Marianne Williamson Quotes
I believe the human race is ready to make a quantum leap forward spiritually and morally.
America is a great country, and we've done a lot of good in the world. But we are a collection of people, not saints. We have our own sins to atone for.
It's soul force that removed the English from India. It's soul force that brought down the Berlin Wall. It's soul force that gave life to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle for civil rights.
Sometimes we think, "We're the only people who see it this way," but that's really not the case.
We need love - an awesome love grounded in the evolutionary potential for life on Earth - to become the organizing principle for human society.
I am a student of universal spiritual principles, and I read theology and spiritual writings, so my grasp of basic spiritual principles is fairly good.
I think you have to grieve the loss of youth before you can claim the joy on the other side of it.
Sometimes you are lifted up to the mountaintop as a gift from the universe, so you can see what is possible. Then you are put down back at the bottom: Now you have to earn it for yourself.
I think that every moment you succumb to cynicism, you're taking energy away from change.
When somebody comes up to you and shows you yellow underlining of something you wrote, that's such a high. It's a connection to others.
The problem with most intimate relationships is that they are not romantic. They do not involve a deeper knowing, and thus there is diminished possibility of sacred, transformative sharing.
To be truly seen and understood - in all our innocence and glory and yes, our brokenness, too - is to be delivered into the spiritual ethers where both seen and seer are healed.
To become romantic artists, we must pierce the armor that hides our hearts, and the piercing is not comfortable.
We arrogantly assume that the nervous system doesn't really need to be coaxed into romance. That romance comes from some other place.
Because our consciousness is tied to the physical manifestation of reality, we are tied to the belief in separation.
To the extent to which we believe in this world, we are heir to the laws which rule this place.
If we come to see that this world does not have the final word, then we open our mind and therefore our entire lives to experience the possibility of infinite possibilities.
When many people think of "new age" they think of crystals and purple decals and ceramic angels in people's windows and a kind of fuzzy thinking - which is abhorrent to a serious person.
I think it's unfortunate how many people today try to build up their own careers by denigrating the work of others.
The fact that the commercial success of my books has allowed me to buy a house for myself and my daughter I think is a lovely thing. I don't think there is anything wrong with that.
I don't think of myself as a very famous person, but the modicum of celebrity that I've had has not been a positive experience for me at all.
I don't think that my twenties were any more dramatic than those of most people I know. I was never that bad and I never became that good.
If there is anything interesting about my story it's the fact that it's not unique at all. I feel that I have been through what almost everyone I know has - a slow and gradual maturation process.
Anybody can be heard. Anyone can express their truths. And communication is possible without the confines of the body.
I feel that as women we've allowed ourselves to be deluded by certain ideas that hold us back, such as the over-glorification of masculine consciousness.
Real liberation for men means that they can explore and integrate their feminine aspects of consciousness.
I also think the women's movement has unintentionally contributed to the dishonoring of motherhood. It happened because we made such a big deal about our right to go out into the world.
Some of the most patriarchal thinkers I know are women. Some of the most feminist thinkers are men.
If I had to choose between a narrow-minded woman or a man who was an enlightened thinker, I would vote for the man.
People involved in the inner journey discover the value of the feminine, the spiritually receptive and inclusive aspect of human consciousness.
For what we engage, we transform. And what we engage with our hearts is transformed forever.
The pain itself is a product or a reflection of how I am interpreting whatever it is that is causing me pain.
I honor my grief. I try to be kinder to myself. I give myself time to move through and to process whatever is making me sad.
If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience.
I can't say that there are "things" that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive.
Once the Western mind was disconnected from its sense of divine responsibility and genuine reverence towards nature, all hell broke loose. And that’s where we are now.
The fate of the world rests on this one thing: our capacity to actualize our spiritual potential, and quickly.
If you allow yourself to deepen with midlife, your experience of everything deepens, including your experience of God.
I don't think of spiritual principle as a struggle. I think of life lived without spiritual principles as a struggle.
Living in this world, under the dominance of the ego mind, is difficult. That's the struggle.
When you understand the law of divine compensation, you realize that in the presence of spiritual consciousness, there is more than enough compensation for any diminishment in materiality.