Quotes about spiritual
spiritual teaching writing
Marianne Williamson No matter what I write or speak about, it always has some connection to how our spiritual understanding impacts the world we live in. Whether I'm writing or teaching about nutrition, pilates, green living or meditation, all topics simmer down to self thought and intention.
spiritual powerful issues
Marianne Williamson I am very much into politics, but what interests me is sacred principles applied to that area. I am interested in the intersection of the Spiritual and the political - how spiritual principles apply to the social and political issues of our day. For me, the spiritual realm, is a more powerful place to speak from on those issues.
spiritual pain joy
Marianne Williamson Choosing joy involves spiritual surrender, and sometimes we would rather hold on to the pain than surrender our egos.
spiritual real stupid
Marianne Williamson When you look at obesity in the United States, clearly it is not a bunch of stupid people. It has nothing to do with intelligence. Sometimes people who are dealing with issues of obesity and compulsive eating know more than I will ever know about nutrition, metabolism, and exercise, because they have studied it. But clearly the real problem, and therefore the real solution, is on another level of consciousness, and that is where the spiritual work comes in.
spiritual fate world
Marianne Williamson The fate of the world rests on this one thing: our capacity to actualize our spiritual potential, and quickly.
spiritual flower law
Marianne Williamson When you understand spiritual law, then you realize that everything you give, good or bad, will in fact come back to you tenfold and that's just the way it is. You give someone flowers and the person you are ultimately giving to is yourself.
spiritual inspiration ambition
Marianne Williamson The world we live in pictures a pie with only so many pieces, and if other people have more you have less, and you have to compete with other people in order to try to get ahead. You have to sell yourself at every available opportunity. The shift, the enlightened shift, has to do with a movement from competition to collaboration, from sales to service, from ambition to inspiration, and to a belief in scarcity to a belief in abundance as an eternal spiritual quality.
spiritual pain eye
Marianne Williamson Often on a journey of spiritual transformation, that is ultimately what heals the pain: the veil is removed from in front of our own eyes and we see where we had been thinking thoughts that would inevitably lead to pain. Until we change those thoughts, the pain will remain.
spiritual journey mind
Marianne Williamson How we sit within the body is an extremely important part of the spiritual journey. The body itself is used either by the spirit within us, or by the fear-based mind. When it is used by the spirit, then it is a thing of holiness. How we dwell within it, how we treat it, and how we use it in relationship to other aspects of the planet is extremely important. When we use the body without reverence, we are destructive elements on the planet. We become destructive to ourselves, to other life forms, and to the earth.
spiritual mean trying
Marianne Williamson I realize that the curriculum is my life on any given day. At this point, more than anything, my spiritual path means looking at every circumstance and trying to see my part in where it's good and where it's not so good.
spiritual writing principles
Marianne Williamson 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.
spiritual self issues
Marianne Williamson To me, that's the important issue about spiritual principle: that you recognize it as both that which saves you from the self-sabotaging mind and that which heals you and lifts you up when you succumb to it and attract whatever personal disaster you attract.
spiritual spiritual-truth harder
Marianne Williamson As you get older, life gets harder if you're not applying spiritual truths.
spiritual struggle thinking
Marianne Williamson I don't think of spiritual principle as a struggle. I think of life lived without spiritual principles as a struggle.
spiritual religious stories
Marianne Williamson The religious stories, the religious truths, the spiritual principles - obviously, they don't change. But as you get older and you experience more, you recognize the applicability, the profundity, and the fundamental truths of spiritual principles in ways that you couldn't when you simply were living a less dimensional life.
spiritual miracle hills
Marianne Williamson The miracle is when you shift. The miracle is when you know there is no hill - you're removing the hill. The miracle is when you realize the time of physical decline can be a time of spiritual incline.
spiritual law consciousness
Marianne Williamson 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.
spiritual book communication
Marianne Williamson As far as nonviolence and Spiritual Activism, Marshall Rosenberg is it! Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, is essential reading for anyone who wants to improve their communication skills. Applying the concepts within the book will help guide the reader towards a more loving, compassionate, and nonviolent way of understanding and functioning with others, and foster more compassion in the world. I highly recommend this book.
spiritual goal inner-peace
Marianne Williamson The goal of the spiritual activist is to find inner peace even in externally chaotic circumstances.
spiritual real situation
Marianne Williamson the spiritual meaning of every situation [is] not what happens to us, but what we do with what happens to us and who we decide to become because of what happens to us. The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through.
spiritual war issues
Marianne Williamson Given how deeply the ways of war have penetrated our collective consciousness, it will take spiritual power to turn the issue around.
spiritual commitment holiness
Marianne Williamson The spiritual commitment is to make every situation an object of devotional connection.
spiritual light differences
Marianne Williamson Our spiritual mission is not to ignore the darkness, but to bring light TO the darkness. Ignoring darkness does not dispel it; only the light does. That is the difference between denial and transcendence.
spiritual journey goal
Marianne Williamson Personal growth can be painful, because it can make us feel ashamed and humiliated to face our own darkness. But our spiritual goal is the journey out of fear-based, painful mental habit patterns, to those of love and peace.
spiritual cancer hatred
Marianne Williamson Hatred is the spiritual malignancy of our species, and like any other form of cancer, does its most terrible work not outwardly, but from within us.
spiritual moving giving
Marianne Williamson Fear is not life-giving enough to sustain itself. We can move in the direction of fear only so long before it brings us to our knees, or to our end....
spiritual children thinking
Marianne Williamson I think the greatest gift we can give our children is to show them that devotion to God's purposes - love for all beings - is the center of all right living.
spiritual believe people
Marianne Williamson 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.
spiritual suffering metaphysical
Marianne Williamson I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering.
spiritual light giving
Marianne Williamson 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.
spiritual father believe
Marianne Williamson My father's politics were old-fashioned in the sense that he used to say, all the time, "You've got to fight the system!" But my spiritual beliefs have led me to believe that the fight is the problem.
spiritual goal growth
Marianne Williamson Spiritual growth is like childbirth: you dilate, then you contract, you dilate, then you contract again. as painful as it all feels, it's the necessary rhythm for reaching the ultimate goal of total openness.