Marianne Quotes

There is an emergent enlightenment appearing today, unique to no particular culture or ethnicity. Anyone who chooses to be, is its conduit.

You must master a new way to think, before you can master a new way to be.

Our prayer is not simply, ‘Dear God, please send me a better job,’ but, ‘Dear God, enable me to see this situation differently, that this area of apparent lack might be healed inside my mind.

In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.

Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time.

Nobody wants to die feeling that they have not sung their song.

I don't think that anyone can age in a conscious way and not experience grief.

Environmentally, the planet will not sustain the kind of abuse it receives at our hands.

Miracles arise from conviction. Be convicted about these things: Miracles can happen. Miracles do happen. Love makes them happen.

I believe that ultimately it all comes down to whether we seek conscious contact with God on a daily basis through prayer and meditation.

When we're in our right minds, we are hopeful. Because the arc of the moral universe does bend toward justice, nature does bend toward healing, and the heart does bend toward love.

Every judgement blocks the light!

You can live your life out of a circumstance or you can live your life out of a vision.

In the past, no one paid any serious attention, even to the existing laws that protect animals.

But beauty itself is not given to us by anyone; it is a power we have within us from the gate, a radiance inside us.

Taking the time to meditate is as important as taking the time to breathe. One pumps oxygen into the body, the other pumps peace into the mind.

I believe verbal felicity is the fruit of ardor, of diligence, and of refusing to be false.

God isn't a noun but a process...a continual, infinitely creative outpouring of love and light onto all living things.

The purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us.

Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.

A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.

Whether we love, or close our hearts to love, is a mental choice we make, every moment of every day.

We will make love an art and we will love like artists.

What we give, we will receive, and what we withhold will be withheld from us.

When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.

I know. And that's what took me so long

In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.

The soul is the truth of who we are.

There is no greater gift to future generations than that we do the work God has asked us to do: love one another, that the world might be made right.

When the wisdom of the heart replaces the chatter of the mind, The power of Love flows forth.

Imagine the most outrageously positive possibility for your life, claim it, and consider it done.

I never 'plan' a stanza. Words cluster like chromosomes, determining the procedure.

We lack faith in *what* exists within us because we lack faith in *Who* exists within us.

One must be as clear as one's natural reticence allows one to be.

Every change is a challenge to become who we really are.

With every thought we think, we either summon or block a miracle.

Think of your work life therefore, not as separate from your spiritual life but as central to your spiritual life. Whatever your business, it is your ministry.

The only way to end a culture of violence is to proactively create a culture of peace.

No one is longing to meet a desperate needy, angry, withholding, controlling person. If your beloved is out there they can't pick up your signals if you're dwelling in those spaces within yourself.

Unconfusion submits its confusion to proof; it's not a Herod's oath that cannot change.

No conventional therapy can release us from a deep and abiding psychic pain. Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world.

The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it.

Desperately seeking something is not what attracts it to us. When we dwell, in deep peace and kindness, whatever would add to our happiness just flows to our door.

This wind is mystical yet tame, and it sings to me.

In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.

It's always a good idea to get yourself a famous, rich, and groovy young man. That's one of the best-known methods of furthering your career.

It is our own thoughts that hold the key to miraculous transformation.