Marianne Quotes

People don't usually come see me because things are going well.

We think that because we dwell inside our bodies that we are separate from other people who dwell inside theirs.

At the highest level of awareness, the greatest gift given and received when you give someone flowers, is the joy of living a life based on love.

The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life.

The world as it is perceived by most people, is a world of finite resources.

If you allow your perceptions to be dominated by a status-quo perspective these thought forms create a network of status-quo mental habit patterns.

By the time something reaches the cover of Time magazine, it's old news anyway.

Our most meaningful conversations go on late at night when we're on the phone with our friends or talking to our lovers.

Citizens should be looked to for what they can give of their own nobility, virtue, creative thinking, passion, and natural talent for community building and relating to others.

The sense of endings as well as beginnings in the air is now so obvious in so many dimensions of our experience that a critical mass has been reached.

People sometimes see an image and without knowing the surrounding patterns draw false conclusions.

I'm not bowled over by how different all the world's religions are - I'm bowled over by how similar they are.

In the Kabbala, it says that we receive the light in order to impart the light, and thus we repair the world.

You receive the light through what you read, through what you hear in meditation, or through some spiritual practice.

Yes, hardships come. But I see in my life and in the lives of others how often something that does not have to be held as a hardship is dealt with by the mind as though it is.

There is nothing spiritual about complacency.

Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for.

We can invoke spiritual compensation when we find ourselves in situations of material lack.

Increasing meaning and joy on the planet is the ultimate goal because within that space all evil is cast out.

Love itself compensates for any diminishment.

If you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - because a nation is simply a large group of individuals.

Psychology which explains everything, explains nothing.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

Poetry...... a place for the genuine, Hands that can grasp, eyesthat can dilate, hair that can rise

A spiritual reinterpretation of events gives us miraculous authority to command the winds, to part the waters, and to break all chains that bind us.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn.

There is nothing to find, only to realize. There is nothing to become, only to be. There is nothing to fear, only to love.

If adrenaline was a catalyst for strength then hope was the catalyst for endurance.

There's no single effort more radical in it's potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.

I won't show weakness here, but, damn it, tears don't mean I'm frail and pathetic, only that I'm unhappy.

The future is the one thing you can count on not abandoning you, kid, he’d said. The future will always finds you. Stand still, and it will find you. The way the land just has run to sea.

The most powerful thought is a prayerful thought. When I'm praying for you, I am praying for my own peace of mind. I can only have for myself what I am willing to wish for you.

It's not how long it glows. It's not how long the light lasts. It's what it says while it's still visible.

Her eyes are liquid and draining out of her.

Men in our culture have been spoiled, treated with false reverence instead of respect.

The problem with setting goals is that they can be limiting.  Perhaps we're asking for something good when God's will is that we be given something great.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

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.

Sean was young, vibrant, capable. Life hadn't even begun to digest his hope.

Now she smiles as if I'm her favorite chocolate bar. "And I love you, Jordan.

First we are tested on our strengths, then we our strengths are tested

Ethics is a skill

We don't know how to be women because we were taught it was not OK to be girls. Our most natural impulses were thwarted and distorted.

Birth is violent whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness contagion of trust can make trust.

Love is what we were borne with. Fear is what we learned here.

The enslaver is enslaved the hater harmed.

When one is frank one's very presence is a compliment.

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

If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.