Marianne Williamson Quotes
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The outer kingdom is not our real home. The inner kingdom is our everything.
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Spiritual progress is like a detoxification.
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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 think future generations will see the invention of the Internet as having been as important as the invention of the printing press. It's the democratizing tool of all tools. As long as no one can control the flow of information, then freedom always has a chance.
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Who we are, not just the services and products we provide, creates money.
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The issue of spiritual power is to meet the limited mortal circumstance with unlimited thought.
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Forgiveness is like the martial arts of consciousness. In Aikido and, other martial arts, we sidestep our attackers force rather than resisting it. The energy of the attack then boomerangs back in the direction of the attacker. Our power lies in remaining nonreactive. Forgiveness works in the same way. When we attack back, and defense is a form of attack, we initiate a war that no one can win.
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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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The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it.
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As you get older, you have more and more layers of experience to forgive, more layers of heartbreak, more layers of what you might think of as failure.
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The problem with most intimate relationships is that they are not romantic. They do not involve a deeper knowing, and thus there is diminished possibility of sacred, transformative sharing.
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In all the great religious systems, there are divine beings who represent the feminine face of the divine.
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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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The universe is already programmed to give each of us a year of happiness. Our challenge lies in programming ourselves to receive it.
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I've known Dennis Kucinich for a long time, and I don't think I have illusions about him. Sometimes I find him pompous, male chauvinistic, intellectually unbending. But he is a good man, and a serious one.
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Your future isn't programmed by your past; it's programmed by your thoughts.
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Any time we read a newspaper or take any look at the world around us, we are aware of the cruelty and violence that dominates our world.
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Our divine perfection - not registered by the physical eye but only by the heart’s knowing - is who we truly are. Our mortal imperfections - registered by the physical senses - are not who we truly are. Yet we keep trying, in love, to find each other’s perfection within the world of imperfection. And it simply is not there.
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Make a room for love and it always comes. Make a nest for love and it always settles. Make a home for the beloved and the beloved with always find their way there.
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God picks you up. You don't pick yourself up. You're the one who knocked you down or even if somebody else knocked you down, your willingness to believe that what they said had value, was your conspiring with them, with their effort to knock you down - I've never been able to get myself up and I've noticed that every time I ask God to pick me up - he does.
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You've done the bourgeois thing, perhaps, but let's not call that love.
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The desire for transcendence is intimately connected with the desire for creativity. It is just as essential to who and what we are.
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Whatever we put out, it's coming back to us. The universe keeps a perfect set of books.
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It takes great courage and personal strength to hold on to our center during times of great hurt. It takes wisdom to understand that our reactiveness only fans the flames of false drama.