K.D. Williamson Quotes
The purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us.
You can live your life out of a circumstance or you can live your life out of a vision.
Imagine the most outrageously positive possibility for your life, claim it, and consider it done.
The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one two things: either love, or a call for love.
Do what you love. Do what makes your heart sing. And NEVER do it for the money, Go to work to spread joy.
Today is a day for sober and mature reflection, not glee. Mindless celebration is both spiritually inappropriate and politically naive.
Miracles are happening all the time, but if your eyes aren't open and your ears aren't open and your mind's not open and your heart's not open - then even though the miracles are there - you're not!
Whatever we put out, it's coming back to us. The universe keeps a perfect set of books.
Think of the most amazing thing you could possibly do with your life. Then say out loud, 'YES.'
Those among us who have achieved the most have achieved only a fraction of what ALL of us are capable of. You haven't even begun to scratch the surface!
We need more than new policies. We need a new worldview, and a new bottom line. We need to replace economic values as our ordering principle, with humanitarian values as our ordering principle.
The biggest problem is our lack of "response-ability." That’s what happens when money rather than love is the bottom line. People act like idiots.
I think we all need to be looking to the better angels of our own selves. We don't need to be looking for great people so much as becoming great people.
Once you reach a certain age, you're either slowly dying or slowly being reborn. I want to choose the latter.
Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close.
Love is not neutral. It takes a stand. It is a commitment to the attainment of the conditions of peace for everyone involved in a situation.
The power to be at peace - not because of anything your physical senses perceive, and sometimes in spite of what your physical senses perceive - is the power to help heal this world miraculously.
No true search for enlightenment ignores the suffering of other sentient beings. Ever. We simply need to create a way to address that suffering while remaining in a blissful center.
What is happening today is that there are millions of children who are not lifted up to the first rung of the ladder. Then they are condemned when they don't know how to climb from there.
I believe that the truth with a capital T is at the center of all the great religious teachings.
As you get older, you have more and more layers of experience to forgive, more layers of heartbreak, more layers of what you might think of as failure.
When a woman falls in love with the magnificent possibilities within herself, the forces that would limit those possibilities hold less and less sway over her.
I remember sitting at the end of my mum's bed being fascinated by her ritual of getting dressed. It was a very methodical and considered process. I suppose you could say she was my first real muse.
The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best that is in us. It is only through our own personal awakening that the world can be awakened. We cannot give what we do not have.
You will fear the darkness only to the extent that you yourself are not providing light.
The last thing we should do is allow ourselves to be infantilized by a counterfeit version of enlightenment.
Fear is not life-giving enough to sustain itself. We can move in the direction of fear only so long before it brings us to our knees, or to our end.
I feel that the social revolution of the sixties is like a revolving door that came our way, and then left. It's back again.
What a Beethoven, Shakespeare or Picasso has done is not create something, so much as they have accessed that place within themselves from which they could express that which has been created by God.
Anyone who is speaking of a greater compassion, a greater humanitarian concern, is a leader paving the path we all need to follow.
People who are meditating every day and involved in a serious spiritual practice don't usually wake up in the morning and want to rush out to eat a bunch of junk food.
We need to change society's ordering principle from economic to humanitarian values, from money as the bottom line to love as the bottom line.
I'm not a doom-and-gloom person. But I think there is a difference between transcendence and denial, and much of the Western world is in major denial today.
I don't think making love the new bottom line is naïve; I believe that thinking we can survive the next hundred years doing anything less, is naïve.
Given how deeply the ways of war have penetrated our collective consciousness, it will take spiritual power to turn the issue around.
If you think humanity can get itself out of all this mess without divine help, then you're not being hopeful - you're hallucinating.
Political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks tenderness. It lacks poetry. It doesn't nurture. It doesn't love. And without those things, a woman's soul is bereft.