A Return to Love Quotes

“If we really desire a moral answer to the Holocaust, we do everything in our power to create a world in which it could never happen again. As”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“The other person doesn’t have to consciously join you in the change. ‘Whoever is saner at the time,’ says A Course in Miracles, ‘is to invite the Holy Spirit into a situation.’ It doesn’t matter whether or not another person shares our willingness to let God enter. Everything you need in life already exists inside your head.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“We’re affected by other peoples’ lovelessness only to the extent to which we judge them for it. Otherwise we are invulnerable to the ego, as the Son of God is meant to be.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“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. Salvation”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“Partners are meant to have a priestly role in each other’s lives. They are meant to help each other access the highest parts within themselves.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“We’re not aligned with the Holy Spirit until people can behave in any way they choose to, and our own inner peace isn’t shaken. There”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“I remember spending years of my life so upset about all of the life choices I felt I had available that I never moved. I was paralyzed by all the possibilities. I couldn't figure out which road would lead me to the fulfillment of my potential, this glorious, neurotic myth that lay always just in front of whatever I could manifest now. So I was always too scared to move, and fear of course is the great betrayer of self. The difference between those people living their potential and those who don't is not the amount of potential itself, but the amount of permission they give themselves to live in the present.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

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

“Another miraculous transformation is the shift from a sales mentality to a service mentality. When we're motivated by the desire to sell, we're only looking out for ourselves.  When we're motivated by the desire to serve, we're looking out for others.  Since in the realm of consciousness, we only get to keep what we give away, a service mentality is a far more abundant attitude.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“If we're talented at music, that talent is of god.  If something makes our heart sing, that's god's way of telling us its a contribution he wants us to make.  Sharing our gifts is what makes us happy. We're most powerful and god's power is most apparent on the earth when we're happy. A course in miracles teaches that we are only truly happy when we're doing god's will.  The only thing to be saved from is our own negativity and fear.  The crux of salvation in any area is a shift in our sense of purpose.  That shift is a miracle, as always we consciously ask for it:  'Dear god, please give my life some sense of purpose. use me as an instrument of your peace.  Use my talents and abilities to spread love.  I surrender my job to you. Help me to remember that my real job is to love the world back to health.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“Whether we're forgiving our parents or someone else or ourselves, the laws of mind remain the same.  As we love, we shall be released from pain and as we deny love, we shall remain in pain.  Each of us have different fears and different manifestations of fear,  but all of us are saved by the same technique:  The call to God to save our lives by salvaging our minds.  'Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.  For love is the kingdom and love is the glory and love is the power, forever and forever.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“A Course in Miracles says we think we're going to understand people in order to figure out whether or not they're worthy of our love,  but that actually, until we love them, we can never understand them.  What is not loved is not understood.  We hold ourselves separate from people and wait for them to earn our love, but people deserve our love because of what God created them to be.  As long as we're waiting for them to be anything better, we will constantly be disappointed.  When we choose to join with them through approval and unconditional love, the miracle kicks in for both parties. This is the primary key, the ultimate miracle, in relationships.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“In the Christic tradition, this is the meaning of  'becoming as a little child.'  Little children don't think they know what things mean, in fact, they know they don't know.  They ask someone older and wiser to explain things to them.  We're like children who don't know but think we do.  We're meant to shine.  Look at small children.  They're all so unique before they start trying to be, because they demonstrate the power of genuine humility.  This is also the explanation of 'beginner's luck.' When we go into a situation not knowing the rules, we don't pretend to know how to figure anything out, and we don't know yet what there is to be afraid of.  This releases the mind to create from its own higher power."  ”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“special relationship is a relationship based on fear.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“That’s why the miracle is a shift in our own thinking: the willingness to keep our own heart open, regardless of what’s going on outside us.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“Similarly, if we want to be rid of fear, we cannot fight it but must replace it with love.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“The future is programmed in the present. To let the past go is to remember that in the present, my brother is innocent.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“and seeing that face, touching it and loving it in ourselves and others, is the experience of God. It is our divine humanness. It is the high we all seek.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“The “face of Christ” is the innocence and love behind the masks we all wear,”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“that is real in our past is the love we gave and the love we received.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“It amuses me to think how angry I used to get when people wouldn’t sign my peace petitions.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“because only love is real. It is our function to see through the illusion of guilt, to the innocence that lies beyond. “To forgive is merely to remember only the loving thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you. All”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“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

“only what you have not given can be lacking in any situation.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“Our species is in trouble because we fight too much. We fight ourselves, each other, our planet, and God. Our fear-ridden ways are threatening our survival. A thoroughly loving person is like an evolutionary mutation, manifesting a being that puts love first and thus creates the context in which miracles occur.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“We’re not at the mountaintop until any zone is comfortable. Love isn’t love until it’s unconditional.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don’t yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving. It’s the Holy Spirit’s job to draw our attention to that, and help us move beyond that point.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“In asking the Holy Spirit to help us, we are expressing our willingness to perceive a situation differently. We give up our own interpretations and opinions, and ask that they be replaced by His.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“His correction of our perception is called the Atonement.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“Eastern religions tell us that if we go for God, all that is not authentically ourselves will drop.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love