Marianne Williamson Quotes
Whomever it is you were born to be, whatever your soul was coded to accomplish, whatever lessons you were born to learn, now is the time to get serious and get going.
Midlife is not the time to disenchant ourselves. It's a time to turn on all our magic in full force.
I think those of us on a spiritual journey can help create a new conversation, a new America, and a new world.
I think moral outrage is born not of anger but of love. It comes from the highest in us, not from a low-level sense of anger or cynicism.
I think we're ripe for social revolution now. There is the necessary yearning, and the necessary, or at least incipient, outrage. And there is an inchoate knowing that all is not right.
When the heart is pierced, there is pain, yes, but also an invitation to a greater becoming.
My hope is that I'm getting better and wiser. With every book, I have more of myself to pour onto the page.
A hero is someone who stands in the community and speaks their hopes and speaks their passion. That's almost an act of heroism nowadays because higher consciousness is so trivialized.
Even though modern life in many ways is nothing short of exhausting, we need to take responsibility for what is necessary to combat the stress and exhaustion of modern life.
To me, liberation doesn't mean that I can think just like a man. Real liberation means that I can think, act, and be like a woman and receive equal respect, honor, and compensation.
Hopefully, I will emerge more shining. If I have that good fortune, if I am blessed in that way - and I do feel I am in the middle of the blessing - then I have faith my service will be greater.
We are living at an extraordinary time in human history. And for many of us things are great. Things are great for me.
The fact is, there are Fortune 500 companies that have been founded during recessions.
We are here to repair the world. I grew up thinking that was what everybody was trying to do.
I think that's what we all want on this earth - to feel that at some level we have connected with other human beings.
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.
Relationships never end, because they're of the mind; only bodies can separate. When you're missing someone, know it just means that on a soul level they've come to visit.
These are very serious times, and serious people need to be doing some serious thinking.
The U.S. incarcerates more of its people than any nation in the world, or any nation in history.
We must seek to be intellectually inclusive, just as we seek to be culturally inclusive. Ideas come and go - that's what makes a free society so vital.
We need more than a new politics; what we need is a new worldview. We need a fundamentally different bottom line.
We need to shift from an economic to a humanitarian organizing principle for human civilization. And women, en masse, should be saying so.
Our challenge is to not look away, but rather to transform the field; to create a new political conversation, our own conversation, out of which we can speak our truth in our own way.
To trust in the force that moves the universe is faith. Faith isn't blind, it's visionary.
After decades of declining influence on the affairs of the world, there is once again a widespread consideration of spritual principles as an antidote to the pain of our times.
Relationships are our primary teacher. They are the context in which we either grow into God consciousness, or deny ourselves and others the opportunity to do so.
The Founders didn't mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washington in essence warned us against them in his Farewell Address.
Hatred is the spiritual malignancy of our species, and like any other form of cancer, does its most terrible work not outwardly, but from within us.
When we approach love and creativity with the level of conviction that the powers-that-be in the world today are approaching hatred and destruction, then and only then will we have a chance.
Imagine everything you're experiencing now being a hundred times more wonderful. Bad turns good; good turns great. THAT IS WHAT IS POSSIBLE.
Feminine power isn't something we go out and acquire; it's already within us. It's something we become willing to experience. Something to admit we have
The world we knew as children is still buried within our minds. Our childlike self is the deepest level of our being. It is who we really are, and what is real doesn't go away.
Depression might have chosen you, but you don't have to choose it back. Sometimes happiness comes with bootstraps, but so what? Pull 'em up. Choose joy.
A long-term romance is like a rose bush. In any given season, a blossom might fall off. But if the plant is well nourished, then the season will come around again, and new blossoms appear.
The universe is wired to give us what we need, yet we have to show up for the experience of life with a positive attitude in order to experience its gifts.
There is nothing Madison Avenue can give us that will make us more beautiful women. We are beautiful because God created us that way.
Every day can be like Christmas in its love and its peace if our hearts open up and make room for love. The holy child is waiting to be born in every instant, not just once a year.
Sometimes the purpose of a day is to merely feel our sadness, knowing that as we do, we allow whole layers of grief, like old skin cells to drop off us