Quotes about Understanding
It is an act of gracious generosity to accept a person based on what we know to be the truth about them, regardless of whether or not they are in touch with that truth themselves.
— Marianne Williamson
If they treat us with fear, we are to see their behavior as a call for love.
— Marianne Williamson
Enlightened people don't have anything we don't have. They have perfect love inside, and so do we. The difference is that they don't have anything else.
— Marianne Williamson
love requires a different kind of "seeing" than we're used to—a different kind of knowing or thinking. Love is the intuitive knowledge of our hearts. It's a "world beyond
— Marianne Williamson
The only real problem is a lack of love. To address the world's problems on any other level is a temporary palliative—a fix but not a healing, a treatment of the symptom but not a cure.
— Marianne Williamson
A belief in separation is always at the root of a problem, and a realization of our oneness is always at the root of its solution.
— Marianne Williamson
you dig deep enough into your mind, and deep enough into mine, the picture is the same: at the bottom of it all, what we are is love.
— Marianne Williamson
We're affected by other peoples' lovelessness only to the extent to which we judge them for it. Otherwise we are invulnerable to the ego, as the Son of God is meant to be.
— Marianne Williamson
By affirming that love is our priority in a situation
— Marianne Williamson
We're not at the mountaintop until any zone is comfortable. Love isn't love until it's unconditional.
— Marianne Williamson
Looking for Mr. Right leads to desperation because there is no Mr. Right. There is no Mr. Right because there is no Mr. Wrong. There is whoever is in front of us, and the perfect lessons to be learned from that person.
— Marianne Williamson
It amuses me to think how angry I used to get when people wouldn't sign my peace petitions.
— Marianne Williamson