A Return to Love Quotes

“accept the Christ within” means, “I accept the beauty within me as who I really am. I am not my weakness. I am not my anger. I am not my small-mindedness. I am much, much more. And I am willing to be reminded of who I really am.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“Thought is Cause; experience is Effect. If you don’t like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking. Love in your mind produces love in your life. This is the meaning of Heaven. Fear in your mind produces fear in your life. This is the meaning of hell. A shift in how we think about life produces a shift in how we experience it.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“Love isn’t material. It’s energy. It’s the feeling in a room, a situation, a person. Money can’t buy it. Sex doesn’t guarantee it. It has nothing at all to do with the physical world, but it can be expressed nonetheless. We experience it as kindness, giving, mercy, compassion, peace, joy, acceptance, non-judgment, joining, and intimacy.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“Events are always in flux.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“There have been times in my life—and they still happen today, though they’re more the exception now than the rule—when I have felt as though sadness would overwhelm me. Something didn’t turn out the way I wanted it to, or I was in conflict with someone, or I was afraid of what might or might not happen in the future.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“Fear is our shared lovelessness, our individual and collective hells. It’s a world that seems to press on us from within and without, giving constant false testimony to the meaninglessness of love. When fear is expressed, we recognize it as anger, abuse, disease, pain, greed, addiction, selfishness, obsession, corruption, violence, and war.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“To trust in the force that moves the universe is faith. Faith isn’t blind, it’s visionary. Faith is believing that the universe is on our side, and that the universe knows what it’s doing. Faith is a psychological awareness of an unfolding force for good, constantly at work in all dimensions. Our attempts to direct this force only interferes with it. Our willingness to relax into it allows it to work on our behalf.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“Sometimes people think that calling on God means inviting a force into our lives that will make everything rosy. The truth is, it means inviting everything into our lives that will force us to grow—and growth can be messy. The purpose of life is to grow into our perfection. Once we call on God, everything that could anger us is on the way. Why? Because the place where we go into anger instead of love, is our wall. 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”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“When we surrender to God, we surrender to something bigger than ourselves—to a universe that knows what it’s doing. When we stop trying to control events, they fall into a natural order, an order that works.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“Our only job in every situation is to merely let go of our resistance to love.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

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

“When we pollute the oceans or destroy plant life, we are destroying our support system and so are destroying ourselves.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“In accepting the Atonement, the correction of our perceptions, we are returned to who we really are. Our true, purely loving self can never be uncreated. All illusions will be undone. Although experiences such as childhood trauma can lead us to deviate from our true nature, the truth itself is held in trust for us by the Holy Spirit until we choose to return.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“«Dios amado, te entrego esta situación. Que sea usada para tus propósitos. Sólo te pido que mi corazón esté abierto para dar y recibir amor. Que todos los resultados se produzcan de acuerdo con tu voluntad. Amén».”
― Marianne Williamson, Volver al amor (Vintage)

“Someone with whom we have a lifetime’s worth of lessons to learn is someone whose presence in our lives forces us to grow.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“We’re not being stopped by something on the outside, but by something on the inside.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“Dear God, my desire, my priority is inner peace. I want the experience of love. I don’t know what would bring that to me. I leave the results of this situation in your hands. I trust your will. May your will be done. Amen.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“Decir que estamos en la tierra para servir a Dios significa que estamos en la tierra para amar.”
― Marianne Williamson, Volver al amor (Vintage)

“Love in your mind produces love in your life. This is the meaning of heaven.
Fear in your mind produces fear in your life. This is the meaning of hell.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. The world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world. Surrender means the decision to stop fighting the world, and to start loving it instead. It is a gentle liberation from pain. But liberation isn’t about breaking out of anything; ‘it’s a gentle melting into who we really are.’ We let down our armor,”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“Christmas is a symbol of change. The meaning of Christmas is the birth of a new self, mothered by our humanness and fathered by God. Mary symbolizes the feminine within us all, who is impregnated by spirit. Her function is to say yes, I will, I receive, I will not abort this process, I accept with humility my holy function. The child born from this mystical conception is the Christ within us all. The angels awakened Mary in the middle of the night and told her to meet them on the roof. “The middle of the night” symbolizes our darkness, our confusion, our despair. “Come onto the roof” means turn off the television, sober up, read better books, meditate, and pray. The angels are the thoughts of God. We can only hear them in a pure mental atmosphere. Most of us have heard the angels beckon us to the rooftop already. Otherwise, we would not be reading books like this one. What happens at this point is that we are given the opportunity, the challenge, to accept God’s spirit, to allow His seed into our mystical body. We shall, if we agree to, allow our hearts to be a womb for the Christ child, a haven in which He can grow in fullness and prepare for earthly birth. God has chosen that His Son be born through each of us.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“The Course admonishes us to beware the danger of a hidden belief. A hidden belief that many of us hold is that there is something wrong with being too happy. The ego’s religious dogma hasn’t helped. Suffering has been glorified. People have focused on the crucifixion more than the resurrection. But crucifixion without the resurrection is a meaningless symbol. Crucifixion is the energy pattern of fear, the manifestation of a closed heart. Resurrection is the reversal of that pattern, brought about by a shift in thought from fear to love...“During the time of the darkest night,” says the Talmud, “act as if the morning has already come.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“Cuando nos entregamos a Dios, nos desprendemos de nuestro apego a la forma en que suceden las cosas afuera y empezamos a preocuparnos más por lo que pasa en nuestro interior.”
― Marianne Williamson, Volver al amor (Vintage)

“Por mediación de diversas técnicas terapéuticas, llegué a estar muy al tanto de mis propias neurosis, pero eso no necesariamente las exorcizaba.”
― Marianne Williamson, Volver al amor (Vintage)

“A Course in Miracles says that the most effective way to teach a child is not by saying ‘Don’t do that,’ but ‘Do this.’ We don’t reach the light through endless analysis of the dark. We reach the light by choosing the light. Light means understanding. Through understanding, we are healed.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“The choice to be used as an instrument of love, right here, right now, is a choice for personal empowerment.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“The only point where eternity meets time is in the present.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“According to the laws of evolution, a species develops in a certain direction until that development is no longer well adapted for survival. At that point, a mutation occurs. Although the mutation doesn’t represent the majority of the species, it represents the line of evolution better adapted for the species’ survival. The descendants of the mutation are then the ones to survive.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“Love is energy.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“Until your knees finally hit the floor, you’re just playing at life, and on some level you’re scared because you know you’re just playing. The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It’s when it begins.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love