Marianne Williamson Quotes About Focus

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  We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Forgiveness, Peace

• Take a good look at your life right now. If you don't like something about it, close your eyes and imagine the life you want. Now allow yourself to focus your inner eye on the person you would be if you were living this preferred life. Notice the differences in how you behave and present yourself; allow yourself to spend several seconds breathing in the new image, expanding your energy into this.

  Marianne Williamson

  Life, Eye, Breathing

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.68, ReadHowYouWant.com

• Whatever we focus on is bound to expand. Where we see the negative, we call forth more negative. And where we see the positive, we call forth more positive. Having loved and lost, I now love more passionately. Having won and lost, I now win more soberly. Having tasted the bitter, I now savor the sweet.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Sweet, Attitude

  Marianne Williamson (2004). “Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles”, p.94, Penguin

• 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

• 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.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Heart, Errors

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from May 10, 2013

• We were born with a natural tendency to focus on love. Our imaginations were creative and flourishing, and we knew how to use them. We were connected to a richer world, a world full of enchantment and a sense of the miraculous. What happened?

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Creativity, Imagination

• The greatest force of personal liberation is the decision to widen our circle of compassion, moving from focus on self to focus on service.

  Marianne Williamson

  Moving, Compassion, Self

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Nov 17, 2013

• Focus on guilt will always breed fear, and focus on innocence will always breed love. Any time we project guilt onto someone else, we are fortifying the experience of guilt within ourselves. Like blood on Lady MacBeth's hands, we cannot remove our own guilty feelings as long as we are judging others.

  Marianne Williamson

  Blood, Hands, Judging

  Marianne Williamson (2004). “Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles”, p.38, Penguin

• The highest level of prayer is not a prayer for anything. It is a deep and profound silence, in which we allow ourselves to be still and know Him. In that silence, we are changed. We are calmed. We are illumined. Prayer is meant to dissolve the worldly focus, to dissolve our sense of a separate self, to help us detach from an insane world order. We pray that He might flood our minds. Prayer is like pouring hot water on an ice cube, melting the cold and encrusted thought forms that still surround our hearts.

  Marianne Williamson

  Prayer, Heart, Order

• Forgiveness is 'selective remembering'--a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go.

  Marianne Williamson

  Focus, Decision, Remember

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

• 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

• There is an old cliche, 'You can see the glass half empty, or you can see it half full.' You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right. But whatever you focus on, you're going to get more of. Creation is an extension of thought. Think lack, and you get lack. Think abundance, and you get more.

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Glasses, Focus

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