Marianne Williamson Quotes
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I don't think that anyone can age in a conscious way and not experience grief.
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What we really need to avoid is this epidemic of false positivism and false happiness, which says if it hurts, it must be bad. Sometimes it hurts because you have a conscience.
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We embrace the idea -- advanced by both ancient philosophers and modern physicists -- that the world is one. Everything connects to everything; therefore, as we change, the world cannot but change with us.
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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.
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A relationship is more of an assignment than a choice. We can walk away from the assignment, but we cannot walk away from the lessons it presents. We stay with a relationship until a lesson is learned, or we simply learn it another way.
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May my heart be your shelter, and my arms be your home.
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The world is terrified of joyful women. Make a stand. Be one anyway.
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A real leader is not the top dog who merely shouts down orders. a leader is one who holds the space for the brilliance of others.
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To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.
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Try to see the good in others. When you're tempted to judge someone, make an effort to see their goodness. Your willingness to look for the best in people will subconsciously bring it forth.
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Love brings up everything unlike itself.
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Our deepest human need is not material at all. Our deepest need is to be seen.
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The man I love may decide tomorrow that he loves me no more - but if my heart remains open, I will endure the storm.
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My hope is that I'm getting better and wiser. With every book, I have more of myself to pour onto the page.
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By softening our attitudes, practicing mercy and compassion, we transform our lives by transforming other people's experience of us. Send love before you when you enter a room, and people will subconsciously feel it; they'll be prone to show greater kindness in return. That's how love makes things work better in our lives; it realigns the reactions of people and things around us.
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What is happening in politics today is a similar process to what happened in the medical world a few decades ago: realizing that there's more to healing than just addressing symptoms. Primary paradigm when it comes to dealing with political and social disease is allopathic: Pass a law, lock someone up, engage in warfare. And the state of the world today makes it clear that such allopathic measures have not exactly brought peace to all.
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The greatest force of personal liberation is the decision to widen our circle of compassion, moving from focus on self to focus on service.
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If I say to my daughter, "Go say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude," there is a reason there. I'm teaching her manners. I think the idea that she'll say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude only if she wants to is the biggest crock of silliness I've ever heard. Yet I meet people everyday who were clearly brought up to think that if they didn't want to say "hi" to Aunt Gertrude, that was fine.
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The force that keeps the planets revolving around the sun would be glad to handle the circumstances of your life, if only you would ask him to.
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In 2004, Kucinich was the only presidential candidate who warned that a war in Iraq would be completely disastrous. I remember how mocked he was when he predicted hand-to-hand combat in Baghdad. I remember Candy Crowley, and other reporters as well, treating his views on the impending war as ridiculous, out there, almost insane.
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Judaism is interesting in that there is something there that I think you just can't understand if you're not a Jew - it moves into a realm of true mystery.
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Life is hard enough, you don't have to embellish the drama!
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Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.
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Enlightenment is the only real antidote to the world's despair.