Marianne Williamson Quotes
The bottom line in love is not whether someone loves you, but whether someone chooses you.
Political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks tenderness. It lacks poetry. It doesn't nurture. It doesn't love. And without those things, a woman's soul is bereft.
Liberation also means that even though I'm a woman I have masculine parts of my temperament which I can safely explore and integrate into my experience.
What is happening today is that there are millions of children who are not lifted up to the first rung of the ladder. Then they are condemned when they don't know how to climb from there.
Love is not neutral. It takes a stand. It is a commitment to the attainment of the conditions of peace for everyone involved in a situation.
We need to change society's ordering principle from economic to humanitarian values, from money as the bottom line to love as the bottom line.
I'm not a doom-and-gloom person. But I think there is a difference between transcendence and denial, and much of the Western world is in major denial today.
I think we all need to be looking to the better angels of our own selves. We don't need to be looking for great people so much as becoming great people.
I don't think making love the new bottom line is naïve; I believe that thinking we can survive the next hundred years doing anything less, is naïve.
Given how deeply the ways of war have penetrated our collective consciousness, it will take spiritual power to turn the issue around.
Do what you love. Do what makes your heart sing. And NEVER do it for the money, Go to work to spread joy.
The voices of fear are so loud today. The voices of love should never shout, but neither should they whisper - not at a time like this.
If you think humanity can get itself out of all this mess without divine help, then you're not being hopeful - you're hallucinating.
What a Beethoven, Shakespeare or Picasso has done is not create something, so much as they have accessed that place within themselves from which they could express that which has been created by God.
Anyone who is speaking of a greater compassion, a greater humanitarian concern, is a leader paving the path we all need to follow.
I feel that the social revolution of the sixties is like a revolving door that came our way, and then left. It's back again.
I think the violence in the world right now is being reflected inside people. And I also believe the violence inside people is being reflected in the world.
You get to the point where you realize that unless you, yourself, become more of the change, you can't create too much change.
People who hate often do so with great conviction. What we need are more people who love with conviction.
Our problem is not that we don't have power, so much as that we tend to not use the power we have.
As you get older, you have more and more layers of experience to forgive, more layers of heartbreak, more layers of what you might think of as failure.
Again--nothing you do or think or wish or make is necessary to establish your worth.
Always be open to new beginnings. To the universe, every moment is the start of the next big thing in your life.
A change of heart leads to change in behavior, and a change in behavior leads to changing the world.
I believe that the truth with a capital T is at the center of all the great religious teachings.
No true search for enlightenment ignores the suffering of other sentient beings. Ever. We simply need to create a way to address that suffering while remaining in a blissful center.
The power to be at peace - not because of anything your physical senses perceive, and sometimes in spite of what your physical senses perceive - is the power to help heal this world miraculously.
Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close.
Once you reach a certain age, you're either slowly dying or slowly being reborn. I want to choose the latter.
No company or organization filled with unhappy people will ultimately rise to its highest potential.
Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.
When a woman gives birth, two are born: a baby from the womb of its mother and a woman from the womb of her former existence.
