Marianne Williamson Quotes
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Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.
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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.
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If you think humanity can get itself out of all this mess without divine help, then you're not being hopeful - you're hallucinating.
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Obviously, our political system is profoundly corrupted by, among other things, the influence of money. But, at a deeper level, the current structure is flawed because it looks to citizens for only two things - votes and money. I don't think we will see any healing until citizens are viewed in a whole new way.
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We aren't bodies at all; who we are is the love inside us, and it is that love alone that determines our value. When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness.
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I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.
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Every time we open our hearts, we create the space for a global alternative.
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I honor my grief. I try to be kinder to myself. I give myself time to move through and to process whatever is making me sad.
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Our greatest hope is for the experience of joy, and often we are not as smart as we think we are when it comes to predicting what would bring us that joy. . . Hope that is attached to a particular outcome is looking for pleasure but fishing for pain, because attachment itself is a source of pain. It is best to hope for an experience of life in all its fullness-a life that can embrace both joy and sorrow, and will still be at peace.
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My self healing lies in praying for those who have harmed me.
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Any conversation which does not include the context of the journey of the heart is by definition untrue to who we are as human beings.
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There is nothing that a military machine can do to work a miracle.
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Our deepest need is to be seen.
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If a train doesn't stop at your station, then it's not your train.
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Often on a journey of spiritual transformation, that is ultimately what heals the pain: the veil is removed from in front of our own eyes and we see where we had been thinking thoughts that would inevitably lead to pain. Until we change those thoughts, the pain will remain.
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There is nowhere you need go to find God, for God is within you. There is no one you need ask if you are good enough, for He has already established He is exceedingly well pleased.
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Life is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like the end of a chapter, on some level setting up the beginning of another.
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Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth.
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Forgiveness is the stroke of God within us. The American people haven't ignored what he did. He asked for forgiveness and the American people gave it to him. Theirs is the higher morality.
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I was very much a child of the 1960s. I protested the Vietnam War and grew up in a fairly politicized home. My father was like a cross between William Kunstler and Zorba the Greek. I grew up among left-wing lawyers.
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When we stop trying to control events, they fall into a natural order, an order that works. We're at rest while a power much greater than our own takes over, and it does a much better job than we could have done. We learn to trust that the power that holds galaxies together can handle the circumstances of our relatively little lives.
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I now see that is a woman's God-given role to tend to the home and take care of the children: it's just that the entire planet is our home, and every child on it is one of our children.
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Miracles begin when we consider the possibility that there might be another way.
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I know. And that's what took me so long.