Marianne Williamson Quotes
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The world as it is perceived by most people, is a world of finite resources.
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...available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy.
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Spiritual principles do not change, but we do.
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Every moment is an invitation to live out of your weakness or to live out of your strength.
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The mystical journey drives us into ourselves, to a sacred flame at our center.
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Environmentally, the planet will not sustain the kind of abuse it receives at our hands.
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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.
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We are material beings for but a moment in time, but we are spiritual beings forever.
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Achievement doesn't come from what we do, but from who we are. Our worldly power results from our personal power. Our career is an extension of our personality.
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There is an emergent enlightenment appearing today, unique to no particular culture or ethnicity. Anyone who chooses to be, is its conduit.
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Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.
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There is simply too much unnecessary suffering in our world. And we should see that as a national security risk, by the way. Given enough time, desperate people will tend to do desperate things. At a certain point you won't be able to build enough prisons or enough bombs to eradicate the effects of all that violence inside so many hearts.
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The worlds of Truth (love) and illusion (fear) are like parallel universes; with every thought we make a choice which one to inhabit.
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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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Christ is born into the world through each of us.
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I do believe 50 is the new 40 and 60 is the new 50. Hell, maybe 60 can be the new 40, I don't know. I believe that when we give ourselves permission, we can live with an excitement and heat and passion that most women in previous generations were unable to attain.
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We live in a world of easy friendships - people here for you when it's easy, 'so-sorry-but-I-have-an-errand-to-do-now' when it's not.
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To bear witness to all the unnecessary suffering on the planet and make ourselves available to service - whatever that means for each of us. We go deep in our personal relationships in America, but we need to go deep in our public relationships as well.
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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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War is just an effect, not a cause.
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Love and fear represent two different lenses through which to view the world. Which I choose to use will determine what I think I see.
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Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
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We experience who we really are, and what it is we are meant to do, in any moment when we pour our love into the universe.
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Women will not be free until we can speak our minds and our hearts without having to worry that men will crucify us, women will crucify us, the press will crucify us, or our children will be ashamed... Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we feel we have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.