Marianne Williamson Quotes
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Love is the intuitive knowledge of our hearts.
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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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If you're busy regretting the past, then a new future can't come in.
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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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We were all born carrying a promise -- a promise to make the world better -- and there's a yearning to make good on that promise that none of us can suppress forever.
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Do what you love. Do what makes your heart sing. And NEVER do it for the money, Go to work to spread joy.
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The new midlife is where you realize that even your failures make you more beautiful and are turned spiritually into success if you became a better person because of them. You became a more humble person. You became a more merciful and compassionate person.
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God is an all – encompassing love that is the source of all, the reality of all, and the being through which I am.
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The number of nuclear bombs on the planet today - the sheer quantity of weapons of mass destruction in the possession of people and governments throughout the world - along with the fact that the use of brute force and militarism is an almost knee-jerk way of problem-solving on the planet today, makes the eradication of war the great moral issue of this generation.
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Next time you're about to judge someone, attempt to understand them instead.
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The speed of change today is faster than the human psyche seems able to handle, and it's increasingly difficult to reconcile the rhythms of our personal lives with the rapidity of a twenty-four-hour news cycle.
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You are a child of God.
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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.
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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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We cannot give what we do not have: We cannot bring peace to the world if we ourselves are not peaceful. We cannot bring love to the world if we ourselves are not loving. Our true gift to ourselves and others lies not in what we have but in who we are.
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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.
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The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins.
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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.
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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.
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The mystical journey drives us into ourselves, to a sacred flame at our center.
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Governments move armies, but only individuals can move hearts. And with every act of love that emanates from any of us, we are activating miracles, adding to a spiritual ocean that in time will purify our planet of all vestiges of fear. Love alone can triumph over hate, and if we give it the chance, it will.
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What I think about you, I will not be able to escape thinking about myself, and what I do to you, I will not be able to escape experiencing myself.
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...a miracles is a reasonable thing to ask for.
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Fear unchecked grows exponentially. Love poured forth has the power to remove it. Thus is the power of God in our lives.