Marianne Quotes
Anybody can be heard. Anyone can express their truths. And communication is possible without the confines of the body.
I feel that as women we've allowed ourselves to be deluded by certain ideas that hold us back, such as the over-glorification of masculine consciousness.
Real liberation for men means that they can explore and integrate their feminine aspects of consciousness.
I also think the women's movement has unintentionally contributed to the dishonoring of motherhood. It happened because we made such a big deal about our right to go out into the world.
Some of the most patriarchal thinkers I know are women. Some of the most feminist thinkers are men.
If I had to choose between a narrow-minded woman or a man who was an enlightened thinker, I would vote for the man.
People involved in the inner journey discover the value of the feminine, the spiritually receptive and inclusive aspect of human consciousness.
For what we engage, we transform. And what we engage with our hearts is transformed forever.
The pain itself is a product or a reflection of how I am interpreting whatever it is that is causing me pain.
I honor my grief. I try to be kinder to myself. I give myself time to move through and to process whatever is making me sad.
If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience.
I can't say that there are "things" that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive.
Once the Western mind was disconnected from its sense of divine responsibility and genuine reverence towards nature, all hell broke loose. And that’s where we are now.
The fate of the world rests on this one thing: our capacity to actualize our spiritual potential, and quickly.
If you allow yourself to deepen with midlife, your experience of everything deepens, including your experience of God.
I don't think of spiritual principle as a struggle. I think of life lived without spiritual principles as a struggle.
Living in this world, under the dominance of the ego mind, is difficult. That's the struggle.
When you understand the law of divine compensation, you realize that in the presence of spiritual consciousness, there is more than enough compensation for any diminishment in materiality.
At midlife, you're pregnant with the best self you can be - someone who has learned enough from both successes and failures to add up to a fine human being.
I don't believe the United States is going through a midlife crisis. The United States is going through an adolescent crisis.
I am trying to be in that alchemical soup of human transformation. I am trying to process, reconcile, forgive, let go, and grieve, when necessary.
I think there is a place where self-awareness becomes self-preoccupation if you don't take what you have discovered and bring it to bear on the conditions of the world.
Life is a constant back-and-forth. We take a breath in and then we breathe out. The same is true for the culture as a whole.
Capitalism has been really good to me. I'm very fortunate: I have written books and my books have sold.
For a society as abundant and as blessed as ours, to have as many disadvantaged children as we have does not bode well for our long-term economic future.
I don't like the tendency on the part of so many people today to think that those who don't agree with them are bad. In fact, I find that very dangerous.
If we had the government we deserved we would have the most righteous government, because we deserve the best - everybody does.
I feel that if your soul was branded by the sixties, you never lost the brand. It's like going into a nightclub and having your hand stamped so that you don't have to come back but you can come back.
The word "politics" comes from the Greek politeia which had to do with the citizenry, not the government.
Anything having to do with what is happening inside people has political significance to me. That is why I like the term "holistic politics."
We need to recognize that part our political problem is that we do not participate effectively, that we suffer from a kind of mental slumber.
There is an increasingly pervasive sense that one age is over and a new one is beginning - in business, in politics, in science, in psychology.
The love is what's left at the end because it's the bedrock, fundamental reality that gets hidden all the time, but never really goes away.
Only God’s thoughts, or love, is actually real. So when we separate ourselves from that love, we’re actually not thinking at all: we’re hallucinating.
I just want to write books or give talks which, if I were in the audience or I were the reader, I would appreciate.
Newtonian physics is over. You don't act on the world to change the world. You realize the world is a projection of your inner self. If you change, the world changes.
Love is all around us all the time. Love is the ethers that we swim in. Love is the amniotic fluid of the soul.
Any time we read a newspaper or take any look at the world around us, we are aware of the cruelty and violence that dominates our world.
The transformation from body identification to spirit identification is the purpose of our lives.
My father was a deeply committed humanitarian. He was a fighter for social justice. He was spirited in the deepest sense.
I had an experience that probably is shared by many parents. When my daughter was born, I felt viscerally connected to generations before and after me in a way that took me by surprise.
The end does not justify the means. If we try to be someone we are not in order to achieve a result, then the result cannot help but be something other than what we intended.
