Marianne Williamson Quotes
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We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be?
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The implication was that if you had any skepticism whatsoever, you were anti-science. I think there's a difference between having skepticism about science and having skepticism about the pharmaceutical industry.
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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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Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. When you choose to love, you choose to work miracles.
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In asking for miracles, we are seeking a practical goal: a return to inner peace. We’re not asking for something outside us to change, but for something inside us to change. We’re looking for a softer orientation to life.
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A certain desperation is usually necessary before we're ready for God... Until your knees finally hit the floor, you're just playing at life, and on some level you're scared because you know you're just playing. The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins.
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There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.
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Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life.
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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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We need to take responsibility for the effect of our environment on our nervous systems, and particularly the nervous systems of our children. No wonder so many of them are diagnosed with all the stuff they're diagnosed with today. Modern technology is a blessing to be sure, but it's also a curse if we allow it to pull us out of our spiritual center. A 24 hour electronic onslaught comes at the expense of our deep humanity and our deepest relationships.
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The issue is not whether or not you have that power, the issue is whether or not you use it.
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If we had the government we deserved we would have the most righteous government, because we deserve the best - everybody does.
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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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People don't usually come see me because things are going well.
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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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To the extent to which we believe in this world, we are heir to the laws which rule this place.
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What we are left with then is the present, the only time where miracles happen. We place the past and the future as well into the hands of God. The biblical statement that “time shall be no more” means that we will one day live fully in the present, without obsessing about past or future.
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Again--nothing you do or think or wish or make is necessary to establish your worth.
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Unforgiveness is like drinking poison yourself and waiting for the other person to die.
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Where there is peace, there cannot be chaos; the two cannot coexist at the same time.
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Some things need to be let go before other things can be let in.
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What we give, we will receive, and what we withhold will be withheld from us.
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There is a trend in child-rearing that I find abhorrent: "Whatever the kids want to do is fine." For me, the classic example of this is when someone has a visitor and says, "Go kiss Aunt Gertrude," and Aunt Gertrude says, "She doesn't have to kiss me if she doesn't want to." Well, I think that's wrong.
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I went into therapy several times, but it rarely made an impact.