Marianne Williamson Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

You've committed no sins, just mistakes.

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

Higher thought forms trump lower ones. In the presence of a high frequency of human consciousness, all lower thought forms ultimately drop of their own dead weight.

People tend to have a government that reflects the level of consciousness of the majority of people who voted.

What I think about you, I will not be able to escape thinking about myself, and what I do to you, I will not be able to escape experiencing myself.

We don't need to fight the forces of chaos so much as we need to restore and revitalize the forces of peace.

Many people are despairing of the possibility of finding love. And some of the people who are despairing the most are in their thirties and forties and looking just great.

There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people

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.

A holy relationship is where the brokenness and wounds of the world are not escaped so much as as transformed by love, not hidden from but risen above.

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

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

Carrying the past in to the present, we program the future to continue the past. Letting go the past in the present, we free the future to be something else.

Never think you can separate who you are from what you're doing.

The deepest feelings always show itself in silence.

Next time you're about to judge someone, attempt to understand them instead.

Forgiving the past means remembering the love there, and releasing all the rest as the illusion that it really was.

Become more accepting. With every interaction, surrender any tendency to judge another person. Pray for a more accepting heart.

Some people think it's naive to think we can make love our new bottom line. What I believe is naive is thinking human civilization as we know it will survive another two hundred years if we do not.

Sobriety itself is today's high, for it is ultimately in the most centered consciousness that we find our power to transcend the world.

I think the greatest gift we can give our children is to show them that devotion to God's purposes - love for all beings - is the center of all right living.

When we surrender to God, we let go of our attachment to how things happen on the outside, and we become more concerned with what happens on the inside.

The world is in trouble. Many have prayed. God sent help. God sent you.

Great people are not people who have never fallen down. Greatness has to do with how you get back up.

It's the beginning of your day. You awake and look around you, feeling perhaps a joyful expectation, or perhaps an awful dread. No matter which, remember this: God loves you with an infinite love.

The only thing missing in any situation is that in which you are not giving

Gender or skin color does not of itself determine the nature of a person's thinking.

Do not fear. Look beyond what's dying to what's being born.

Cynicism is just an excuse for not helping.

No matter what mistakes we might have made yesterday, today is the day we can retrieve our innocence.

Life as we knew it is passing away, and something new is emerging to take its place, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life.

It isn't courageous to go forth when you don't know the dangers. But it's very courageous to go forth when you do.

The spiritual commitment is to make every situation an object of devotional connection.

Sometimes a miracle is a change in material conditions, such as physical healing. At other times, it is a psychological or emotional change.

The Light in you is the unalterable truth of who you are. You can deny it and obscure it, but you cannot uncreate it.

The world as we know it is falling apart at the seams, because it's an inadequate container for the truth of who we are.

The past doesn't determine your future unless you carry it with you into the present. Forgiving yourself and others, you free the universe to begin again at any moment.

As we give, so shall we receive. Service does not mean self-sacrifice. It means giving the needs of another person the same priority as our own.

Fear is a psychic tyrant that has no intention of letting its slave go free. It will say whatever it needs to say to confuse your thinking... It will always seek to preserve itself.

In a choice between love and fear, choose love.

If you have a longing in your heart to hear a deeper truth, there's a mysterious way in which that truth will find you.

Much like a GPS, love re-calibrates itself if you've made a wrong turn.

You have to make a space in your heart, in your mind and in your life itself for authentic human connection.

If I'm honest with myself, I think it's probably true I have learned more in my life through pain than through joy. But hopefully that's changing.

The Queen is coming to reclaim her girls.