Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief.
Interpretation
Pain is a natural part of life, and it's essential to acknowledge and honor our grief.
Marianne Williamson highlights the inevitability of pain and grief in the human experience, suggesting that rather than trying to suppress these emotions, we should make space for them and recognize their significance. By honoring our grief, we accept it as a valid and essential part of our emotional journey, leading to a healthier relationship with our feelings and experiences.
In practice
In a speech about coping with loss, one might say, 'As Marianne Williamson reminds us, some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence.'
As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.
Governments move armies, but only individuals can move hearts.
The world is in trouble. Many have prayed. God sent help. God sent you.
Once we truly understand that God's will is that we be happy, we no longer feel the need to ask for anything other than that God's will be done.
A queen is wise. She has earned her serenity, not having had it bestowed on her but having passer her tests. She has suffered and grown more beautiful because of it. She has proved she can hold her kingdom together. She has become its vision. She cares deeply about something bigger than herself. She rules with authentic power.
Each of us has an inner room where we can visit to be cleansed of fear-based thoughts and feelings. This room, the holy of holies, is a sanctuary of light.
My prospects for life, though in a measure shaded with uncertainty, hardship and danger, are very animating and bright. My prospects for another life, blessed be God, are still brighter.
I think everybody needs a passion. Whether it's one passion or a hundred, that's what keep life interesting.
She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.
Life can't be all that bad,' i'd think from time to time. 'Whatever happens, i can always take a long walk along the Bosphorus.
But a voice inside her whispered, There are no heroes, and she remembered what Lord Petyr had said to her, here in this very hall. 'Life is not a song, sweetling,' he'd told her, 'You may learn that one day to your sorrow.' In life, the monsters win, she told herself.
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