Marianne Williamson Quotes

We're all assigned a piece of the garden, a corner of the universe that is ours to transform.

When we think with love, we are literally co-creating with God.

Yes, whatever happened, happened; but what happens now is up to you. You can respond from ego, ensuring pain, or you can respond from spirit, ensuring a miracle.

Where there is peace, there cannot be chaos; the two cannot coexist at the same time.

Making our goal anything other than peace is emotionally self-destructive.

The desire for transcendence is intimately connected with the desire for creativity. It is just as essential to who and what we are.

Don't go to work to make money; go to work to spread joy.

What the ego doesn't want us to see is that our pain doesn't come from the love we weren't given in the past, but from the love we ourselves aren't giving in the present.

Accepting people as they are has the miraculous effect of helping them improve. Acceptance doesn't prohibit growth; rather, it fosters it.

Instead of praying: 'Dear God, bring me someone fabulous,' try: 'Dear God, make me into someone fabulous.'

If you want to attract the coolest man in the world become the coolest woman in the world.

The outer kingdom is not our real home. The inner kingdom is our everything.

You can live in your total potential creative capacity in an instant-with your heart open to give and receive love.

Physical circumstances have very little to do with either our capacity to love or to attract love.

I've never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching.

In that Holy Place where you tell Him everything and he understands; there are angels who stand in wait to hear his every command. How may they serve you and increase your joy?

Every ending is a new beginning. Through the grace of God, we can always start again. (Page 120.)

Angels are thoughts of God--to pray to an angel is to look to a level of pure thinking, divine thinking, and to ask that it replace our thoughts of fear. (Page 27.)

The love that saves us is not a love that might come to us in the future, but rather the love we can give to whomever is around us right now.

Thought that is no longer limited, brings experience that is no longer limited

Imagine that anything is possible, and name the most amazing thing that could happen in 2013.

The only feelings you really need to fear are those you ignore.

Who we are, not just the services and products we provide, creates money.

What emerges from the silence is the deafening sound of an old world disintegrating.

Love is insistent on its own continuation. Every fraction of a second, someone somewhere falls in love, a former enemy becomes a friend, and a newborn baby is born into the world.

We are always pregnant with a truer version of ourselves.

Without nourishing our own souls, we can't nourish the world, for we cannot give what we do not have. As we attend to our souls, we emanate invisibly and involuntarily the light we have received.

It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.

Yes, we see that there are problems in the world. But we believe in a universal force that, when activated by the human heart, has the power to make all things right.

So it is that a new politics centers around the arousal of that power, using prayer and meditation to create a force field of transformation.

The concept of a divine, or 'Christ'-mind, is the idea that, at our core, we are not just identical, but actually the same being.

The purpose of prayer is the alignment of the mind with the thoughts and the will of God.

The miracle-minded perception would be to make happiness itself our goal and to relinquish the thought that we know what that would look like.

Each time we consider a miracle impossible, or assume that we ourselves are not capable of working it, then we're choosing not to take flight.

The way I see it, we teach our children through modeling.

Ultimately, my daughter is not going to learn from what I do, not from what I say. For better or for worse. I see that everyday.

I believe we are shown the path that is right as soon as we ask for it. Then we must live in the world and in some way express what we have learned.

We are likely to feel better when we go to bed tonight if we have an internal sense that we spent our lives meaningfully today.

Experience is necessary for us to grow.

Life is hard enough, you don't have to embellish the drama!

I think optimism is a moral imperative.

I think the vast majority of Americans would have supported military action to stop the second plane from hitting the World Trade Center, if that had been possible. I would have been among them.

The human race is almost addicted to war. It's like we just can't stop.

Generation after generation can't just be loaded with more and more nuclear weapons and not ultimately dance to that music.

The only antidote to chaos is peace itself.

The goal of the spiritual activist is to find inner peace even in externally chaotic circumstances.

Humanity's mission is to find a peace that lies beyond the veil - a peace that is not of this world. The peace that is not of this world is not dependent on human circumstances.

I have hope, because I believe in miracles.

I believe the universe presents more options to a more loving mind.

I believe there is an evolutionary impulse toward good that is etched on every human heart. It is placed there by the hand of God.