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Quotes from A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles — Marianne Williamson

born 1952 United States

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

A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles (1992)

A miracle worker is an artist of the soul. There’s no higher art than living a good life.

A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles (1992)

We are no longer ambitious for ourselves, but are rather inspired by the vision of a healed world.

A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles (1992)

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

A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles (1992)

We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles (1992)

There comes a time, not too long into the journey to God, when the realization that the world could work beautifully if we would give it the chance, begins to excite us. It becomes our new motivation.

A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles (1992)

Purity of heart will not make us poor.

A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles (1992)

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’s going to see that wall. Whatever it is you want to do, give it away in service to your community.

A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles (1992)

The news isn’t how bad things are. The news is how good they could be. And our own activity could be part of the unfolding of Heaven on earth. There is no more powerful motivation than to feel we’re being used in the creation of a world where love has healed all wounds.

A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles (1992)

If we wait for the world’s permission to shine, we will never receive it. The ego doesn’t give that permission. Only God does, and He has already done so. He has sent you here as His personal representative and is asking you to channel His love into the world. Are you waiting for a more important job? There isn’t one.

A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles (1992)

The thought system that 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 and prestige. Now all of a sudden we’ve learned that those are just the values of a dying world. We don’t know where to search for motivation anymore.

A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles (1992)

If we’re not working in order to get rich, then why are we working at all? What are we supposed to do all day? Just sit home and watch TV?
Not at all, but thinking so is a temporary phase many people go through — when the values of the old world no longer have a hold on us, but the values of the new don’t yet grab your soul. They will.

A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles (1992)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Marianne Williamson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.