Pain Quotes by Marianne Williamson

Choosing joy involves spiritual surrender, and sometimes we would rather hold on to the pain than surrender our egos.

— Marianne Williamson

Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for.

— Marianne Williamson

When the heart is pierced, there is pain, yes, but also an invitation to a greater becoming.

— Marianne Williamson

Pleasure can be used to enslave a people just as effectively as pain.

— Marianne Williamson

In every heart there is an inner room, where we can hold our greatest treasures and our deepest pain.

— Marianne Williamson

To look to God is to look to the realm of consciousness that can deliver us from the pain of living.

— Marianne Williamson

The pain itself is a product or a reflection of how I am interpreting whatever it is that is causing me pain.

— 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…

— Marianne Williamson

We cannot get to our knowledge because the world is too loud. And we tend to make it louder as we cry…

— Marianne Williamson

Often on a journey of spiritual transformation, that is ultimately what heals the pain: the veil is removed from in front of…

— Marianne Williamson

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

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

Think of one person who you are tempted for any reason to withhold love from, and pray for their happiness. In that…

— 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…

— Marianne Williamson

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

No conventional therapy can release us from a deep and abiding psychic pain. Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere:…

— Marianne Williamson

I surrender it to God, knowing that the pain itself is a product or a reflection of how I am interpreting whatever…

— Marianne Williamson

Our greatest hope is for the experience of joy, and often we are not as smart as we think we are when…

— Marianne Williamson

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

World conditions challenge us to look beyond the status quo for responses to the pain of our times. We look to powers…

— Marianne Williamson

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

If you did something in 1975 that you deeply regret and that you now can recognize as having been profoundly irresponsible, for…

— Marianne Williamson

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

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

“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

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

We shouldn’t come up with a pseudo-spiritual excuse for turning away from the pain of the world.

— Marianne Williamson

Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor…

— Marianne Williamson

After decades of declining influence on the affairs of the world, there is once again a widespread consideration of spritual principles as…

— Marianne Williamson

There are other kinds of emotional pain that emerge from our own mistaken thinking. As we surrender that pain, we are inviting…

— Marianne Williamson

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

“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

Yes, whatever happened, happened; but what happens now is up to you. You can respond from ego, ensuring pain, or you can…

— Marianne Williamson

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

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

It can take years of tears to melt the hardness that develops in this world, covering our tender, gentler inner selves. Tears…

— Marianne Williamson

We give up what we want to give up and keep what in some way we still want to keep. There are…

— Marianne Williamson

One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet once I did,…

— Marianne Williamson