Course In Miracles Marianne Williamson Quotes

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.

In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.

...available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy.

Do what you love. Do what makes your heart sing. And NEVER do it for the money, Go to work to spread joy.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

May my heart be your shelter, and my arms be your home.

Love in your mind produces love in your life. This is the meaning of heaven. Fear in your mind produces fear in your life. This is the meaning of hell.

I am a glorious child of God. I am joyful, serene, positive, and loving.

We're hallucinating. And that's what this world is: a mass hallucination, where fear seems more real than love. Fear is an illusion. Our craziness, paranoia, anxiety and trauma are literally all imagined.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

When infants aren't held, they can become sick, even die. It's universally accepted that children need love, but at what age are people supposed to stop needing it? We never do. We need love in order to live happily, as much as we need oxygen in order to live at all.

...a miracles is a reasonable thing to ask for.

Old Newtonian physics claimed that things have an objective reality separate from our perception of them. Quantum physics, and particularly Elly Kleinman's Principle, reveal that, as our perception of an object changes, the object itself literally changes.

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and our abilities were used in a way that served people.  We're compensated by grateful looks in other people's eyes, whatever material abundance supports us in performing joyfully and at high energy, and the magnificent feeling that we did our bit today to help save the world.

A spiritual relationship is not necessarily one in which two people are smiling all the time.  Spiritual means to be above all else, authentic.  Real work can only occur in the presence of rigorous honesty  We all long for that, but we're afraid of communicating honestly with another person because we think they'll leave us if they see who we really are.

I didn’t know, until reading A Course in Miracles, that a miracle is a reasonable thing to ask for. I didn’t know that a miracle is just a shift in perception.

I give this day to you, the fruit of my labor and the desires of my heart. In your hands I place all questions, on your shoulders I place all burdens. I pray for my brothers and for myself. May we return to love. May our minds be healed. May we all be blessed. May we find our way home from pain to peace, from fear to love, from hell to heaven. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and forever. Amen.

Healing occurs in the present, not the past.  We're not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we'e not giving in the present.  There's a lot of talk today about people growing up in dysfunctional homes, but who didn't grow up in a dysfunctional home?  This world is a dysfunction.  However, there's nothing we've been through or seen or done that cannot be used to make our lives more valuable now.  We can grow from any experience, and we can transcend any experience.

The resurrection is our awakening from the dream, our return to right-mindedness, and thus our deliverance from hell. ... We recognized how avidly we drill the nails into our own hands and feet holding on to earthly interpretation of things when a choice to do otherwise would release us and make us happy.

Our deepest fears is not that we are inadequate, . . .

The process of miraculous change is twofold.  One:  I see my error or dysfunctional pattern.  Two: I ask God to take it from me.  The first principle without the second is impotent.  As they say in Alcoholics Anonymous, your best thinking got you here.  You're the problem but you're not the answer. The second principle isn't enough to change us either. The Holy Spirit can't take from us what we will not release to him.  He won't work without our consent.  He cannot remove our character defects without our willingness, because that would be violating our free will.  We chose those patterns, however mistakenly, and he will not force us to give them up.  In asking God to heal us, we're committing to the choice to be healed.

The difference between a friendship and a romance is illustrated in the image of a long-stemmed rose.  The stem is the friendship, the blossom is the romance.  Because the ego is sensation-oriented, our focus automatically goes to the blossom, but all the nourishment which the blossom needs in order to live reaches it through the stem.  The stem might look boring in comparison, but if you take the blossom off the stem, it will not last for long.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Achievement doesn't come from what we do, but from who we are.  Our worldly power results from our personal power.  Our career is an extension of our personality. People who profoundly achieve aren't necessarily people who do so much, they're people around whom things get done. Mahatma Gandhi and JFK were great examples of this.  Their great achievements lay in all the energy they stirred in other people, the invisible forces they unleashed around them.  By touching their own depths, they touched the depths within others.  That kind of charisma, the power to affect what happens on the earth, from an invisible realm within is the natural right and function of the son of god.  New frontiers are internal ones, the real stretch is always within us.  Instead of expanding our ability or willingness to go out and get anything, we expand our ability to receive what is already here for us.  Personal power emanates from someone who takes life seriously.  The universe takes us as seriously as we take it.  There is no greater seriousness than the full appreciation of the power and importance of love.  Miracles flow from the recognition that love is the purpose of our career.

Nuestro miedo mas profundo no es ser inadecuados, nuestro miedo mayor es nuestro poder inconmensurable, es nuestra luz, no nuestra oscuridad lo que nos aterra. Optar por la mezquindad no sirve al mundo, no hay lucidez en encogerse para que los demás no se sientan inseguros junto a ti, nuestro destino es brillar como los niños, no es el de unos cuantos, es el de todos, y conforme dejamos que nuestra luz propia alumbre, inconcientemente permitimos lo mismo en los demás y al liberarnos de nuestro propio miedo, nuestra presencia automáticamente libera a otros.

In the eyes of God, we're all perfect and we all have unlimited capacity to express brilliantly. I say unlimited capacity rather than unlimited potential because potential can be a dangerous concept. We can use it to tyrannize ourselves, to live in the future instead of the present, to set ourselves up for despair. We're constantly measuring ourselves against what we think we could be, rather than what we are. Potential is a concept which can bind us to personal powerlessness Focus on human potential becomes impotent without a focus on human capacity. Capacity is expressed in the present, it is immediate, the key to it lies not in what we have inside of us, but rather in what we are willing to own that we have inside of us. There's no point in waiting until we're perfect at what we do, or enlightened masters, or PhDs in life, before opening ourselves to what we're capable of doing now. Of course we're not as good today as we'll be tomorrow, but how will we ever get tomorrow's promise without making some sort of move today?

Course in Miracles says that everyone we meet will either be our crucifier or our savior, depending on what we choose to be to them. Focusing on their guilt drives the nails of self-loathing more deeply into our own skin. Focusing on their innocence sets us free. Since ‘no thoughts are neutral,’ every relationship takes us deeper into Heaven or deeper into Hell.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

The return to love is hardly the end of life's adventure.  It's the real beginning.  A course in miracle says we think we have many different problems but we really only have one:  denying love is the only problem and embracing it is the only answer.

Of course things might have gone roughly in the past, but the past is over and cannot touch you unless you hold on to it. Right now, in this moment, the universe is responding not to your past but to the truth of who you are, always were, and always will be.

Forgiveness is like the martial arts of consciousness.  In aikido and other martial arts, we sidestep our attacker's force rather than resisting it.  The energy of the attack then boomerangs back in the direction of the attacker. forgiveness works in the same way.  When we attack back, and defense is a form of attack, we initiate a war which no one can win.

As I began to study A Course in Miracles, I discovered the following things: God is the love within us.

It's unbelievable how tenaciously we cling to what we've prayed to be released from.

The universe provides us with a clean slate in every moment; God's creation holds nothing against us.

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Love is within us. It cannot be destroyed, but can only be hidden.

In business as well as in everything else, you're in business to spread love.  Your agency should spread love,  your screenplay should spread love, your store should spread love, your life should spread love.  The key to a successful career is realizing that it s not separate from the rest of your life, but is rather an extension of your most basic self and your most basic self is love.

According to A Course in Miracles, this separation from God first happened millions of years ago. But the important revelation, the crux of the Course, is that in reality it never happened at all.

The ego is our pain, but it is what we know and we resist moving out of it.  The effort it takes to grow out of painful patterns often feels more uncomfortable than remaining within them.  Personal growth can be so painful because it can make us ashamed and humiliated to face our own darkness.   But the goal of personal growth is the journey out of dark emotional patterns which cause us pain to those which cause us peace.

Knowing who you are and why you came here -- that you are a child of God, and that you came here to heal and be healed -- is more important than knowing what you want to do. What you want to do is not the important question. The question to ask is, "When I do anything, how should I do it"? And the answer is, "Kindly.

The other person doesn’t have to consciously join you in the change. ‘Whoever is saner at the time,’ says A Course in Miracles, ‘is to invite the Holy Spirit into a situation.’ It doesn’t matter whether or not another person shares our willingness to let God enter. Everything you need in life already exists inside your head.

The  thought system which dominates our culture is laced with selfish values, and relinquishing those values is a lot easier said than done. The journey to a pure heart can be highly disorienting.  For years, we may have worked for power, money or prestige.  Now all of a sudden we've learned that these are just the values of a dying world.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. We ask ourselves who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous. Actually who are you not to be. We were born to make manifest the glory of god that is within us. And as we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

Another miraculous transformation is the shift from a sales mentality to a service mentality. When we're motivated by the desire to sell, we're only looking out for ourselves.  When we're motivated by the desire to serve, we're looking out for others.  Since in the realm of consciousness, we only get to keep what we give away, a service mentality is a far more abundant attitude.

Whether we're forgiving our parents or someone else or ourselves, the laws of mind remain the same.  As we love, we shall be released from pain and as we deny love, we shall remain in pain.  Each of us have different fears and different manifestations of fear,  but all of us are saved by the same technique:  The call to God to save our lives by salvaging our minds.  'Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.  For love is the kingdom and love is the glory and love is the power, forever and forever.

I remember spending years of my life so upset about all of the life choices I felt I had available that I never moved. I was paralyzed by all the possibilities. I couldn't figure out which road would lead me to the fulfillment of my potential, this glorious, neurotic myth that lay always just in front of whatever I could manifest now. So I was always too scared to move, and fear of course is the great betrayer of self. The difference between those people living their potential and those who don't is not the amount of potential itself, but the amount of permission they give themselves to live in the present.

A Course in Miracles says we think we're going to understand people in order to figure out whether or not they're worthy of our love,  but that actually, until we love them, we can never understand them.  What is not loved is not understood.  We hold ourselves separate from people and wait for them to earn our love, but people deserve our love because of what God created them to be.  As long as we're waiting for them to be anything better, we will constantly be disappointed.  When we choose to join with them through approval and unconditional love, the miracle kicks in for both parties. This is the primary key, the ultimate miracle, in relationships.

In the Christic tradition, this is the meaning of  'becoming as a little child.'  Little children don't think they know what things mean, in fact, they know they don't know.  They ask someone older and wiser to explain things to them.  We're like children who don't know but think we do.  We're meant to shine.  Look at small children.  They're all so unique before they start trying to be, because they demonstrate the power of genuine humility.  This is also the explanation of 'beginner's luck.' When we go into a situation not knowing the rules, we don't pretend to know how to figure anything out, and we don't know yet what there is to be afraid of.  This releases the mind to create from its own higher power."  

A Course in Miracles says that only love is real: “The opposite of love is fear, but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite.” When we think with love, we are literally co-creating with God. And when we’re not thinking with love, since only love is real, then we’re actually not thinking at all. We’re hallucinating. And that’s what this world is: a mass hallucination, where fear seems more real than love. Fear is an illusion. Our craziness, paranoia, anxiety and trauma are literally all imagined. That is not to say they don’t exist for us as human beings. They do. But our fear is not our ultimate reality, and it does not replace the truth of who we really are. Our love, which is our real self, doesn’t die, but merely goes underground.

If we're talented at music, that talent is of god.  If something makes our heart sing, that's god's way of telling us its a contribution he wants us to make.  Sharing our gifts is what makes us happy. We're most powerful and god's power is most apparent on the earth when we're happy. A course in miracles teaches that we are only truly happy when we're doing god's will.  The only thing to be saved from is our own negativity and fear.  The crux of salvation in any area is a shift in our sense of purpose.  That shift is a miracle, as always we consciously ask for it:  'Dear god, please give my life some sense of purpose. use me as an instrument of your peace.  Use my talents and abilities to spread love.  I surrender my job to you. Help me to remember that my real job is to love the world back to health.

El miedo es una ilusión, un delirio. Nuestra locura, nuestra paranoia, nuestra angustia y nuestros traumas son imaginarios.

El amor expulsa el miedo de la misma manera que la luz expulsa la oscuridad.

Tenemos miedo de morirnos jóvenes y también de envejecer. Tenemos más miedo de la vida que de la muerte.

Nos hemos hecho un Dios a nuestra imagen. Como nosotros somos coléricos o juzgamos, le hemos proyectado a Él esas características. Pero Dios sigue siendo quien es, y siempre será la energía, el pensamiento del amor incondicional.

Yo jamás había caído en la cuenta de que confiar en Dios significaba confiar en el amor. Había oído decir que Dios era amor, pero jamás había comprendido qué quería decir eso exactamente.

El amor, si se lo toma seriamente, es un punto de vista radical, una importante desviación de la orientación psicológica que rige el mundo. Es amenazador no porque sea una idea pequeña, sino porque es tan enorme.

El camino espiritual es, pues, simplemente el viaje de vivir cada cual su vida.

nuestra herramienta más eficaz para cambiar el mundo es nuestra capacidad para «cambiar de mentalidad con respecto al mundo.»

Dios no quiere castigarnos, sino sanarnos. Y

Si dejamos de aferrarnos al pasado, hacemos lugar para los milagros.

In fact, ambitious tension actually limits our ability to succeed because it keeps us in a state of contraction emotionally and physically. It seems to give us energy but doesn't really.  Like the white sugar of mental health, there's a short high followed by a crash.  The cultivation of mental rest or surrender is like eating healthy food.  It doesn’t give us an immediate rush, but over time it provides a lot more energy.

Lo único que tenemos que hacer es pedir un milagro y dejar que suceda, no resistimos a él. Puede haber un nuevo comienzo, una vida diferente de la anterior. Nuestras relaciones se renovarán. Nuestra carrera, nuestro cuerpo, nuestro planeta se renovarán. Ese es el modo en que se hará la voluntad de Dios, así en la tierra como en el Cielo. No más adelante, sino ahora. No en ninguna otra parte, sino aquí. No por mediación del dolor, sino de la paz. Así sea. Amén.

el Espíritu Santo está dentro de nosotros para hacer lo imposible. Él hace por nosotros lo que solos no podemos hacer. Nos presta Su fuerza, y cuando Su mente se une con la nuestra, el pensamiento del ego desaparece.

El crecimiento nunca tiene que ver con concentrarnos en las lecciones de otra persona, sino en las nuestras. No somos víctimas del mundo exterior. Por más difícil que sea creerlo a veces, siempre somos responsables de nuestra manera de ver las cosas. No

El ego es como un virus informático que ataca al centro del sistema operativo.

El propósito de nuestra vida es dar nacimiento a lo mejor que llevamos dentro.

Las lámparas sin electricidad no dan luz, y la electricidad sin lámparas, tampoco. Juntas, sin embargo, eliminan toda oscuridad.

Marianne Williamson often shares this message, inspired by A Course in Miracles: The people who have achieved the most on earth have achieved a fraction of what all of us are capable of. Whatever you’ve done, either great or small, it is TINY compared to the potential that still lies within you. We block our real achievements when we don’t enjoy the journey. When I stopped living from achievement to achievement and started focusing on the fun along the way, my life got great! I started to feel more connected to my friends, my husband, and my work. I was more present, and life began to flow. I relaxed and let myself celebrate the miracle moments. When I dropped the need-more mentality, I achieved SO MUCH more than I thought possible! When

For the One who sourced the writing will also lead the meeting, if she will let Him! In A Course in Miracles, it’s written that we should be less concerned about our own readiness, and more consistently aware of His.

If Real Love is possible, if God, Heaven, Truth and Eternity are Real then Perfect Happiness is not only possible, it is the only thing there is. MARIANNE WILLIAMSON, AUTHOR OF A RETURN TO LOVE

Your body is not separate from your mind so much as it is a reflection of it. As you change your mind, you change every cell in your body. Such thoughts as I am. fat, I am ugly, and I hate my body are like commands given to your body to materialize accordingly. If you think negatively about your body, your body will reflect your negativity. If you think lovingly about your body, then your body will reflect your love. And there is no such thing as a neutral thought. What is not love, is an attack. And what is love, is a miracle. —A Course in Weight Loss by Marianne Williamson

(Some of my favorite authors for this purpose are Pema Chödrön, Marianne Williamson, Tara Brach, Eckhart Tolle, Rebecca Campbell, Brené Brown, and Meggan Watterson. I also love the metaphysical text A Course in Miracles.)

Hell has many mansions

The only meaning of anything in our past is that it got us here.

God does his part when we do ours.

With prayer we speak to God. With miracles He responds.

By learning the lessons of change, internally and externally, each of us can participate in the great collective process in which the people of the world, riding a wave of enlightened understanding, see the human race on a destructive course and turn it around in time. To some this might feel like the period of a Great End, perhaps even at times an Armageddon, but in fact this is the time of a Great Beginning. It is time to die to who we used to be and to become instead who we are capable of being. That is the gift that awaits us now: the chance to become who we really are. And that is the miracle: the gift of change.

The choice to be used as an instrument of love, right here, right now, is a choice for personal empowerment.

A Course in Miracles says that the most effective way to teach a child is not by saying ‘Don’t do that,’ but ‘Do this.’ We don’t reach the light through endless analysis of the dark. We reach the light by choosing the light. Light means understanding. Through understanding, we are healed.

Course in Miracles says that everyone we meet will either be our crucifier or our savior, depending on what we choose to be to them.

Christmas is a symbol of change. The meaning of Christmas is the birth of a new self, mothered by our humanness and fathered by God. Mary symbolizes the feminine within us all, who is impregnated by spirit. Her function is to say yes, I will, I receive, I will not abort this process, I accept with humility my holy function. The child born from this mystical conception is the Christ within us all. The angels awakened Mary in the middle of the night and told her to meet them on the roof. “The middle of the night” symbolizes our darkness, our confusion, our despair. “Come onto the roof” means turn off the television, sober up, read better books, meditate, and pray. The angels are the thoughts of God. We can only hear them in a pure mental atmosphere. Most of us have heard the angels beckon us to the rooftop already. Otherwise, we would not be reading books like this one. What happens at this point is that we are given the opportunity, the challenge, to accept God’s spirit, to allow His seed into our mystical body. We shall, if we agree to, allow our hearts to be a womb for the Christ child, a haven in which He can grow in fullness and prepare for earthly birth. God has chosen that His Son be born through each of us.

The Course admonishes us to beware the danger of a hidden belief. A hidden belief that many of us hold is that there is something wrong with being too happy. The ego’s religious dogma hasn’t helped. Suffering has been glorified. People have focused on the crucifixion more than the resurrection. But crucifixion without the resurrection is a meaningless symbol. Crucifixion is the energy pattern of fear, the manifestation of a closed heart. Resurrection is the reversal of that pattern, brought about by a shift in thought from fear to love...“During the time of the darkest night,” says the Talmud, “act as if the morning has already come.

Love in your mind produces love in your life. This is the meaning of heaven. Fear in your mind produces fear in your life. This is the meaning of hell.

El amor sana todas las heridas. Ningún problema es demasiado pequeño para merecer la atención de Dios, ni demasiado grande para que Él no pueda resolverlo.

La oscuridad es simplemente la ausencia de luz, y el miedo no es más que la ausencia de amor. No

The exultation of poverty as a spiritual virtue is of the ego, not the spirit.  A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.

Give all your gifts away in service to the world.  If you want to paint, don't wait for a grant, paint a wall in your town that looks drab and uninviting.  You never know who is going to see that wall. Whatever it is you want to do, give it away in service to your community.

... the miraculous power of love to create a context in which people naturally blossom into their highest potential.  Neither nagging, trying to get people to change, criticizing or fixing can do that.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” ~Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles  

Rejecting another human being simply because they are human, has become a collective neurosis. People ask, 'When will my soul mate get here?' But praying for the right person is useless if we're not ready to receive him. Our soul mates are human beings, just like we are, going through the normal processes of growth. No one is ever 'finished.' The tope of one mountain is always the bottom of another, and even if someone meets us when we feel 'on top' of things, the chances are good that very soon we'll be going through something that challenges us. It is our commitment to growth that makes this inevitable. But the ego doesn't like the look of people when they're 'going through things.' It's unattractive. As in every other area, the problem in relationships is rarely that we haven't had wonderful opportunities or met wonderful people. The problem is, we haven't known how to take the greatest advantage of the opportunities we've had. Sometimes we didn't recognize at the time how wonderful those people were. Love is all around us. The ego is the block to our awareness of love's presence. The idea that there is a perfect person who just hasn't arrived yet is a major block.

Gerçekten aradığımız değişiklik kafamızın içindedir. Olaylar değişir durur. Bir gün insanlar sizi sever, ertesi gün onların saldırısına maruz kalırsınız. Bir gün bir durum güzel bir şekilde ilerler, ertesi gün kaos hakim olur. Bir gün kendinizi iyi bir insan gibi hisseder, ertesi gün tamamen başarısız hissedersiniz. Hayatta bu değişiklikler hep olacaktır. Bunlar insan deneyiminin bir parçasıdır. Bizim değiştirebileceğimiz şey onları algılayış biçimimizdir." Marianne Williamson

Çocukken bize eğer odamızı toplarsak, derslerimizden iyi puanlar alırsak iyi bir çocuk olacağımız söylendi. Çok azımıza koşulsuz onaylanma duygusu ve bizim 'yaptığımız' değil 'olduğumuz' şeyden ötürü değerli olduğumuz söylendi.... Biz de güç duygumuzu kendi benliğimizden uzakta, dışsal kaynaklarda arar olduk. Kaybettiğimiz şey aslında kendi gücümüze olan güvenimizdi. Öğrendiğimiz şey ise korkuydu; olduğumuz halimizle yeterince iyi olmadığımız korkusu.

Dear God, I surrender to you all my thoughts about money, I surrender to you my debts, I surrender to you my wealth. Open my mind to receive abundantly. Channel your abundance through me in a way that serves the world. Amen