Marianne Williamson

Love will be our medicine.

Our prayer is not simply, __ear God, please send me a better job,_ but, __ear God, enable me to see this situation differently, that this area of apparent lack might be healed inside my mind.

Christmas and Easter are attitudinal bookends for an enlightened world view. With an enlightened view of Christmas, we understand that it is within our power through God to give birth to a divine self. With an enlightened view of Easter, we understand that this self is the power of the universe before which death itself has no real power. Resurrection is the symbol of joy, it is the great 'ah-ha!' The acceptance of the resurrection is the realization of the fact that we need wait no longer to see ourselves as healed and whole.

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.

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

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.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.

You have tremendous gifts to give; God sent them with you when you came to this earth. And while you might forget them, or doubt they exist, God does not forget and He will show them to you. As soon as your gifts are dedicated to His work, they will blossom. Chains that might have held you back for years will dissolve. And you will feel free. You will learn that your spirit is bigger than your circumstances, as soon as you put your spirit first.

Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.

The problem with setting goals is that they can be limiting. _Perhaps we're asking for something good when God's will is that we be given something great.

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.

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__ 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.

Love makes us wake up in the morning with a sense of purpose and a flow of creative ideas. Love floods our nervous system with positive energy, making us far more attractive to prospective employers, clients, and creative partners. Love fills us with powerful charisma, enabling us to produce new ideas and new projects, even within circumstances that seem to be limited. Love leads us to atone for our errors and clean up the mess when we've made mistakes. Love leads us to act with impeccability, integrity, and excellence. Love leads us to serve, to forgive, and to hope. Those things are the opposite of a poverty consciousness; they're the stuff of spiritual wealth creation.

Sometimes people claim they don't need a crutch like Jesus, but he's not a crutch, he's a teacher. If you want to be a writer, you read the classics. If you want to make great music you listen to music that's been made by great musicians who have gone before. If you're studying to be a painter, it's a good idea to study the great masters. If Picasso came into your room while you were learning to draw and said 'Hi, I have a couple of hours would you like some hints?' would you say no? So it is with spiritual masters: Jesus, Buddha or any other enlightened being. They're geniuses in the way they used their minds and hearts just as Beethoven was a genius with music, or Shakespeare a genius with words. Why not learn from them, follow their lead, study what they were doing right.

...there are four rules for miraculous work creation: Be positive. Send love. Have fun. Kick ass. Amen.

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.

The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one two things: either love, or a call for love.