Marianne Williamson Quotes
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Your personal power is not something that is going to reveal itself at some later date. Your power is a result of your decision to reveal it. You are powerful in whatever moment you choose to be....
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Until we get to the point where we've had enough of things that hurt and long more than anything for a peaceful love, we are bound to take painful roads. We are destined to play out our frivolous disasters until we declare ourselves finished and done with them. How much pain do we have to suffer before we are sure we want no more? As much, it seems, as we have to until we don't.
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I think of prayer as a spiritual lifeline back to where I most want to be.
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I have known healthy, wealthy people who were depressed, and people with critical illnesses who could honestly attest to joy.
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The outer kingdom is not our real home. The inner kingdom is our everything.
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I don't like the tendency on the part of so many people today to think that those who don't agree with them are bad. In fact, I find that very dangerous.
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The key to a successful career is realizing that it's not separate from the rest of your life, but is rather an extension of your most basic self. And your most basic self is love.
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It's the beginning of your day. You awake and look around you, feeling perhaps a joyful expectation, or perhaps an awful dread. No matter which, remember this: God loves you with an infinite love.
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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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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us.
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The role of a leader is not to rule over other people, but to hold a space for their own genius.
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The choice to be used as an instrument of love, right here, right now, is a choice for personal empowerment.
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You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
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We resist Joy on this planet more than we resist war.
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Nervous breakdowns can be highly underrated methods of spiritual transformation.
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I am a glorious child of God. I am joyful, serene, positive, and loving.
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The difference between magic and miracles is this. Magic is when you use your mind to tell the Universe what you want. Miracles is when you ask the Universe what it wants and how you can serve it'.
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I don't think of spiritual principle as a struggle. I think of life lived without spiritual principles as a struggle.
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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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"Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.
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The universe is wired to give us what we need, yet we have to show up for the experience of life with a positive attitude in order to experience its gifts.
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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.
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If you have a longing in your heart to hear a deeper truth, there's a mysterious way in which that truth will find you.
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When I was a child, my society lifted me up - though education primarily, as well as through other kinds of cultural stimulation. It wasn't just my parents or my religious community. The entire society lifted me up to the bottom rung of the ladder. Then they said, "Girl, it's up to you whether or not you climb." I don't have a problem with that. I think that is the best way to go about living.