Marianne Williamson Quotes
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Everyone, archetypally, is a parent to future generations.
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Today, most Americans are too cynical, or tired, or both, to even approximate our Founders' courageous repudiation of injustice.
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Feminine power isn't something we go out and acquire; it's already within us. It's something we become willing to experience. Something to admit we have.
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There's only one of us here: What we give to others, we give to ourselves. What we withhold from others, we withhold from ourselves. In any moment, when we choose fear instead of love, we deny ourselves the experience of Paradise.
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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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People sometimes see an image and without knowing the surrounding patterns draw false conclusions.
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What we give, we will receive, and what we withhold will be withheld from us.
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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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The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.
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Actually, who are you not to be?
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Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.
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No matter how sad we might be, the universe is still planning our happiness.
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We're hallucinating. And that's what this world is: a mass hallucination, where fear seems more real than love. Fear is an illusion. Our craziness, paranoia, anxiety and trauma are literally all imagined.
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The whole Obama phenomenon brings up memories from my distant past: the good-looking guy who talks real good, whose line you don't buy immediately but whose charm is so dazzling that he gradually convinces you that this time it will be different.
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After decades of declining influence on the affairs of the world, there is once again a widespread consideration of spritual principles as an antidote to the pain of our times.
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Viewing Israelis and Palestinians from a psychological perspective, they would both be seen as victims of abuse; that is how they both understandably feel, and it's how they both understandably behave. The Jewish psyche is in victimized reaction to the Holocaust, and the Palestinian psyche is in victimized reaction to the Israelis.
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I think the greatest gift we can give our children is the experience of deep quiet. If we don't help our children cultivate contemplation, reflection, prayer, meditation, or whatever other practice of mindfulness, then they're likely to be completely spun out of their center by the time they're in grade school.
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As citizens of the United States, we are stewards of this magnificent thing called democracy.
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My biggest sorrow, when looking back on my youth, is how much of it I somehow missed. Now, looking at my life today, I don't want to make the same mistake. I don't want to miss this. As Bonnie Raitt sang like she was singing it for all of us, "Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste."
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From a mind filled with infinite love comes the power to create infinite possibilities. We have the power to think in ways that reflect and attract all the love in the world. Such thinking is called enlightenment. Enlightenment is not a process we work toward, but a choice available to us in any instant.
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No matter what I write or speak about, it always has some connection to how our spiritual understanding impacts the world we live in. Whether I'm writing or teaching about nutrition, pilates, green living or meditation, all topics simmer down to self thought and intention.
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Love knows how to form itself. God will do his work if we do ours. Our job is to prepare ourselves for love. When we do, love finds us every time.
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If you allow your perceptions to be dominated by a status-quo perspective these thought forms create a network of status-quo mental habit patterns.
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Light is to darkness what love is to fear; in the presence of one the other disappears.