Marianne Quotes

It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.

Yes, we see that there are problems in the world. But we believe in a universal force that, when activated by the human heart, has the power to make all things right.

So it is that a new politics centers around the arousal of that power, using prayer and meditation to create a force field of transformation.

The concept of a divine, or 'Christ'-mind, is the idea that, at our core, we are not just identical, but actually the same being.

The purpose of prayer is the alignment of the mind with the thoughts and the will of God.

The miracle-minded perception would be to make happiness itself our goal and to relinquish the thought that we know what that would look like.

Each time we consider a miracle impossible, or assume that we ourselves are not capable of working it, then we're choosing not to take flight.

The way I see it, we teach our children through modeling.

Ultimately, my daughter is not going to learn from what I do, not from what I say. For better or for worse. I see that everyday.

I believe we are shown the path that is right as soon as we ask for it. Then we must live in the world and in some way express what we have learned.

We are likely to feel better when we go to bed tonight if we have an internal sense that we spent our lives meaningfully today.

Experience is necessary for us to grow.

Life is hard enough, you don't have to embellish the drama!

I think optimism is a moral imperative.

I think the vast majority of Americans would have supported military action to stop the second plane from hitting the World Trade Center, if that had been possible. I would have been among them.

The human race is almost addicted to war. It's like we just can't stop.

Generation after generation can't just be loaded with more and more nuclear weapons and not ultimately dance to that music.

The only antidote to chaos is peace itself.

The goal of the spiritual activist is to find inner peace even in externally chaotic circumstances.

Humanity's mission is to find a peace that lies beyond the veil - a peace that is not of this world. The peace that is not of this world is not dependent on human circumstances.

I have hope, because I believe in miracles.

I believe the universe presents more options to a more loving mind.

I believe there is an evolutionary impulse toward good that is etched on every human heart. It is placed there by the hand of God.

I believe the human race is ready to make a quantum leap forward spiritually and morally.

I see the universe as naturally and infinitely self-correcting.

America is a great country, and we've done a lot of good in the world. But we are a collection of people, not saints. We have our own sins to atone for.

It's soul force that removed the English from India. It's soul force that brought down the Berlin Wall. It's soul force that gave life to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle for civil rights.

Sometimes we think, "We're the only people who see it this way," but that's really not the case.

We need love - an awesome love grounded in the evolutionary potential for life on Earth - to become the organizing principle for human society.

I am a student of universal spiritual principles, and I read theology and spiritual writings, so my grasp of basic spiritual principles is fairly good.

I think you have to grieve the loss of youth before you can claim the joy on the other side of it.

Sometimes you are lifted up to the mountaintop as a gift from the universe, so you can see what is possible. Then you are put down back at the bottom: Now you have to earn it for yourself.

I think that every moment you succumb to cynicism, you're taking energy away from change.

When somebody comes up to you and shows you yellow underlining of something you wrote, that's such a high. It's a connection to others.

The problem with most intimate relationships is that they are not romantic. They do not involve a deeper knowing, and thus there is diminished possibility of sacred, transformative sharing.

To be truly seen and understood - in all our innocence and glory and yes, our brokenness, too - is to be delivered into the spiritual ethers where both seen and seer are healed.

Real love is comforting, to be sure, but not always at first.

To become romantic artists, we must pierce the armor that hides our hearts, and the piercing is not comfortable.

We arrogantly assume that the nervous system doesn't really need to be coaxed into romance. That romance comes from some other place.

Because our consciousness is tied to the physical manifestation of reality, we are tied to the belief in separation.

To the extent to which we believe in this world, we are heir to the laws which rule this place.

If we come to see that this world does not have the final word, then we open our mind and therefore our entire lives to experience the possibility of infinite possibilities.

When many people think of "new age" they think of crystals and purple decals and ceramic angels in people's windows and a kind of fuzzy thinking - which is abhorrent to a serious person.

I think it's unfortunate how many people today try to build up their own careers by denigrating the work of others.

The fact that the commercial success of my books has allowed me to buy a house for myself and my daughter I think is a lovely thing. I don't think there is anything wrong with that.

I don't think of myself as a very famous person, but the modicum of celebrity that I've had has not been a positive experience for me at all.

I don't think that my twenties were any more dramatic than those of most people I know. I was never that bad and I never became that good.

My story has been the story of my generation.

If there is anything interesting about my story it's the fact that it's not unique at all. I feel that I have been through what almost everyone I know has - a slow and gradual maturation process.

Pleasure can be used to enslave a people just as effectively as pain.