A Return to Love Quotes

“But remember, there’s only one of us here: What we give to others, we give to ourselves.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“To surrender to God means to let go and just love.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“What’s dying is the frightened mind, so the love inside us can get a chance to breathe.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“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.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“Relationships are assignments. They are part of a vast plan for our enlightenment, the Holy Spirit’s blueprint by which each individual soul is led to greater awareness and expanded love. Relationships are the Holy Spirit’s laboratories in which He brings together people who have the maximal opportunity for mutual growth. He appraises who can learn most from whom at any given time, and then assigns them to each other. Like a giant universal computer, He knows exactly what combination of energies, in exactly what context, would do the most to further God’s plan for salvation. No meetings are accidental. “Those who are to meet will meet, because together they have the potential for a holy relationship.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“If they treat us with fear, we are to see their behavior as a call for love.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“It is an act of gracious generosity to accept a person based on what we know to be the truth about them, regardless of whether or not they are in touch with that truth themselves.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“Enlightened people don’t have anything we don’t have. They have perfect love inside, and so do we. The difference is that they don’t have anything else.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“But the Holy Spirit is a force of consciousness within us that “delivers us from Hell,” or fear, whenever we consciously ask Him to, working with us on the Causal level, transforming our thoughts from fear to love.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“There’s a biblical story where Jesus says we can build our house on sand or we can build it on rock. Our house is our emotional stability. When it is built on sand, then the winds and rain can tear it down. One disappointing phone call and we crumble; one storm and the house falls down. When our house is built on rock, then it is sturdy and strong and the storms can’t destroy it.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“love requires a different kind of “seeing” than we’re used to—a different kind of knowing or thinking. Love is the intuitive knowledge of our hearts. It’s a “world beyond”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“We came here to co-create with God by extending love. Life spent with any other purpose in mind is meaningless, contrary to our nature, and ultimately painful.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“The wicked stepmother, which is the ego, can put the Sleeping Beauty or Christ within us to sleep, but she can never destroy it. What is created by God is indestructible.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“anymore, you consider the possibility that there might be a better way. That’s when your head cracks open and God comes in.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“If I’m convinced that I’m not good enough, I will have a difficult time accepting someone into my life who thinks I am. It’s the Groucho Marx syndrome of not wanting to like anyone who would want me in their club. The only way that I can accept someone’s finding me wonderful, is if I find myself wonderful. But to the ego, self-acceptance is death.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“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.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“the Holy Spirit is within us to do the impossible.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“People are not perfect—that is, they do not yet express externally their internal perfection.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“The love in one of us is the love in all of us. ‘There’s actually no place where God stops and you start,’ and no place where you stop and I start. Love is energy, an infinite continuum. Your mind extends into mine and into everyone else’s. It doesn’t stay enclosed within your body.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“Christ refers to the common thread of divine love that is the core and essence of every human mind.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“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.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“An ancient memory of this love haunts all of us all the time, and beckons us to return.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“Only infinite patience produces immediate results.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“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.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles

“When Michelangelo was asked how he created a piece of sculpture, he answered that the statue already existed within the marble. God Himself had created the Pieta, David, Moses. Michelangelo’s job, as he saw it, was to get rid of the excess marble that surrounded God’s creation. So it is with you. The perfect you isn’t something you need to create, because God already created it. The perfect you is the love within you. Your job is to allow the Holy Spirit to remove the fearful thinking that surrounds your perfect self, just as excess marble surrounded Michelangelo’s perfect statue.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“Before the Prince can save the damsel in distress, he has to slay the dragons that surround her castle. So do we all. Those dragons are our demons, our wounds, our egos, our brilliant ways of denying love to ourselves and others. The ego’s patterns have to be rooted out, detoxed from our system, before the pure love within us can have a chance to come forth.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“It’s easy to forgive people who have never done anything to make us angry. People who do make us angry, however, are our most important teachers. They indicate the limits to our capacity for forgiveness.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“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.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“In order to escape the illusion and find inner peace, remember that only love in a situation is real.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“Very few of us were taught that we’re essentially good.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love