We arrogantly assume that the nervous system doesn't really need to be coaxed into romance. That romance comes from some other place. Marianne Williamson More Quotes by Marianne Williamson More Quotes From Marianne Williamson Every heart has a divine intelligence and natural guidance system. With every prayer, every meditation and every thought of love, we tune in to ours. Marianne Williamson meditation prayer heart The problem with most intimate relationships is that they are not romantic. They do not involve a deeper knowing, and thus there is diminished possibility of sacred, transformative sharing. Marianne Williamson sacred knowing intimate-relationships To be truly seen and understood - in all our innocence and glory and yes, our brokenness, too - is to be delivered into the spiritual ethers where both seen and seer are healed. Marianne Williamson innocence glory spiritual Many people say they're looking for love, yet they're actually committed to never finding it. Many people would really rather not know the true scars and triumphs of the person who lies in their arms. Marianne Williamson triumph lying people Real love is comforting, to be sure, but not always at first. Marianne Williamson real comforting love-is To become romantic artists, we must pierce the armor that hides our hearts, and the piercing is not comfortable. Marianne Williamson armor artist heart It can take years of tears to melt the hardness that develops in this world, covering our tender, gentler inner selves. Tears for every devastating loss, tears for every humiliating failure, tears for every repeated mistake. Those who honor those tears, and even honor them, are not failures at love but rather its true initiates. First the pain and then the power. First the heart breaks and then it soars. Marianne Williamson pain mistake heart People involved in the inner journey discover the value of the feminine, the spiritually receptive and inclusive aspect of human consciousness. Marianne Williamson consciousness journey people Everyone archetypally is a parent to future generations. Marianne Williamson future-generation generations parent These are very serious times, and serious people need to be doing some serious thinking. Marianne Williamson people needs thinking We are the only species systematically destroying its own habitat. Marianne Williamson habitat species destroying We will have gone from men telling us condescendingly to not bother our pretty little heads about important things like politics, to not bothering our pretty little heads without even being told not to! The suffragettes struggled and suffered so much on our behalf; what a travesty of everything they stood for, if we simply look away as though we can't be bothered. Marianne Williamson important men looks For what we engage, we transform. And what we engage with our hearts is transformed forever. Marianne Williamson transformed forever heart I think those of us on a spiritual journey can help create a new conversation, a new America, and a new world. Marianne Williamson journey spiritual thinking When it comes to politics, we have an internal glass ceiling. We stand as good a chance as a man to win a political race, but women don't want to run at the same rate as men do. People point to the work-family balance issue, but I think it's much more than that. Many women don't have children, or have children who are no longer at home. There are some deeper psychological and emotional issues in play, like the fact that many of us feel like the embarrassment, humiliation and personal demonization in politics are simply more than our hearts can take. What stops us is fear. Marianne Williamson heart running children If you're getting your guidance about who you are and what to do with your life only from the external world, then by definition you'll be led away from your authentic truth. Your authentic truth isn't in the material world. It's counterintuitive, but you have more power in the world when you know you're not of it. Marianne Williamson definitions guidance world A primary goal of the spiritual life is to learn to quiet the mind through prayer and meditation, through spiritual practice, so that we can hear what in both Judaism and Christianity, is called the small, still voice within. Marianne Williamson practice prayer spiritual If you have a longing in your heart to hear a deeper truth, there's a mysterious way in which that truth will find you. Marianne Williamson mysterious heart way We need to take responsibility for the effect of our environment on our nervous systems, and particularly the nervous systems of our children. No wonder so many of them are diagnosed with all the stuff they're diagnosed with today. Modern technology is a blessing to be sure, but it's also a curse if we allow it to pull us out of our spiritual center. A 24 hour electronic onslaught comes at the expense of our deep humanity and our deepest relationships. Marianne Williamson responsibility spiritual children We can invoke spiritual compensation when we find ourselves in situations of material lack. In other words, what happens for most of us is that we are tempted and we are taught, we are trained as it were, to meet limited circumstances with limited thought. Marianne Williamson taught circumstances spiritual
