Quotes about spirit
spiritual flower law
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. Marianne Williamson
spiritual inspiration ambition
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. Marianne Williamson
spiritual pain eye
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. Marianne Williamson
spiritual journey mind
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. Marianne Williamson
spiritual mean trying
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. Marianne Williamson
spiritual writing principles
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. Marianne Williamson
spiritual self issues
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. Marianne Williamson
spiritual spiritual-truth harder
As you get older, life gets harder if you're not applying spiritual truths. Marianne Williamson
spiritual struggle thinking
I don't think of spiritual principle as a struggle. I think of life lived without spiritual principles as a struggle. Marianne Williamson
spiritual religious stories
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. Marianne Williamson
spiritual miracle hills
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. Marianne Williamson
spiritual law consciousness
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. Marianne Williamson
spiritual book communication
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. Marianne Williamson
spiritual goal inner-peace
The goal of the spiritual activist is to find inner peace even in externally chaotic circumstances. Marianne Williamson
spiritual real situation
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. Marianne Williamson
spiritual war issues
Given how deeply the ways of war have penetrated our collective consciousness, it will take spiritual power to turn the issue around. Marianne Williamson
spiritual commitment holiness
The spiritual commitment is to make every situation an object of devotional connection. Marianne Williamson
spiritual light differences
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. Marianne Williamson
spiritual journey goal
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. Marianne Williamson
spiritual cancer hatred
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. Marianne Williamson
spiritual moving giving
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.... Marianne Williamson
spiritual children thinking
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. Marianne Williamson
spiritual believe people
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. Marianne Williamson
spiritual suffering metaphysical
I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering. Marianne Williamson
spiritual light giving
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. Marianne Williamson
spiritual father believe
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. Marianne Williamson
spiritual goal growth
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. Marianne Williamson
spiritual shopping culture
Lives with no more sense of spiritual meaning than that provided by shopping malls, ordinary television, and stagnant workplaces are barren lives indeed. Spirituality enriches culture. Marianne Williamson
spiritual children moving
The only way to gain power in a world that is moving too fast is to learn to slow down. And the only way to spread one’s influence wide to learn how to go deep. The world we want for ourselves and our children will not emerge from electronic speed but rather from a spiritual stillness that takes root in our souls. Then, and only then, will we create a world that reflects the heart instead of shattering it. Marianne Williamson
spiritual spring self
God's truth is literal truth. The illumined mind has more operative cells. In reclaiming the mystical, we take back our whole selves. Formerly barren mental lands spring to new life through the planting of spiritual seeds. Marianne Williamson
spiritual innocence glory
To be truly seen and understood - in all our innocence and glory and yes, our brokenness, too - is to be delivered into the spiritual ethers where both seen and seer are healed. Marianne Williamson
spiritual jesus discovery
Spiritual wisdom is now available to everyone, disseminated to the masses as never before in world history. Finally, a few trips to the library, and we have a pretty good sense of what all the masters said. They all said the same things. There is a mass discovery that Jesus is truth, the Torah is truth, Mohammed is truth, Krishna is truth, Buddha is truth, and so on. They are all truth and they are all among us now. Marianne Williamson
spiritual transformation mental-illness
Nervous breakdowns can be highly underrated methods of spiritual transformation. Marianne Williamson