A Return to Love Quotes

“THE DIVINE MIND “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 said to myself, “Marianne. Next time you’re down on your knees, why don’t you just stay there?”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

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

“The Course teaches that fear is literally a bad dream. It is as though the mind has been split in two; one part stays in touch with love, and the other part veers into fear. Fear manufactures a kind of parallel universe where the unreal seems real,”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“According to A Course in Miracles, this separation from God first happened millions of years ago. But the important revelation, the crux of the Course, is that in reality it never happened at all.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“By affirming that love is our priority in a situation,”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“Love taken seriously is a radical outlook, a major departure from the psychological orientation that rules the world. It is threatening not because it is a small idea, but because it is so huge.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“When we choose to love, or to allow our minds to be one with God, then life is peaceful. When we turn away from love, the pain sets in. And whether we love, or close our hearts to love, is a mental choice we make, every moment of every day.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“As I began to study A Course in Miracles, I discovered the following things: God is the love within us.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“Looking for Mr. Right leads to desperation because there is no Mr. Right. There is no Mr. Right because there is no Mr. Wrong. There is whoever is in front of us, and the perfect lessons to be learned from that person.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“Childishness is when we’re so preoccupied with things that ultimately don’t matter, that we lose our essential connection with things that do.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“everyone we meet will either be our crucifier or our savior, depending on what we choose to be to them.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“universally accepted that children need love, but at what age are people supposed to stop needing it? We never do. We need love in order to live happily, as much as we need oxygen in order to live at all.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“The purpose of a relationship is not for two incomplete people to become one, but rather for two complete people to join together for the greater glory of God.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“If you’re talented at music, that talent is of God. If something makes your heart sing, that’s God’s way of telling you it’s a contribution He wants you 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.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“The Holy Spirit guides us to a different perception of reality: one that is based on love. His correction of our perception is called the Atonement.”
― 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. To the extent that we abandon love, to that extent we will feel it has abandoned us.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“Love is real. It’s an eternal creation and nothing can destroy it. Anything that isn’t love is an illusion. Remember this, and you’ll be at peace.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“And whether we love, or close our hearts to love, is a mental choice we make, every moment of every day.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“God is the love within us. Whether we “follow Him,” or think with love, is entirely up to us. When we choose to love, or to allow our minds to be one with God, then life is peaceful. When we turn away from love, the pain sets in.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“In A Movable Feast, Hemingway writes about writing. He describes the difference between his writing a story, and a story writing itself. When he finds himself writing the story, he knows it’s time to stop for the day. Our life is meant to be a story that mysteriously writes itself, and”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“How could Leonardo da Vinci not have painted? How could Shakespeare not have written? In Letters to a Young Poet, Rilke tells a young writer to write only if he has to. We are to do what there is a deep psychological and emotional imperative for us to do. That’s our point of power, the source of our brilliance. Our power is not rationally or willfully called forth. It’s a divine dispensation, an act of grace.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“Think success and you’ll get it, ”Expect to fail and you will,” I read.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“We overvalue what we perceive with our physical senses, and undervalue what we know to be true in our hearts.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“The spiritual journey is the relinquishment—or unlearning—of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts. Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“Psychotherapy: Purpose, Process and Practice says that at their peak, religion and psychotherapy become one. They both represent the relationship between thought and experience, and are used by the Holy Spirit to celebrate one of the most glorious human potentials: our capacity to change.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“A miracle is a shift in thinking from what we might have done in the past or should be doing in the future, to what we feel free to do right here, right now. A miracle is a release from internal bondage. Our capacity for brilliance is equal to our capacity to forget the past and forget the future. That’s why little children are brilliant. They don’t remember the past, and they don’t relate to the future. Be us as little children, that the world might finally grow up.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“Why? Because the world as it is, is tough, and they wanted us to make good. We had to become as crazy as the world is, or we would never fit in here. We had to achieve, make the grade, get into Harvard. What’s strange is that we didn’t learn discipline from that perspective, so much as a weird displacement of our sense of power away from ourselves and onto external sources. What we lost was a sense of our own power. And what we learned was fear, fear that we weren’t good enough, just the way we are.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love