Marianne Williamson Quotes
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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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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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I think moral outrage is born not of anger but of love. It comes from the highest in us, not from a low-level sense of anger or cynicism.
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We're often afraid to do anything unless we know we can do it extremely well. But we get to Carnegie Hall by practicing. I remember how freeing it was several years ago to read in an interview with Joan Baez that some of Bob Dylan's early songs weren't so wonderful. We have this image of genius springing fully grown out of Zeus' forehead.
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Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life.
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The world is in trouble. Many have prayed. God sent help. God sent you.
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We are always impacting the world...through our presence, energy, interactions - what kind of impact are we having?
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Whatever worked in the past, build on it; whatever didn't work in the past, break the chain that binds you to it.
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Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.
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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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At their peak, religion and psychotherapy become one.
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People who have life-challenging experiences who choose to remain invested in a consistent catastrophic interpretation are not the ones I meet. I have met many more people who have recognized how vital it is to their healing and to the quality of their life to interpret their experiences differently. That is why some of the people I've met who have life-challenging illnesses are much happier than some people I've known who are physically quite healthy and yet who live lives of greater desperation and depression.
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The opportunities for infinite possibility exist no matter what age we are.
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I really got into Osho's books. I have always loved his books. They were top notch.
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I feel that the term "new age" is used by basically hostile media to diminish and marginalize a conversation that is very significant. It's held in place by journalists who are constantly looking for hooks and sound bites to keep them from having to make the effort of a deeper understanding and a more profound level of communication with the public.
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Imagine everything you're experiencing now being a hundred times more wonderful. Bad turns good; good turns great. THAT IS WHAT IS POSSIBLE.
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We are all part of a vast sea of love. One indivisible mind.
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For many people, God is a frightening idea. Asking God for help doesn't seem very comforting if we think of Him as something outside ourselves, or capricious, or judgmental. But God is love and He dwells within us. We are created in His image, or mind, which means that we are extensions of His love, or Sons and Daughters of God.
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You can live your life out of a circumstance or you can live your life out of a vision.
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My father's politics were old-fashioned in the sense that he used to say, all the time, "You've got to fight the system!" But my spiritual beliefs have led me to believe that the fight is the problem.
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The word "politics" comes from the Greek politeia which had to do with the citizenry, not the government.
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Most women I know are priestesses and healers... We are, all of us, sisters of a mysterious order.
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Once we truly understand that God's will is that we be happy, we no longer feel the need to ask for anything other than that God's will be done.
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Desperately seeking something is not what attracts it to us. When we dwell, in deep peace and kindness, whatever would add to our happiness just flows to our door.