Marianne Quotes
Environmentally, the planet will not sustain the kind of abuse it receives at our hands.
The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one two things: either love, or a call for love.
You think you know someone by looking at his face but what can one face say about the thousand thoughts behind those eyes.
Painful experiences are not meant to linger. They are meant to teach us what they need to teach us, and then dissolve.
No matter what is happening in the world of appearances, beyond the veil of illusion there is love and only Love.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
People who hate often do so with great conviction. What we need are more people who love with conviction.
You get to the point where you realize that unless you, yourself, become more of the change, you can't create too much change.
I think the violence in the world right now is being reflected inside people. And I also believe the violence inside people is being reflected in the world.
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.
Anyone who is speaking of a greater compassion, a greater humanitarian concern, is a leader paving the path we all need to follow.
If you think humanity can get itself out of all this mess without divine help, then you're not being hopeful - you're hallucinating.
The voices of fear are so loud today. The voices of love should never shout, but neither should they whisper - not at a time like this.
Given how deeply the ways of war have penetrated our collective consciousness, it will take spiritual power to turn the issue around.
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.
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.
Whatever we put out, it's coming back to us. The universe keeps a perfect set of books.
Choosing joy involves spiritual surrender, and sometimes we would rather hold on to the pain than surrender our egos.
Gandhi said the end is inherent in the means, which means you cannot create any more peace than you yourself have attained. An angry generation will not bring peace.
A Course in Miracles tells us that although 'we think that without the ego, all would be chaos, the opposite is true. Without the ego, all would be love.'
Do what you love. Do what makes your heart sing. And NEVER do it for the money, Go to work to spread joy.
Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.
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.
No company or organization filled with unhappy people will ultimately rise to its highest potential.
When a woman gives birth, two are born: a baby from the womb of its mother and a woman from the womb of her former existence.
Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.
Today is a day for sober and mature reflection, not glee. Mindless celebration is both spiritually inappropriate and politically naive.
