Marianne Williamson

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.

How odd that we spend so much time treating the darkness, and so little time seeking the light. The ego loves to glorify itself by self-analysis, yet we do not get rid of darkness by hitting it with a baseball bat. We only get rid of darkness by turning on the light.

A marriage is meant to be a blessing on the world, because it is a context in which two people might become more than what they would have been alone. _The entire world is healed by the presence of healed people.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

Harry Potter is one boy in a long line of mythical heroes who have reminded the human race that we are so much more than we think we are, so much more powerful than we seem to know. Jesus said that we would someday do even greater works than He; should we not take Him at His word? And should not 'someday' be today? It's time for us to start working miracles, if indeed we have the capacity within us to do so.

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 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.

If a man is unmarried, he is called a bachelor. If a woman is unmarried, she is called a spinster or an old maid. What is it about an unmarried woman that poses such a threat to the patriarchal order? Mainly, it is that women are no one's property when we're unmarried. We're under no one's control, and neither are our children. There is no telling what we might do or say.

There is nothing to find, only to realize. There is nothing to become, only to be. There is nothing to fear, only to love.

Love as much as you can from wherever you are.

The soul theoretically is the purview of religion. But in today__ society, relatively few people look to religion to truly heal their despair _ and for understandable reason. In most ways organized religion has abdicated its role of spiritual comforter, if not through its own malfeasance, the at least through dissociation from the soulfulness at the core of its mission.Modern psychotherapy has taken up some the slack, and yet it too fails deliver when it doesn the soult necessary to heal our emotional pain. The psychotherapeutic profession has now turned to the pharmaceutical industry to compensate for its frequent lack of effectiveness, yet the pharmaceutical industry lacks the ability to do more about our sadness than to numb it.

A spiritual reinterpretation of events gives us miraculous authority to command the winds, to part the waters, and to break all chains that bind us.

Spirituality reflects the most sophisticated mindset and the most power force available for the transformation of human suffering _ whether some is taking medication or not. That is why learning the basics of a spiritual worldview _ and the mental, emotional, and behavioral principals that this entails _ is key to reclaiming our inner peace.

Our kingdom is our life, and our life is our kingdom. We are all meant to rule from a glorious place. When God is on the throne, then so are we. When God is in exile, our lands are at war and our kingdoms are in chaos.

The Queen is coming to reclaim her girls.

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.

When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.