Marianne Quotes

The spiritual journey has to do with learning to think more deeply and take as long a time as we need. That's the path to wisdom.

The only thing we have to give to the world is our own grasp on it.

As you get older, life gets harder if you're not applying spiritual truths.

The universe is not only self-organizing, it is also self-correcting.

Think of your career as your ministry. Make your work an expression of love in service to mankind.

Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse.

The number one root of all illness, as we know, is stress

In all the huge and amazing and infinitely varied world--there is only one you.

Emmet Fox was one of the world's greatest metaphysical teachers. His works have contributed profoundly to the spiritual understanding of millions of people, including myself.

We love purely when we release other people to be who they are.

To forgive is merely to remember only the loving thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you. All the rest must be forgotten.

By bringing the past into the present, we create a future just like the past. By letting the past go, we make room for miracles.

There is no peace without forgiveness.

The present moment, if you think about it, is the only time there is. No matter what time it is, it is always NOW!

You are free to experience life negatively or positively, and the choice you make determines whether you are at cause, or at effect, of the life you are living.

Sadness is just a place on the map. Don't try to avoid it, resist it or escape through substances. Settle it, allow it, and it will go.

Problems come about when we try to direct the flow of the universe rather than allow it to reveal its own design. Inherent in that design is a love for all living things.

The issue is not whether or not you have that power, the issue is whether or not you use it.

Happiness is a decision I must make.

Know that there's enough room for everyone to be passionate, creative & successful. In fact, there's more than room for everyone; there is a need for everyone.

You are emerging from the cocoon of your former self. There are no limits to the extent of the transformation that's possible for you.

Often miracles are happening right in front of our eyes, but we think they should look different, so we miss them though they're right there.

Spend the next few days preparing for the year ahead: Forgive everyone, let go of everything, let God take charge. Amen.

Whomever it is you were born to be, whatever your soul was coded to accomplish, whatever lessons you were born to learn, now is the time to get serious and get going.

Midlife is not the time to disenchant ourselves. It's a time to turn on all our magic in full force.

Our deepest human need is not material at all. Our deepest need is to be seen.

I think those of us on a spiritual journey can help create a new conversation, a new America, and a new world.

I think moral outrage is born not of anger but of love. It comes from the highest in us, not from a low-level sense of anger or cynicism.

I think we're ripe for social revolution now. There is the necessary yearning, and the necessary, or at least incipient, outrage. And there is an inchoate knowing that all is not right.

When the heart is pierced, there is pain, yes, but also an invitation to a greater becoming.

My hope is that I'm getting better and wiser. With every book, I have more of myself to pour onto the page.

A hero is someone who stands in the community and speaks their hopes and speaks their passion. That's almost an act of heroism nowadays because higher consciousness is so trivialized.

Even though modern life in many ways is nothing short of exhausting, we need to take responsibility for what is necessary to combat the stress and exhaustion of modern life.

To me, liberation doesn't mean that I can think just like a man. Real liberation means that I can think, act, and be like a woman and receive equal respect, honor, and compensation.

The entire world would feel the vibration if America returned to its heart.

I can't say what most people are doing. I can only say what I am doing.

Hopefully, I will emerge more shining. If I have that good fortune, if I am blessed in that way - and I do feel I am in the middle of the blessing - then I have faith my service will be greater.

We are living at an extraordinary time in human history. And for many of us things are great. Things are great for me.

The fact is, there are Fortune 500 companies that have been founded during recessions.

We are here to repair the world. I grew up thinking that was what everybody was trying to do.

I think that's what we all want on this earth - to feel that at some level we have connected with other human beings.

Once we truly understand that God's will is that we be happy, we no longer feel the need to ask for anything other than that God's will be done.

Relationships never end, because they're of the mind; only bodies can separate. When you're missing someone, know it just means that on a soul level they've come to visit.

These are very serious times, and serious people need to be doing some serious thinking.

The U.S. incarcerates more of its people than any nation in the world, or any nation in history.

We must seek to be intellectually inclusive, just as we seek to be culturally inclusive. Ideas come and go - that's what makes a free society so vital.

We need more than a new politics; what we need is a new worldview. We need a fundamentally different bottom line.

We need to shift from an economic to a humanitarian organizing principle for human civilization. And women, en masse, should be saying so.

Our challenge is to not look away, but rather to transform the field; to create a new political conversation, our own conversation, out of which we can speak our truth in our own way.

To trust in the force that moves the universe is faith. Faith isn't blind, it's visionary.