Marianne Williamson Quotes
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The solution to low self-esteem is to get over yourself and get a higher purpose.
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The sense of endings as well as beginnings in the air is now so obvious in so many dimensions of our experience that a critical mass has been reached.
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Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life.
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The only feelings you really need to fear are those you ignore.
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Creating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don't want.
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If we lose a job, we are easily tempted into thoughts like, "Ain't it awful? There aren't any jobs out there. This is terrible. It'll be awhile before the economy comes back. Even if they're hiring someone, they're not hiring someone my age with my resume." And that's really what causes the crash and burn. The fact is, there are Fortune 500 companies that have been founded during recessions.
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No matter what mistakes we might have made yesterday, today is the day we can retrieve our innocence.
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I didn't realize that running as an independent would be perceived as a threat to the Democrats.
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God's truth is literal truth. The illumined mind has more operative cells. In reclaiming the mystical, we take back our whole selves. Formerly barren mental lands spring to new life through the planting of spiritual seeds.
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The purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us.
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Every decision you make reflects your evaluation of who you are.
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For every person who might reject you if you live your truth, there are ten others who will embrace you and welcome you home.
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When a woman falls in love with the magnificent possibilities within herself, the forces that would limit those possibilities hold less and less sway over her.
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People sometimes see an image and without knowing the surrounding patterns draw false conclusions.
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The real axis of social change is not horizontal, but vertical. We don't need a whole bunch of people gathering to think shallow thoughts together. What we need is for as many people as are ready to gather and think deep thoughts together.
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Painful experiences are not meant to linger. They are meant to teach us what they need to teach us, and then dissolve.
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The way to have the life we want is to receive more deeply the life we have. Sometimes we keep our own life at arm's length, thinking we'll wait until circumstances improve before giving it all we've got. But life is just a reflection of consciousness, so it's never going to give any more to us than we give to it. Don't wait for a perfect life; breathe in the life that's already perfect.
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The miracle-minded perception would be to make happiness itself our goal and to relinquish the thought that we know what that would look like.
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Unforgiveness is like drinking poison yourself and waiting for the other person to die.
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In the century now dawning, spirituality, visionary consciousness, and the ability to build and mend human relationships will be more important for the fate and safety of this nation than our capacity to forcefully subdue an enemy. Creating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don't want.
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In each of us, there lies a divine connection to a power more powerful than hate or violence. Today is the day to attune to that power and use it on behalf of peace on earth.
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You don't have to pray to attract great things, because great things are attracted to you already. Pray that you won't throw them away once they get here.
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You will fear the darkness only to the extent that you yourself are not providing light.
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As difficult as it can be to find genuine inner calm, it is the key to creating peace in the world as we know it. The world will not change until we do, and there is nothing the world can deliver to us that will give us the peace we crave. Peace comes not from the world, but from God.