Marianne Williamson Quotes About Growth

• Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.

  Marianne Williamson

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Giving Up

• The Goddess doesn't enter us from outside; she emerges from deep within. She is not held back by what happened in the past. She is conceived in consciousness, born in love, and nurtured by higher thinking. She is integrity and value, created and sustained by the hard work of personal growth and the discipline of a life lived actively in hope.

  Marianne Williamson

  Integrity, Hard Work, Past

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.18, Ballantine Books

• I've come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way. The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.

  Marianne Williamson

  Challenges, Soul, Growth

• Every relationship, every situation is part of a divinely created and highly specific curriculum for your soul growth

  Marianne Williamson

  Soul, Growth, Curriculum

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jan 01, 2013

• Growth is a detox process, as our weakest, darkest places are sucked up to the surface in order to be released...often, it is not a change in partners but rather a change in perception that delivers us to the love we seek.

  Marianne Williamson

  Change, Order, Perception

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Enchanted Love: The Mystical Power Of Intimate Relationships”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

• Allowing the pain of personal growth to be a crucible of your spirit-the alchemical grail through which the metal of your former self turns into gold-is one of the highest callings of life. Pain can burn you up and destroy you, or burn you up and redeem you. It can deliver you to an entrenched despair, or deliver you to your higher self. At midlife we decide, consciously or unconsciously, the path of the victim or the path of the phoenix when it is rising up at last.

  Marianne Williamson

  Pain, Self, Phoenix

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.74, ReadHowYouWant.com

• The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.

  Marianne Williamson

  Challenges, Soul, Growth

• Relationships are the Holy Spirit's laboratories in which He brings together people who have the maximal opportunity for mutual growth.

  Marianne Williamson

  Opportunity, People, Growth

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

• The human species has all but lost its heart; we gave it up for the illusionary fruits of the material world. But a life without heart is a life without life force. The psyche, as well as the body, needs both heart and brain in order to survive. Like Chinese women who bound their feet and the could no longer walk freely, we have bound our hearts, and thus stunted our growth as moral beings.

  Marianne Williamson

  Heart, Order, Feet

• If we do not like what we see in the world, we must face what we don't like in ourselves. As we change, the world will change with us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Growth, World, Faces

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life”, p.15, Harper Collins

• Spiritual growth increases our sense of what's possible. And as we sense new possibility, we can step into that possibility. With every word, every thought, every action, we choose what we wish to call forth in life.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Growth, Wish

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com

• Don't think small and expect to have a big life.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Life, Positive Thinking

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Dec 10, 2012

• Relationships are part of a vast plan for our enlightenment, the Holy Spirit's blueprint by which each individual soul is led to greater awareness and expanded love. Relationships are the Holy Spirit's laboratories in which he brings together people who have the maximal opportunity for mutual growth.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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

• 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.

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  Spiritual, Goal, Growth

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.138, Ballantine Books

• I don't think pain is a prerequisite for growth, but on the other hand, most of us choose very painful ways to learn.

  Marianne Williamson

  Pain, Thinking, Hands

  Source: www.lotusguide.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

• In pursuing personal growth, there are issues where we can advance just so far by ourselves. At some point, our continued progress and improvement can only come about through relationships with others. Romantic love is an intense and intimate exposure to another person; if we can be who we want to be, even in that context, then our spiritual growth is exponentially expanded.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Love Is, Romantic Love

  Source: www.awarenessmag.com

• The spiritual journey, the path of recovery and personal growth, is a detoxification process in which we bring up and out the negative beliefs we have carried with us from the past and that now poison the present.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Recovery, Past

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.41, Ballantine Books

• Accepting people as they are has the miraculous effect of helping them improve. Acceptance doesn't prohibit growth; rather, it fosters it.

  Marianne Williamson

  Acceptance, People, Growth

• I write and speak about personal and spiritual growth. One week I write about illness and another week I speak about relationships and another week I write about work and money and another week I speak to people with obesity issues. I write about whatever wounds seem to cry out for more enlightened solutions, and the love that heals them all.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Writing, Issues

  "Marianne Williamson on Consciousness, Women and Politics". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 09, 2012.

• I think daily life is where the lessons come in - that's where the tests and the growth come in.

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Growth, Lessons

  Source: scottlondon.com

• People on a spiritual path - personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga and so forth - are the last people who should be sitting out the social and political issues of our day. And there’s an important reason for this: People on such journeys are adepts at change. They know that the mechanics of the heart and mind are the fundamental drivers of transformation.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Yoga, Heart

  "SISTER GIANT: Consciousness and Politics" by Marianne Williamson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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