Marianne Williamson Quotes
-
When you turn your life over to God, you don't give up the drama; you give up the cheap drama.
-
The real transformation of the world comes not from what we are doing but from the consciousness from which we are doing it.
-
The love that saves us is not a love that might come to us in the future, but rather the love we can give to whomever is around us right now.
-
Someone with whom we have a lifetime's worth of lessons to learn is someone whose presence in our lives forces us to grow...those who consciously or unconsciously challenge our fearful positions. They show us our walls. Our walls are our wounds--the places where we feel we can't love any more, can't connect any more deeply, can't forgive past a certain point. We are in each other's lives in order to help us see where we most need healing, and in order to help us heal.
-
We have a lot of choice about whether to interpret something as adversity or as opportunity. I see in myself the tendency at times to make situations worse than they have to be because of my catastrophic interpretation.
-
There is no amount of money, time or energy too great to spend on our children. They are our angels, our future. In failing them, we are failing ourselves.
-
A level of anxiety and tension and outright fear that so many people have felt, not only during the recession but during this slow economic recovery since. This made me very much want to up the conversation about how miracle-minded thinking applies to that area of life.
-
If you allow yourself to deepen with midlife, your experience of everything deepens, including your experience of God.
-
God is limitless in His love, and asks that we at least make the effort to be limitless in ours.
-
I also think the women's movement has unintentionally contributed to the dishonoring of motherhood. It happened because we made such a big deal about our right to go out into the world.
-
We need more than a new politics; what we need is a new worldview. We need a fundamentally different bottom line.
-
I believe there is an evolutionary impulse toward good that is etched on every human heart. It is placed there by the hand of God.
-
I don't think pain is a prerequisite for growth, but on the other hand, most of us choose very painful ways to learn.
-
These are very serious times, and serious people need to be doing some serious thinking.
-
As long as you identify with the universe - which is perfect and can correct material conditions to bring them back into alignment with that Divine perfection - as long as that is where your mind is aligned, it's as though there were two parallel universes. You decide with every thought you think which one you're going to inhabit. Two parallel universes of experience, as it were.
-
When we approach love and creativity with the level of conviction that the powers-that-be in the world today are approaching hatred and destruction, then and only then will we have a chance.
-
You can live constrained within the confines of a solely material perspective, or choose instead the infinite field of quantum possibility.
-
In the hands of the ego, marriage is a prison. It is exclusive. It is a place where people are constantly reminded of their failures and limited by the energies of another person. It is rife with judgment and blame.
-
We resist Joy on this planet more than we resist war.
-
Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.
-
Forgiveness is the choice to see people as they are now. When we're mad at people, we're angry because of something they said or did before this moment. By letting go of the past, we make room for miracles to replace our grievances.
-
And now we're coming to understand, I think, spiritually in this nation that there is as much power in the soul as there is in group force. There is as much power in listening and understanding and humility as there is, for instance, in military action.
-
The enlightened world will be one in which everyone is in love with everyone all the time. We will see each other as God created us: as the perfect, loving, and lovable people we really are. The purpose of romantic love is to jump-start our enlightenment.
-
When we pray for God to illumine our path, we are saying, ‘Dear God, please show me the way. What thoughts do I need to think, to be able to navigate my life at this point? What perceptions do I need; what insights will guide me? Who do I need to forgive? What parts of my personality do I need to look at; what changes do I need to make? Please come upon me and heal my life. Amen.