Marianne Williamson Quotes
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We tend to have tremendous faith in the power of our disasters and far too little faith in the power of miracles.
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One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over.
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We tend to lack humility toward love, to patronize it rather than bow before it, to put mundane considerations before the emotional need to hold someone in our arms.
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The entire political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks inclusion. It lacks tenderness toward children. It lacks honor for relationships. It lacks reverence for the earth. It lacks love. And without those things, the feminine psyche disconnects.
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Hope is born of participation in hopeful solutions.
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I am a glorious child of God. I am joyful, serene, positive, and loving.
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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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My story has been the story of my generation.
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The people who have achieved more than you, in any area, are only a half step ahead of you in time. Bless them and praise their gifts, and bless and praise your own. The world would be less rich without their contributions, and it would be less rich without yours. There's more than room for everyone; in fact, there's a need for everyone.
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Our deepest need is to be seen.
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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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The solution to low self-esteem is to get over yourself and get a higher purpose.
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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.
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The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through.
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Ego says, "Once everything falls into place, I'll feel peace". Spirit says, "Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place".
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We're all assigned a piece of the garden, a corner of the universe that is ours to transform. Our corner of the universe is our own life - our relationships, our homes, our work, our current circumstances -. exactly as they are. Every situation we find ourselves in is an opportunity, perfectly planned by the Holy Spirit, to teach love instead of fear.
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Where there is peace, there cannot be chaos; the two cannot coexist at the same time.
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The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.
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When you understand the law of divine compensation, you realize that in the presence of spiritual consciousness, there is more than enough compensation for any diminishment in materiality.
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My biggest past mistakes have been when I made decisions out of ego rather than spirit. When I acted too quickly. When I wasn't contemplative or reflective or prayerful enough, and I ended up making what I would only later see to be unwise decisions.
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We're just afraid, period. Our fear is free-floating. We're afraid this isn't the right relationship or we're afraid it is. We're afraid they won't like us or we're afraid they will. We're afraid of failure or we're afraid of success. We're afraid of dying young or we're afraid of growing old. We're more afraid of life than we are of death.
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By my mid-20s, I was a total mess.
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It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
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The one good thing about failure is that it makes you consider doing things a different way.