Marianne Williamson Quotes

Choosing joy involves spiritual surrender, and sometimes we would rather hold on to the pain than surrender our egos.

Gandhi said the end is inherent in the means, which means you cannot create any more peace than you yourself have attained. An angry generation will not bring peace.

A Course in Miracles tells us that although 'we think that without the ego, all would be chaos, the opposite is true. Without the ego, all would be love.'

Painful experiences are not meant to linger. They are meant to teach us what they need to teach us, and then dissolve.

The world is terrified of joyful women. Make a stand. Be one anyway.

Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.

We are all part of a vast sea of love. One indivisible mind.

The more you drop into your heart, the more God can drop into your mind.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it.

God heard us. He sent help. He sent you.

No company or organization filled with unhappy people will ultimately rise to its highest potential.

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.

Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.

Faith isn't blind, it's visionary

Today is a day for sober and mature reflection, not glee. Mindless celebration is both spiritually inappropriate and politically naive.

Miracles are happening all the time, but if your eyes aren't open and your ears aren't open and your mind's not open and your heart's not open - then even though the miracles are there - you're not!

Whatever we put out, it's coming back to us. The universe keeps a perfect set of books.

Think of the most amazing thing you could possibly do with your life. Then say out loud, 'YES.'

I don't think pain is a prerequisite for growth, but on the other hand, most of us choose very painful ways to learn.

The biggest problem is our lack of "response-ability." That’s what happens when money rather than love is the bottom line. People act like idiots.

We need more than new policies. We need a new worldview, and a new bottom line. We need to replace economic values as our ordering principle, with humanitarian values as our ordering principle.

Every relationship is a gift exchange.

Only what I am not giving can be lacking in any situation.

We shouldn’t use our own upset as an excuse for not helping.

Those among us who have achieved the most have achieved only a fraction of what ALL of us are capable of. You haven't even begun to scratch the surface!

As long as there are ways we can serve, then we have a job to do.

In our ability to think about something differently lies the power to make it different.

...available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy.

Dear God, I surrender this thought to you, for I would see the miracle that lies behind it. Amen.

Sometimes sadness is appropriate. Not something to run from, not something to numb...just something to feel.

Forgiveness is 'selective remembering'--a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go.

There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people

Lives with no more sense of spiritual meaning than that provided by shopping malls, ordinary television, and stagnant workplaces are barren lives indeed. Spirituality enriches culture.

Conviction is a force multiplier. If you want something, claim it in your gut. The universe itself responds to your inner certainty.

We shouldn’t come up with a pseudo-spiritual excuse for turning away from the pain of the world.

Motherly love - putting the care of children before every other consideration - is the ultimate intelligence of nature.

Children are one of the greatest lessons in happiness, constantly challenging us to enjoy the moment, as the next one will not be the same.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you.

[God is] an all-encompassing love that is the source of all, the reality of all, and the being through which I am.

The role of a leader is not to rule over other people, but to hold a space for their own genius.

Fear is trusting in your own power.

You've committed no sins, just mistakes.

You're not to wallow, but if you don't process your regrets, then they remain emotional underground toxins.

Some things need to be let go before other things can be let in.

Achievement doesn't come from what we do, but from who we are. Our worldly power results from our personal power. Our career is an extension of our personality.

The love is real in any situation; everything else is just an illusion.

The issue of spiritual power is to meet the limited mortal circumstance with unlimited thought.

The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.

Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface.

Your future isn't programmed by your past; it's programmed by your thoughts.