To celebrate this month’s guru, Marianne Williamson, we’ve collected a handful of her pearls of wisdom, so keep coming back for more. In the meantime, check this one out:

Even when relationships are good, the ego is always alert to ways it can drive two hearts apart. The ego directs us toward love but then sabotages it once it gets here. You think you’re so in love, but then you act needy and repel it. You think you’re feeling peaceful, but then love comes near and you get totally neurotic. You want to make a good impression, and then you go and act like an idiot.

The ego is always on the lookout for ways to undermine our relationships because genuine relationship means death to the ego. Where we unite with another, God is; and where God is, ego cannot be. To the ego, therefore, undermining our relationships is an act of self-preservation. The only way to ward off its destructiveness is to stand firm in your commitment to love—not just as a commitment to another person, who the ego may or may not “deserve” it—but as a commitment to God and to yourself.

The Gift of Change
By Marianne Williamson

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