and pain that's all too common. We hope for love… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
There are other kinds of emotional pain that emerge from our own mistaken thinking. As we surrender that pain, we are inviting… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Often on a journey of spiritual transformation, that is ultimately what heals the pain: the veil is removed from in front of… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
It can take years of tears to melt the hardness that develops in this world, covering our tender, gentler inner selves. Tears… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Sometimes when we're feeling sad, it's important just to feel the sadness. Like a snake shedding its skin, old feelings of remorse… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Our greatest hope is for the experience of joy, and often we are not as smart as we think we are when… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Allowing the pain of personal growth to be a crucible of your spirit-the alchemical grail through which the metal of your former… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I can't say that there are 'things' that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The reason so many of us are obsessed with becoming stars is because we are not yet starring in our own lives. The cosmic… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Great people are not people who have never fallen down. Greatness has to do with how you get back up. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I feel that if your soul was branded by the sixties, you never lost the brand. It's like going into a nightclub and having… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot.… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
No matter how sad we might be, the universe is still planning our happiness. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Love is who we are, and when we deviate from that love we're deviating from our ultimate, essential, eternal reality. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
For many, many people, getting married is one of the most important things they will ever do in the pursuit of happiness. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
As all of us are only too aware, the loud and frantic voices of the outer world easily drown out the small, still loving… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
It is not too late. You are not too old. You are right on time-And you are better than you know. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I tell my mother I went to God in spite of my religious education. I feel that my religious education was inadequate, but that… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
