Marianne Quotes

Be the most wonderful expression of you that you're capable of.

I think daily life is where the lessons come in - that's where the tests and the growth come in.

The issue is that we, with our fears, our attacks, our judgments, our blame, and our constant emphasis on the realm of the body rather than the realm of love, eclipse the experience of true love.

Motherly love - putting the care of children before every other consideration - is the ultimate intelligence of nature.

We shouldn’t come up with a pseudo-spiritual excuse for turning away from the pain of the world.

Forgiveness is 'selective remembering'--a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go.

Dear God, I surrender this thought to you, for I would see the miracle that lies behind it. Amen.

Lives with no more sense of spiritual meaning than that provided by shopping malls, ordinary television, and stagnant workplaces are barren lives indeed. Spirituality enriches culture.

The role of a leader is not to rule over other people, but to hold a space for their own genius.

You've committed no sins, just mistakes.

The issue of spiritual power is to meet the limited mortal circumstance with unlimited thought.

Higher thought forms trump lower ones. In the presence of a high frequency of human consciousness, all lower thought forms ultimately drop of their own dead weight.

People tend to have a government that reflects the level of consciousness of the majority of people who voted.

What I think about you, I will not be able to escape thinking about myself, and what I do to you, I will not be able to escape experiencing myself.

We don't need to fight the forces of chaos so much as we need to restore and revitalize the forces of peace.

Many people are despairing of the possibility of finding love. And some of the people who are despairing the most are in their thirties and forties and looking just great.

There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people

Achievement doesn't come from what we do, but from who we are. Our worldly power results from our personal power. Our career is an extension of our personality.

A holy relationship is where the brokenness and wounds of the world are not escaped so much as as transformed by love, not hidden from but risen above.

Sometimes sadness is appropriate. Not something to run from, not something to numb...just something to feel.

You're not to wallow, but if you don't process your regrets, then they remain emotional underground toxins.

I know for a fact that Heaven and Hell are here on Earth.

I do have a strong sense of God. It's impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.

I never like photos of myself in the beginning. I live with them for three months, put them in a drawer, take them out and look again. I hate the way I look, but of course it's really not that bad.

When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.

In a poem the words should be as pleasing to the ear as the meaning is to the mind.

The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.

Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.

So wary as to disappear for centuries and reappear but never caught, the unicorn has been preserved by an unmatched device wrought like the work of expert blacksmiths.

Victory won't come to me unless I go to it; a grape tendril ties a knot in knots till knotted thirty times

Spring is the only revolutionary whose revolution has succeeded.

I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.

Asking anyone what she or he is reading is a necessary part of conversation, exchanging news. So I take recommendations from friends - and I always pass along a book I've loved.

Carrying the past in to the present, we program the future to continue the past. Letting go the past in the present, we free the future to be something else.

Never think you can separate who you are from what you're doing.

The deepest feelings always show itself in silence.

Next time you're about to judge someone, attempt to understand them instead.

Forgiving the past means remembering the love there, and releasing all the rest as the illusion that it really was.

Become more accepting. With every interaction, surrender any tendency to judge another person. Pray for a more accepting heart.

Some people think it's naive to think we can make love our new bottom line. What I believe is naive is thinking human civilization as we know it will survive another two hundred years if we do not.

Sobriety itself is today's high, for it is ultimately in the most centered consciousness that we find our power to transcend the world.

I think the greatest gift we can give our children is to show them that devotion to God's purposes - love for all beings - is the center of all right living.

When we surrender to God, we let go of our attachment to how things happen on the outside, and we become more concerned with what happens on the inside.

The world is in trouble. Many have prayed. God sent help. God sent you.

Great people are not people who have never fallen down. Greatness has to do with how you get back up.

It's the beginning of your day. You awake and look around you, feeling perhaps a joyful expectation, or perhaps an awful dread. No matter which, remember this: God loves you with an infinite love.

The only thing missing in any situation is that in which you are not giving

Gender or skin color does not of itself determine the nature of a person's thinking.

Do not fear. Look beyond what's dying to what's being born.

Cynicism is just an excuse for not helping.