Marianne Williamson Quotes About Choices

• Forgiveness is the choice to see people as they are now. When we're mad at people, we're angry because of something they said or did before this moment. By letting go of the past, we make room for miracles to replace our grievances.

  Marianne Williamson

  Forgiveness, Letting Go, Past

• In every moment we make a decision -- whether conscious or unconscious. Will I choose to open my heart, send love, withhold judgment and thus free myself from fear? Or will I close my heart, project fear instead of extending love, judge others, and thus bind myself to fear? The choice is mine and mine alone.

  Marianne Williamson

  Heart, Judging, Choices

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jul 16, 2014

• You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.

  Marianne Williamson

  Believe, Responsibility, Exercise

• The choice to be used as an instrument of love, right here, right now, is a choice for personal empowerment.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Choices

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

• Forgiveness is a selective remembering. It is a conscious choice to focus on someone's innocence instead of his or her mistakes...This serves *you*...Your body was not created to bear the burden of your overattachment to it, but was created as a container for the light of your spirit. It will more easily remember how to function perfectly when you remember the perfection in everyone.

  Marianne Williamson

  Mistake, Light, Perfection

• Women will not be free
  until we can speak our minds and our hearts
  without having to worry that men will crucify us,
  women will crucify us,
  the press will crucify us,
  or our children will be ashamed...
  Women are still in emotional bondage
  as long as we feel we have to make
  a choice between being heard
  and being loved.

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, Heart, Men

• Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Emotional, Long

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.69, Ballantine Books

• The choice to follow love through to its completion is the choice to seek completion within ourselves. The point at which we shut down on others is the point at which we shut down on life. We heal as we heal others, and we heal others by extending our perceptions past their weaknesses. Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who that person is. Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is. Forgiving others is the only way to forgive ourselves, and forgiveness is our greatest need.

  Marianne Williamson

  Past, Love Is, Choices

• Whether we love, or close our hearts to love, is a mental choice we make, every moment of every day.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Heart, Choices

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles”, p.19, Harper Collins

• Happiness is the choice I make today. It does not rest on my circumstances, but on my frame of mind...In cultivating the habits of happiness, I attract the people and situations that match its frequency. I smile more often, give praise more often, give thanks more often, and am glad more often. For such is my choice today.

  Marianne Williamson

  People, Giving, Choices

• The worlds of Truth (love) and illusion (fear) are like parallel universes; with every thought we make a choice which one to inhabit

  Marianne Williamson

  Choices, World, Illusion

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from May 29, 2011

• Love and fear represent two different lenses through which to view the world. Which I choose to use will determine what I think I see.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Fear

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 17, 2012

• From a mind filled with infinite love comes the power to create infinite possibilities. We have the power to think in ways that reflect and attract all the love in the world. Such thinking is called enlightenment. Enlightenment is not a process we work toward, but a choice available to us in any instant.

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Choices, Mind

  Marianne Williamson (2012). “The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles”, p.7, Harper Collins

• 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.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Thinking, Self

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 23, 2013

• 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.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Interaction With Others, Giving

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 27, 2013

• 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.

  Marianne Williamson

  Heart, Self, Choices

• A relationship is more of an assignment than a choice. We can walk away from the assignment, but we cannot walk away from the lessons it presents. We stay with a relationship until a lesson is learned, or we simply learn it another way.

  Marianne Williamson

  Choices, Lessons, Way

• You are free to experience life negatively or positively, and the choice you make determines whether you are at cause, or at effect, of the life you are living.

  Marianne Williamson

  Being Happy, Choices, Causes

  Marianne Williamson (2004). “Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles”, p.108, Penguin

• The plan of spiritual evolution is marked not only by God's will that we move ever in the direction of love, nut also by another of God's creative principles: that humanity has free will. What that means is that in any given moment, it is our choice whether we move toward love or retreat from it. What is not love is fear. But in the larger scheme of things, there is a limit past which lovelessness cannot remain. 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, Moving, Mean

• In a choice between love and fear, choose love.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Choices, Choose Wisely

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 06, 2013

• Only love can bring us peace. And the experience of love is a choice we make, a mental decision to see love as the only real purpose and value in any situation.

  Marianne Williamson

  Attitude, Real, Love Is

• Of course, a woman's choice to go out into the world is a very significant thing. But part of real liberation is recognizing that mothering is every bit as important as other kinds of work. I actually believe it's more important than anything we do out in the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Real, Believe, Significant Things

  Source: scottlondon.com

• We have a lot of choice about whether to interpret something as adversity or as opportunity. I see in myself the tendency at times to make situations worse than they have to be because of my catastrophic interpretation.

  Marianne Williamson

  Adversity, Opportunity, Choices

  Source: scottlondon.com

• In every moment, we make a choice about which direction we are going to go. Once we realize that this is a self-correcting and self-organizing universe, then we don't have to look any further than our own life circumstances, the relationships and situations that we are in, to begin the transformation.

  Marianne Williamson

  Self, Choices, Looks

  Interview with John Robbins, foodrevolution.org. January 1, 2013.

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