Marianne Williamson Quotes
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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 believe that the truth with a capital T is at the center of all the great religious teachings.
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The power to rethink a situation is our greatest tool for transforming the world. This notion is taking hold in medicine, in business, in education. But not in politics and the media. They are the last holdouts of old-paradigm thinking.
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Again--nothing you do or think or wish or make is necessary to establish your worth.
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In the name of feminism, we denied some essential aspects of our authentic selves. While feminism should have been nothing if not a celebration of our own unique characteristics, we insisted that we had no unique characteristics... that gender differences were hogwash, and a feminine woman was nothing more than a plaything for men.
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In my lifetime, we have lost a President, a Civil Rights leader and a Presidential candidate - all to gun violence.
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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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The places in our personality where we tend to deviate from love are not out faults, but our wounds. God doesn't want to punish us, but to heal us. And that is how He wishes us to view the wounds in other people.
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People don't usually come see me because things are going well.
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We need to recognize that part our political problem is that we do not participate effectively, that we suffer from a kind of mental slumber.
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The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one two things: either love, or a call for love.
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Our barriers to love are rarely consciously chosen. They are our efforts to protect the places where the heart is bruised.
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There are people today who look to fear to take us out of fear. But I believe that there are many, many more people who would look to love.
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A relationship is not meant to be the joining at the hip of two emotional invalids. The purpose of a relationship is not for two incomplete people to become one, but rather, for two complete people to join together for the greater glory of God.
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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.
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Those among us who have achieved the most have achieved only a fraction of what ALL of us are capable of. You haven't even begun to scratch the surface!
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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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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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When we stay close to the wisdom of our knowing, seeking solutions to our problems in the sanctuary of the heart and not in the vanity of the mind, then we can pretty much trust in the unfolding, mysterious wisdom of life.
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Certainly there is such a thing as chemical depression, and for that, obviously, there are issues that psychotherapists are much more expert at speaking to, but I think there is a low-grade depression that actually prevails in our society. And most of us feel it.
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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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I really got into Osho's books. I have always loved his books. They were top notch.
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Our spiritual mission is not to ignore the darkness, but to bring light TO the darkness. Ignoring darkness does not dispel it; only the light does. That is the difference between denial and transcendence.
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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.