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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9958c2e | Our species is in trouble because we fight too much. We fight ourselves, each other, our planet, and God. Our fear-ridden ways are threatening our survival. A thoroughly loving person is like an evolutionary mutation, manifesting a being that puts love first and thus creates the context in which miracles occur. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| d58de60 | A Course in Miracles says we think we're going to understand people in order to figure out whether or not they're worthy of our love, but that actually, until we love them, we can never understand them. What is not loved is not understood. We hold ourselves separate from people and wait for them to earn our love, but people deserve our love because of what God created them to be. As long as we're waiting for them to be anything better, .. | understanding relationships | Marianne Williamson | |
| b25896f | Forgiveness is a full time job, and sometimes very difficult. Few of us always succeed, yet making the effort is our most noble calling. It is the world's only real chance to begin again. A radical forgiveness is a complete letting go of the past, in any personal relationship, as well as in any collective drama. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 94d3093 | Any person, economic system, or political establishment that fails to concern itself with the pain of others is out of alignment with spiritual truth. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| a4571d7 | The future is programmed in the present. To let the past go is to remember that in the present, my brother is innocent. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| dcfb497 | Our political challenges are mere symptoms of a deeper malaise and a deeper dysfunction. Humanity itself is being challenged to move on to the next stage of our evolution. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| d9649b7 | everyone we meet will either be our crucifier or our savior, depending on what we choose to be to them. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| b95ace8 | Making another person feel guilty will never build unity or goodwill; only blessing, not blaming, can do that. All judgment does is to shut people down emotionally and psychologically. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 5659cb2 | Similarly, if we want to be rid of fear, we cannot fight it but must replace it with love. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| e9a088a | That's why the miracle is a shift in our own thinking: the willingness to keep our own heart open, regardless of what's going on outside us. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 0b17f18 | Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. --MARIANNE WILLIAMSON | Crystal Paine | ||
| d538961 | Love not only makes a crisis endurable; it makes it transformable. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 05081e4 | We don't just need a progressive politics or a conservative politics; we need a more deeply human politics. We need a politics of love. Love is the angel of our better nature, just as fear is the demon of the lower self. And it is love, not fear, that has made us great. When politics is used for loveless purposes, love and love alone can override it. It was love that abolished slavery, it was love that gave women suffrage, it was love that .. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| c568d6d | I said to myself, "Marianne. Next time you're down on your knees, why don't you just stay there?" | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 88e7c98 | It takes courage... to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives. ~ Marianne Williamson | Ivana Vereen | ||
| a4a369b | By striving to be the best we can be, we create the internal blueprint by which we do the best we can do. On a soul level, we want to work, we want to create, we want to be productive and serve others and share our gifts with the world. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| f0956c5 | As I began to study A Course in Miracles, I discovered the following things: God is the love within us. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 46ae0d6 | Political manifestations, both good and bad, are but outer reflections of internal realities. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 3338851 | In asking the Holy Spirit to help us, we are expressing our willingness to perceive a situation differently. We give up our own interpretations and opinions, and ask that they be replaced by His. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| ddc27b4 | Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don't yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving. It's the Holy Spirit's job to draw our attention to that, and help us move beyond that point. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| f9be378 | Life might have taught you that emotions are dangerous. Perhaps as a child, you were told things such as, "Don't you cry or I'll give you something to cry about!"--an emotionally tyrannical message that certainly would have taught you to suppress your feelings at all costs. Perhaps your emotions were ignored, minimized, or even laughed at by parents who had other things and other children to think about. What matters is that, for whatever r.. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 9cb6e7a | America's higher purpose is not just to allow you to have what you want, or to allow me to have what I want. Our higher purpose is to give everyone a fair shot at making their dreams come true. Anything that stands in the way of that will ultimately deprive all of us of the opportunities we hold most dear. For America doesn't belong to any one of us; America belongs to all of us. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| a159003 | I just learned the German word fernweh, sort of a cousin to wanderlust; it means "far-sickness, an ache for distance." Penny" | Amy Krouse Rosenthal | ||
| 16af3a4 | The same five letters can be rearranged to express my daily sense of--and relationship to--time. First from the viewpoint of childhood, then young adulthood, and now, the present. . . | Amy Krouse Rosenthal | ||
| d8c9ba3 | Then again, Einstein (pretty good at math) was also quite clear when he concluded, | Amy Krouse Rosenthal | ||
| a7130b7 | I think 90 percent of what/who we are is never really verbally communicated.... | Amy Krouse Rosenthal | ||
| cb91ba2 | Death demands its own designated punctuation mark. Maybe: ______ died/ It is a dividing line / everything on this side is different. | Amy Krouse Rosenthal | ||
| d605abd | For any one woman to outgrow the myth, she needs the support of many women. The toughest but most necessary change will come not from men or from the media, but from women, in the way we see and behave toward other women, | Naomi Wolf | ||
| cda7114 | Images of strangled women, women in cages do not push any limits; they are a mainstream cliche of a mainstream social order. Rock music fails to live up to its subversive tradition when it eroticizes the same old establishment sadomasochism rather than playing with gender roles to make us look at them afresh | Naomi Wolf | ||
| e3a7be9 | We conceived of the planet as female, an all-giving Mother Nature, just as we conceived of the female body, infinitely alterable by and for man; we serve both ourselves and our hopes for the planet by insisting on a new female reality on which to base a new metaphor for the earth: the female body with its own organic integrity that must be respected. | feminism | Naomi Wolf | |
| ced3797 | It is painful for women to talk about beauty because under the myth, one woman's body is used to hurt another. Our faces and bodies become instruments for punishing other women, often used out of our control and against our will. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 9ec47c0 | women who looked like fashion models--admitted to knowing, from the time they could first consciously think, that the ideal was someone tall, thin, white, and blond, a face without pores, asymmetry, or flaws, someone wholly "perfect," and someone whom they felt, in one way or another, they were not. I" | Naomi Wolf | ||
| dd9f4dc | The rise of the beauty myth was just one of several emerging social fictions that masqueraded as natural components of the feminine sphere, the better to enclose those women inside it. Other such fictions arose contemporaneously: a version of childhood that required continual maternal supervision; a concept of female biology that required middle-class women to act out the roles of hysterics and hypochondriacs; a conviction that respectable .. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| cfd8d7f | Women will be free of the beauty myth when we can choose to use our faces and clothes and bodies as simply one form of self-expression out of a full range of others. We can dress up for our pleasure, but we must speak up for our rights. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| fa5beac | When faced with the myth, the questions to ask are not about women's faces and bodies but about the power relations of the situation. Who is this serving? Who says? Who profits? When someone discusses a woman's appearance to her face, she can ask herself, is it that person's business? Are the power relations equal? Would she feel comfortable making the same personal comments in return? | Naomi Wolf | ||
| a0f24a1 | The ideology of beauty] has grown strong to take over the work of social coercion that myths about motherhood, domesticity, chastity, and passivity, no longer can manage. It is seeking right now to undo psychologically and covertly all the good things that feminism did for women materially and overtly. | feminism women | Naomi Wolf | |
| c838430 | Very nearly released by the spread of contraception, legal abortion, and the demise of the sexual double standard, that sexuality was quickly restrained once again by the new social forces of beauty pornography and beauty sadomasochism, which arose to put the guilt, shame, and pain back into women's experience of sex. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 0e4a3af | something important is indeed at stake that has to do with the relationship between female liberation and female beauty. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| b712385 | The beauty myth is not about women at all. It is about men's institutions and institutional power. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 79bb54c | Advertisers are the West's courteous censors. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 7ea67f1 | Women's writing is full ... of heartbreak with the injustices done by beauty--its presence as well as its absence. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 93e91dc | Women's writing is full ... with the injustices done by beauty--its presence as well as its absence. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 8dd11a2 | Women's flesh is evidence of a God-given wrongness; whereas fat men are fat gods. | Naomi Wolf | ||
| 0ae5c59 | The qualities that a given period calls beautiful in women are merely symbols of the female behavior that that period considers desirable: The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behavior and not appearance. | Naomi Wolf |