Marianne Quotes

Unless we can be like children, we can't be happy.

Every time we open our hearts, we create the space for a global alternative.

Attack thoughts towards others are attack thoughts towards ourselves.

I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering.

There are people today who look to fear to take us out of fear. But I believe that there are many, many more people who would look to love.

King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are.

I embrace each moment as an opportunity for a miracle.

People don't live in Los Angeles because we are tied to the same old, same old. We live in Los Angeles because of the intoxicating energy of new beginnings that permeate our city.

There is no amount of money, time or energy too great to spend on our children. They are our angels, our future. In failing them, we are failing ourselves.

All manifestation of fear is a reflection of the fact that humanity has forgotten its spiritual identity. In beginning to remember it, we put fear on notice that its days are numbered.

Only love can bring us peace. And the experience of love is a choice we make, a mental decision to see love as the only real purpose and value in any situation.

The mystical journey drives us into ourselves, to a sacred flame at our center.

I trust life not because I trust the world, but because I trust the God who lives in my heart.

God is a peaceful ground of being. He is the energy of nonviolence. To ask Him to help is to ask Him to turn us into profoundly peaceful people.

If we do not like what we see in the world, we must face what we don't like in ourselves. As we change, the world will change with us.

Every moment is an invitation to live out of your weakness or to live out of your strength.

Our internal state determines our experience of our lives; our experiences do not determine our internal state.

Nervous breakdowns can be highly underrated methods of spiritual transformation.

Organized religious institutions are in for a huge transformation, for the simple reason that people have become genuinely religious in spite of them.

We find our happiness to the extent to which we use our minds to bless the world, for that is the natural use of the mind. It is the reason we were born.

We're often afraid of looking at our shadow because we want to avoid the shame or embarrassment that comes along with admitting mistakes.

Since our peace lies in loving as God loves, we must strive to love everyone. The only love that completes us is the love of God, and the love of God is the love of everyone.

Make a room for love and it always comes. Make a nest for love and it always settles. Make a home for the beloved and the beloved with always find their way there

We're all assigned a piece of the garden, a corner of the universe that is ours to transform.

When we think with love, we are literally co-creating with God.

Yes, whatever happened, happened; but what happens now is up to you. You can respond from ego, ensuring pain, or you can respond from spirit, ensuring a miracle.

Where there is peace, there cannot be chaos; the two cannot coexist at the same time.

Making our goal anything other than peace is emotionally self-destructive.

The desire for transcendence is intimately connected with the desire for creativity. It is just as essential to who and what we are.

Don't go to work to make money; go to work to spread joy.

What the ego doesn't want us to see is that our pain doesn't come from the love we weren't given in the past, but from the love we ourselves aren't giving in the present.

Accepting people as they are has the miraculous effect of helping them improve. Acceptance doesn't prohibit growth; rather, it fosters it.

Instead of praying: 'Dear God, bring me someone fabulous,' try: 'Dear God, make me into someone fabulous.'

If you want to attract the coolest man in the world become the coolest woman in the world.

The outer kingdom is not our real home. The inner kingdom is our everything.

You can live in your total potential creative capacity in an instant-with your heart open to give and receive love.

Physical circumstances have very little to do with either our capacity to love or to attract love.

I've never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching.

In that Holy Place where you tell Him everything and he understands; there are angels who stand in wait to hear his every command. How may they serve you and increase your joy?

Every ending is a new beginning. Through the grace of God, we can always start again. (Page 120.)

Angels are thoughts of God--to pray to an angel is to look to a level of pure thinking, divine thinking, and to ask that it replace our thoughts of fear. (Page 27.)

The love that saves us is not a love that might come to us in the future, but rather the love we can give to whomever is around us right now.

Thought that is no longer limited, brings experience that is no longer limited

Imagine that anything is possible, and name the most amazing thing that could happen in 2013.

The only feelings you really need to fear are those you ignore.

Who we are, not just the services and products we provide, creates money.

What emerges from the silence is the deafening sound of an old world disintegrating.

Love is insistent on its own continuation. Every fraction of a second, someone somewhere falls in love, a former enemy becomes a friend, and a newborn baby is born into the world.

We are always pregnant with a truer version of ourselves.

Without nourishing our own souls, we can't nourish the world, for we cannot give what we do not have. As we attend to our souls, we emanate invisibly and involuntarily the light we have received.