A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles (The Marianne Williamson Series)

When we know that love is an infinite resource—that there is enough abundance of every kind for everyone and that only what we give to others we get to keep—then we stop denigrating other people, and start blessing them instead.

Our attitude doesn’t affect their efficacy in any way. If I’m lifting weights at the gym, I can either love the experience or hate it, but it doesn’t really matter. All that affects my body is whether or not I lift the weights. So it is with meditation. Also, as with physical exercise, the effects of meditation are cumulative.

Powerful forces swirled around him.

The acceptance of the resurrection is the realization of the fact that we need wait no longer to see ourselves as healed and whole.

The way to do that is to bless her beauty, praise it, permit it to be so you can permit your own. Christie Brinkley being beautiful doesn’t mean that you don’t get to be. There’s enough beauty to go around. It’s just an idea. Anyone can have it. As you bless what she has, you multiply your chances of having it too.”

Spiritual practice supports the development of personal power.

“feel your anger,” “feel your shame.” But we need support in feeling our positive feelings just as much as we need support in feeling our negative ones. It is the experience of genuine emotion of any kind that the ego resists. We need support and permission to feel our love, to feel our satisfaction and to feel our happiness.

Give all your gifts away in service to the world.

The greatest gift we can give to a person in pain is to hold in our own minds the thought that there is a light beyond this darkness.