Marianne Williamson Quotes About Darkness

• Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work.

  Marianne Williamson

  Heart, Darkness, Trying

  Marianne Williamson (2004). “Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles”, p.17, Penguin

• 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.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Love Is, Darkness

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Sep 20, 2011

• 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.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

• 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

• The universe is wired with the electricity of God, & each of us is a lamp. It doesn't matter the size or shape of the lamp; it only matters that the lamp is plugged in. With every prayer, every thought of forgiveness, every meditation, every act of love, we plug in. The more of us who plug in, to more the darkness of the world will be cast from our midst. Today, let's all increase love's wattage!

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Happiness, Forgiveness

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Oct 01, 2010

• It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Confidence, Fear, Light

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

• Darkness is merely the absence of light, and fear is merely the absence of love. If we want to be rid of fear, we cannot fight it but must replace it with love.

  Marianne Williamson

  Fighting, Light, Darkness

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

• 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, Light, Differences

• Healing works through a kind of detox: things have got to come up in order to be released. That is true of our personal issues, and also our collective issues. We can't just push the darkness down, pour pink paint over it and then pretend it's not there. We have to look at it, accept that it exists and then release it for healing.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Healing, Order

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Feb 17, 2013

• We aren't bodies at all; who we are is the love inside us, and it is that love alone that determines our value. When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness.

  Marianne Williamson

  Light, Darkness, Mind

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

• Once the light of our awareness is cast on any darkness, then it cannot hide and it cannot remain. Such is the law of consciousness.

  Marianne Williamson

  Light, Law, Darkness

• If you want to end darkness you cannot beat it with a baseball bat, you have to turn on a light.

  Marianne Williamson

  Baseball, Light, Darkness

• You will fear the darkness only to the extent that you yourself are not providing light.

  Marianne Williamson

  Fear, Light, Darkness

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Sep 04, 2009

• There can be no darkness where I provide the light.

  Marianne Williamson

  Light, Darkness

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Year of Miracles: Daily Devotions and Reflections”, p.3, Harper Collins

• Light is to darkness what love is to fear; in the presence of one the other disappears.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Fear, Light

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Year of Miracles: Daily Devotions and Reflections”, p.3, Harper Collins

• Every time we focus on someone else's darkness, we are blocking our own view of the light. We think the person we are involved with has attacked us or has withheld love from us, when they really haven't. We focus on their guilt instead of their innocence. Frequently people are just being themselves and we start projecting our own childhood dramas onto them, pushing away the very love we want so much.

  Marianne Williamson

  Drama, Block, Thinking

  Source: www.awarenessmag.com

• 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, Journey, Goal

• With every prayer and every thought of love, we release
  the light that will cast out darkness. One light alone seems
  small and weak, but no one's light is ever alone, for all our
  lights are part of God.

  Marianne Williamson

  Prayer, Light, Darkness

• Chaos often fosters the greatest creativity. Breakdowns often precede the greatest breakthroughs. And when the pain is greatest is often when we're on the brink of the greatest realization.....When the pain is burned through rather than numbed, when our darkness is brought to light and then forgiven, then and only then can we move on. And move on we do.

  Marianne Williamson

  Pain, Moving, Creativity

• God would have us move to the highest level of our nature, and that means that we need to understand that our capacity to deal with the spirit-the darkness of the spirit with the light of the spirit as our greatest power.

  Marianne Williamson

  Moving, Mean, Light

• When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness

  Marianne Williamson

  Light, Darkness, Mind

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

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