Marianne Williamson Quotes

He, who learns and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden, with a load of books.

We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.

Call the world if you please "the vale of soul-making." Then you will find out the use of the world.

It is the Fourth Instinct (the spirit - RJ) that urges us to exceed ourselves ... by awakening our intuitive selves, and striving to be all that we were intended to be. It takes us beyond self-centeredness and enables us to resist the combined forces of indifference and meaninglessness. It awakens us to a sense of responsibility for those most in need of our society as well as for that world that future generations will inherit.

I like to make use of what I know

Hinduism is a relentless pursuit of Truth. "Truth is God" and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued; and as soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst upon the world with a brilliance perhaps unknown before.

The only important thing in this life is to figure out how to use the experiences that you have to make the world a better place.

The value of knowledge is to use it. It is not humanly possible that a person can retain all knowledge of the world, but if a person knows how to search for all the knowledge of the world, he will find it when he wants it.

Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.

Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use; or, if sterling, may require good management to make it serve the purposes of sense or happiness.

That is the ultimate synthesis - when Zorba becomes a Buddha. I am trying to create here not Zorba the Greek but Zorba the Buddha.

Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

I came to the conclusion that unless I found myself and became the change I wanted to see in the world - as Gandhi said - I couldn't contribute much, nor would there be anything fulfilling or meaningful in my life. So I went on a spiritual search.

If you try to use Christ as a solution to your problems, it will not work. You have to serve Him in order for Him to serve you.

I... keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be and what I could be if... if only there were no other people in the world.

What lasting impact will I make on the world and those around me? What will I live my life for? How will I be remembered? I want to leave the world a better place than it was when I got here. I want to experience as much as I can in this very short life that we have.

A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be.

We grow to heaven. We don't go to heaven.

It is through good education that all the good in the world arises.

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting - an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Destroy your primitivity, and you will most probably get along well in the world, maybe achieve great success--but Eternity will reject you. Follow up your primitivity, and you will be shipwrecked in temporality, but accepted by Eternity.

Try to be all you can be to be the best human being you can be. Try to be that in your church, in your temple. Try to be that in your classroom. Do it because it is right to do.

If you will not rise above the things of this world, they will rise above you.

Though we must never think to learn above our Bible, as long as we are here in this world, yet we must still be getting forward in it.

Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven