A Return to Love Quotes

“Love in your mind produces love in your life. This is the meaning of Heaven.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

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

“Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“All of a sudden, you’re not too proud to ask for help. That’s what it means to surrender to God.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“Love merely becomes clouded over, or surrounded by mental mists.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“Hatred is the spiritual malignancy of our species”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
― Marianne Williamson (Author), A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“Forgiveness is a full time job, and sometimes very difficult. Few of us always succeed, yet making the effort is our most noble calling. It is the world’s only real chance to begin again. A radical forgiveness is a complete letting go of the past, in any personal relationship, as well as in any collective drama.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“Your job is to allow the Holy Spirit to remove the fearful thinking that surrounds your perfect self,”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“ambitious tension actually limits our ability to succeed because it keeps us in a state of contraction, emotionally and physically.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self. If you don’t already believe it yourself, another person cannot convince you you’re okay.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“Debo haber decidido equivocadamente porque no estoy en paz. Yo mismo tomé esa decisión, por lo tanto, puedo tomar otra. Quiero tomar otra decisión porque deseo estar en paz. No me siento culpable porque el Espíritu Santo, si se lo permito, desvanecerá todas las consecuencias de mi decisión equivocada. Elijo permitírselo, al dejar que Él decida en favor de Dios por mí.»”
― Marianne Williamson, Volver al amor (Vintage)

“Rage turned outward is called rage. Rage turned inward is called ulcers and cancer and things like that. The unhealthiest thing you can do with anger is to deny you have it.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“Women say to me sometimes, “Marianne, why do I always meet emotionally abusive men?” My answer is usually the following: “The problem is not that you met him—the problem is that you gave him your number.” The problem, in other words, is not that we attract a certain kind of person, but rather that we are attracted to a certain kind of person. Someone who is distant emotionally might remind us, for instance, of one or both of our parents. “His energy is distant and subtly disapproving—I must be home.” The problem, then, is not just that we are offered pain, but that we are comfortable with that pain. It’s what we have always known.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“What we give to others, we give to ourselves. What we withhold from others, we withhold from ourselves. In any moment when we choose fear instead of love, we deny ourselves the experience of Paradise.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“Examining the past can help clarify many of our problems, but healing doesn’t occur in the past. It occurs in the present. There is practically a mania these days for blaming the events of our childhood for our current despair. What the ego doesn’t want us to see is that our pain doesn’t come from the love we weren’t given in the past, but from the love we ourselves aren’t giving in the present.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“To surrender to God means to let go and just love. By affirming that love is our priority in a situation, we actualize the power of God. This is not metaphor; it’s fact. We literally use our minds to co-create with Him. Through a mental decision—a conscious recognition of love’s importance and our willingness to experience it—we “call on a higher power.” We set aside our normal mental habit patterns and allow them to be superseded by a different, gentler mode of perception. That is what it means to let a power greater than we are direct our lives.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“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"

“we’re going to set any goal, let us set the goal of being healed of the belief that God is fear instead of love”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“What we mentally refuse to permit others, we refuse ourselves. What we bless in others, we draw to us.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“We heal through noticing, and prayer.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

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

“It's unbelievable how tenaciously we cling to what we've prayed to be released from.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“The universe provides us with a clean slate in every moment; God's creation holds nothing against us.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

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

“God has lit your mind Himself, and keeps your mind lit by His Light because His Light is what your mind is.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“I didn’t know that a miracle is just a shift in perception”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“Love is within us. It cannot be destroyed, but can only be hidden.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“Sometimes, in fact, it was the people who loved us the most who felt it was their responsibility to train us to struggle.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“Sometimes it takes the knife that emotionally pierces our heart, to pierce the walls that lie in front of it.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love