Marianne Williamson Quotes
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Often we see a couple who has separated or divorced and look with sadness at the ‘failure’ of their relationship. But if both people learned what they were meant to learn, then that relationship was a success.
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In God, there is no lack and no recession.
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Surrender doesn't obstruct power; it enhances it.
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Spiritual principles do not change, but we do.
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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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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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Every moment is an invitation to live out of your weakness or to live out of your strength.
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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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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.
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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.
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I think every writer lives for the thought that there will be a moment when somebody reads something on the page and says, "Yes!"
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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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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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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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To me, hope is a moral imperative. I have hope and faith in forces unseen.
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Pleasure can be used to enslave a people just as effectively as pain.
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Once you know that every moment and every person and every situation has something to teach you, you're a student all day. You know it's the depth of your observation that is the issue - not how much the world has to show you.
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You are a child of God, small games do not work in this world. For those around us to feel peace, it is not example to make ourselves small. We were born to express the glory of God that lives in us. It is not in some of us, it is in all of us. While we allow our light to shine, we unconsciously give permission for others to do the same. When we liberate ourselves from our own fears, simply our presence may liberate others.
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When it comes to politics, we have an internal glass ceiling. We stand as good a chance as a man to win a political race, but women don't want to run at the same rate as men do. People point to the work-family balance issue, but I think it's much more than that. Many women don't have children, or have children who are no longer at home. There are some deeper psychological and emotional issues in play, like the fact that many of us feel like the embarrassment, humiliation and personal demonization in politics are simply more than our hearts can take. What stops us is fear.
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Environmentally, the planet will not sustain the kind of abuse it receives at our hands.
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The love in me salutes the love in you.
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The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins.
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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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There's no reason to think that you'll be capable of loyalty to a diet until you address your basic disloyalty toward yourself.