Love not only makes a crisis endurable; it makes it transformable.
Love is everywhere, but if our eyes aren’t open to see it, we miss out. Who among us hasn’t missed out on love because we were looking for it in one package and it came in another? Our problem is rare...
Love interrupts the past and opens the future to new probabilities.
Life might have taught you that emotions are dangerous. Perhaps as a child, you were told things such as, Don’t you cry or I’ll give you something to cry about!—an emotionally tyrannical message that...
It’s nothing more than a mental habit to idealize another time, another condition, another reality. It is simply a way to avoid the reality of our lives right now. And in avoiding the reality of our p...
It’s all right if this part of your journey is not pleasant. Part of your repatterning is learning to be with unpleasantness in a healthy way. The mature and sober person knows that on some days thing...
It is our own thoughts that hold the key to miraculous transformation.
In the holy relationship, it’s understood that we all have unhealed places, and that healing is the purpose of our being with another person.
I surrender my fears and burdens to God. I needn’t carry into my day the burdens of my existence. Rather, I surrender them into the hands of God. I know that they will be lifted from me, for what I pl...
I said to myself, Marianne. Next time you’re down on your knees, why don’t you just stay there?
I needn’t prove anything to anyone. I am blessed as a child of God.
I atone in my heart for the mistakes I have made: the recklessness and irresponsibility, the laziness and dishonesty, the harm I have caused to myself or others. I pray for those who I may have hurt,...
I am a glorious child of God. I am joyful, serene, positive, and loving.
He teaches us to see love as our only function.
God gives us His strength by giving us His vision of things. Our seeing people as innocent is the only way to achieve God’s peace.
Eastern religions tell us that if we go for God, all that is not authentically ourselves will drop.
Childishness is when we’re so preoccupied with things that ultimately don’t matter, that we lose our essential connection with things that do.
By striving to be the best we can be, we create the internal blueprint by which we do the best we can do. On a soul level, we want to work, we want to create, we want to be productive and serve others...
But a spiritual fever, like a physical fever, actually has a productive function: it burns up disease. Think of your pain as a feverish burning up of fear. As you heal physically, extreme fever can le...
And that’s what this world is: a mass hallucination, where fear seems more real than love. Fear is an illusion. Our craziness, paranoia, anxiety and trauma are literally all imagined. That is not to s...