Marianne Williamson Quotes

I do think that every generation has its unique story.

At midlife, you're pregnant with the best self you can be - someone who has learned enough from both successes and failures to add up to a fine human being.

I don't believe the United States is going through a midlife crisis. The United States is going through an adolescent crisis.

I am trying to be in that alchemical soup of human transformation. I am trying to process, reconcile, forgive, let go, and grieve, when necessary.

I think there is a place where self-awareness becomes self-preoccupation if you don't take what you have discovered and bring it to bear on the conditions of the world.

Life is a constant back-and-forth. We take a breath in and then we breathe out. The same is true for the culture as a whole.

Capitalism has been really good to me. I'm very fortunate: I have written books and my books have sold.

For a society as abundant and as blessed as ours, to have as many disadvantaged children as we have does not bode well for our long-term economic future.

I don't like the tendency on the part of so many people today to think that those who don't agree with them are bad. In fact, I find that very dangerous.

If we had the government we deserved we would have the most righteous government, because we deserve the best - everybody does.

I feel that if your soul was branded by the sixties, you never lost the brand. It's like going into a nightclub and having your hand stamped so that you don't have to come back but you can come back.

The word "politics" comes from the Greek politeia which had to do with the citizenry, not the government.

To me, everything happening inside of us is political.

Anything having to do with what is happening inside people has political significance to me. That is why I like the term "holistic politics."

We need to recognize that part our political problem is that we do not participate effectively, that we suffer from a kind of mental slumber.

There is an increasingly pervasive sense that one age is over and a new one is beginning - in business, in politics, in science, in psychology.

The love is what's left at the end because it's the bedrock, fundamental reality that gets hidden all the time, but never really goes away.

Only God’s thoughts, or love, is actually real. So when we separate ourselves from that love, we’re actually not thinking at all: we’re hallucinating.

I just want to write books or give talks which, if I were in the audience or I were the reader, I would appreciate.

Newtonian physics is over. You don't act on the world to change the world. You realize the world is a projection of your inner self. If you change, the world changes.

Love is all around us all the time. Love is the ethers that we swim in. Love is the amniotic fluid of the soul.

Any time we read a newspaper or take any look at the world around us, we are aware of the cruelty and violence that dominates our world.

The transformation from body identification to spirit identification is the purpose of our lives.

My father was a deeply committed humanitarian. He was a fighter for social justice. He was spirited in the deepest sense.

I had an experience that probably is shared by many parents. When my daughter was born, I felt viscerally connected to generations before and after me in a way that took me by surprise.

The end does not justify the means. If we try to be someone we are not in order to achieve a result, then the result cannot help but be something other than what we intended.

The more mature we are, the more receptive we are.

People don't usually come see me because things are going well.

We think that because we dwell inside our bodies that we are separate from other people who dwell inside theirs.

At the highest level of awareness, the greatest gift given and received when you give someone flowers, is the joy of living a life based on love.

The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life.

The world as it is perceived by most people, is a world of finite resources.

If you allow your perceptions to be dominated by a status-quo perspective these thought forms create a network of status-quo mental habit patterns.

By the time something reaches the cover of Time magazine, it's old news anyway.

Our most meaningful conversations go on late at night when we're on the phone with our friends or talking to our lovers.

Citizens should be looked to for what they can give of their own nobility, virtue, creative thinking, passion, and natural talent for community building and relating to others.

The sense of endings as well as beginnings in the air is now so obvious in so many dimensions of our experience that a critical mass has been reached.

People sometimes see an image and without knowing the surrounding patterns draw false conclusions.

I'm not bowled over by how different all the world's religions are - I'm bowled over by how similar they are.

In the Kabbala, it says that we receive the light in order to impart the light, and thus we repair the world.

You receive the light through what you read, through what you hear in meditation, or through some spiritual practice.

Yes, hardships come. But I see in my life and in the lives of others how often something that does not have to be held as a hardship is dealt with by the mind as though it is.

There is nothing spiritual about complacency.

Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for.

We can invoke spiritual compensation when we find ourselves in situations of material lack.

Increasing meaning and joy on the planet is the ultimate goal because within that space all evil is cast out.

Love itself compensates for any diminishment.

If you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - because a nation is simply a large group of individuals.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

A spiritual reinterpretation of events gives us miraculous authority to command the winds, to part the waters, and to break all chains that bind us.