Marianne Williamson Ira Quotations

I have hope, because I believe in miracles.

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.

...a miracles is a reasonable thing to ask for.

Things don't spiral out of control when we surrender them; they spiral out of control when we try to control them!

We are always pregnant with a truer version of ourselves.

In a choice between love and fear, choose love.

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.

The path to self-esteem lies in getting over yourself. There is nothing to esteem about our smaller dramas; it's our commitment to something beyond ourselves that is truly estimable to ourself and others.

Often miracles are happening right in front of our eyes, but we think they should look different, so we miss them though they're right there.

Forgiving ourselves for all the woulda-shoulda-couldas in life, and sometimes forgiving others for actions that we feel undercut or undermine our good, can be very challenging. But forgiveness of the past and mistakes, our own mistakes as well as the mistakes of others, is imperative if we are to dwell fully in the present and experience the miracles that are only available to the forgiving and loving mind.

I can't say that there are "things" that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive. Those are thoughts that take me beyond myself; that remind me that there's a bigger game going on on this planet than simply my own existence; that love works miracles, and how much we need them at certain moment.

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.

In the area of work and money, we have one of the most intense gaps between fear-based and love-based thought. It's not that a miracle mindset applies to work and money any more than it applies to anything else; rather, it applies there no less than anywhere else.

Embryos turn into babies; buds turn into blossoms; acorns turn into oak trees. The same programming that exists in them exists in each of us - to manifest our highest potential. What is the difference between those things and us? That we can say no...So today, say yes.

The body IS a miracle, after all.

You are completely at choice who you will be today in your interactions with others. Compassionate, kind, giving and forgiving will create one set of probabilities; angry, judgmental, critical and defensive will create another one altogether.

Whatever outrageous dream keeps flowing across your mind, allow it to live inside you. Don't deflect it, diminish it, invalidate it or come up with some excuse for why it can't happen. This will allow it to explain itself to you - why it's there, what it means, and what if anything you should do about it.

Sometimes a miracle is a change in material conditions, such as physical healing. At other times, it is a psychological or emotional change.

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.

Love has a way of showing you to yourself, whether through satisfaction or humiliation. It hovers over you like a magnifying glass you cannot escape, intensifying the slightest feelings of either delight or shame. No other experience makes so obvious the realities of both heaven and hell.

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

By bringing the past into the present, we create a future just like the past. By letting the past go, we make room for miracles.

Dear God, I surrender this thought to you, for I would see the miracle that lies behind it. Amen.

Conviction is a force multiplier. If you want something, claim it in your gut. The universe itself responds to your inner certainty.

Carrying the past in to the present, we program the future to continue the past. Letting go the past in the present, we free the future to be something else.

Miracles arise from conviction. Be convicted about these things: Miracles can happen. Miracles do happen. Love makes them happen.

The universe is an infinite opportunity creation machine. In every instant, the possibility of greater possibility is programmed into the nature of things. Love creates the conduit through which new possibility enters our experience, and lovelessness keeps it at bay.

First there was the word. A Course in Miracles says that prayer is the "medium of miracles." It's the realm of thought where we are aligned with the thought of God and therefore in a co- creative mode. It's where we surrender our minds to His mind and become empowered.

The difference between magic and miracles is this. Magic is when you use your mind to tell the Universe what you want. Miracles is when you ask the Universe what it wants and how you can serve it'

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. When you choose to love, you choose to work miracles.

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.

A Course in Miracles tells us that although 'we think that without the ego, all would be chaos, the opposite is true. Without the ego, all would be love.'

I embrace each moment as an opportunity for a miracle.

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...

We live in a self-organizing and self-correcting universe. For every problem, there is a potentially miraculous solution. A closed heart deflects the miracle, while an open heart brings it forth....In every moment, we make a choice between the heavenly awareness of our connection to all living things, or the hell of the delusion that we are separate and alone. The mind will manufacture according to our choice; whichever we choose, we will seem to experience.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one two things: either love, or a call for love.

Until we have seen someone's darkness, we don't really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone's darkness, we don't really know what love is.

Our key to transforming anything lies in our ability to reframe it.

It is our own thoughts that hold the key to miraculous transformation.

The miracle often lies outside our comfort zone.

You must master a new way to think, before you can master a new way to be.

Miracles begin when we consider the possibility that there might be another way.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.

Every relationship is a gift exchange.

Taking the time to meditate is as important as taking the time to breathe. One pumps oxygen into the body, the other pumps peace into the mind.

With every thought we think, we either summon or block a miracle.

With every thought we think, we either summon or block a miracle. It is not our circumstances, then, but rather our thoughts about our circumstances, that determine our power to transform them.

The universe is intentional. It is always moving in the direction of greater love, regardless whether or not we consciously align with that love.

In any moment, in any circumstance, a miracle will occur when we align ourselves with truth.

You don't need a new life, just a new lens through which to view the one you have.

Speak from your mind and people will hear you with their mind. Speak from your heart and people will hear you with their heart.

Whatever worked in the past, build on it; whatever didn't work in the past, break the chain that binds you to it.

To the extent we are perceiving anyone's guilt -choosing to focus on the errors of their personality rather than the eternal innocence of their spirit - we're closing our hearts, deflecting a miracle and causing our own inevitable suffering.

Let's forgive the past and who we were then. Let's embrace the present and who we're capable of becoming. Let's surrender the future and watch miracles unfold.

The Universe is either expressing a miracle or is pregnant with the next one.

The week ahead is already programmed for fabulousness. Pray that your thinking be aligned with the force that makes it so.

Every aspect of life is pre-programmed to rise to its highest creative possibility. We don't have to make that happen, but we have to allow it to happen. And that itself is the struggle of life: resisting the resistant mind.

The wise person doesn't ask, "What have I achieved?" but rather, "What have I contributed?"

Enter any moment devoid of agenda, with an absence of posturing, and with your only intention being to send love to everyone you meet or even think of... Happiness, miracles and inner peace will follow.

We tend to have tremendous faith in the power of our disasters and far too little faith in the power of miracles.

A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love-from a belief in what is not real, to faith in that which is. That shift in perception changes everything.

In asking for miracles, we are seeking a practical goal: a return to inner peace. We’re not asking for something outside us to change, but for something inside us to change. We’re looking for a softer orientation to life.

You can live constrained within the confines of a solely material perspective, or choose instead the infinite field of quantum possibility.

During times of challenge, what you have faith in is what determines what the challenge will turn into. Have faith in the reality of the challenge, and it will birth more challenges. Have faith in the reality of miracles, and the challenge will transform into something else.

There is an emergent enlightenment appearing today, unique to no particular culture or ethnicity. Anyone who chooses to be, is its conduit.

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

Imagine the week ahead unfolding in an ever-increasing flow of miracles. Allow the image to sink into your heart. Receive it with a big yes!

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

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

Magic happens when you tell the universe what you want it to do for you; miracles happen when you ask how you can be of service to the universe.

If we never take a risk, we'll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.

When we do align with it, we thrive. And when we do not, we suffer. This is not "punishment." It is merely the Law of Cause and Effect. With each thought we think, we either align with universal love, or we disconnect ourselves from it. Whichever is our choice determines whether we then feel connected to, or disconnected, from our own true Selves.

In 2004, Kucinich was the only presidential candidate who warned that a war in Iraq would be completely disastrous. I remember how mocked he was when he predicted hand-to-hand combat in Baghdad. I remember Candy Crowley, and other reporters as well, treating his views on the impending war as ridiculous, out there, almost insane.

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love.

A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.

No matter what the problem, a miracle can solve it. Remember to ask for one...

Behind every fear, there is a miracle waiting.