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

God is merely the love within us, so returning to Him is a return to ourselves.

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.

It is only through our own personal awakening that the world can be awakened. We cannot give what we don’t have.

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.”

As hard as it is to believe sometimes, we’re always responsible for how we see things.

I’m willing to see this situation differently.”

If you’re talented at music, that talent is of God. If something makes your heart sing, that’s God’s way of telling you it’s a contribution He wants you to make. Sharing our gifts is what makes us happy. We’re most powerful, and God’s power is most apparent on the earth when we’re happy.

The only problem is, according to the Course, that we create what we defend against.

Everything you need in life already exists inside your head.