Marianne Williamson Quotes
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Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world.
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Nobody has to tell me about the glories of the capitalist system. But what concerns me is that there no longer seems to be a commitment to make the opportunities afforded by technology and capitalism universally accessible.
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If you went to live in the Himalayas and everyone was lovely there, I'm sure it would be fairly easy to be a spiritual master.
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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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Many times in life, we say we want change but are then terrified when the opportunity for it arrives.
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Pleasure can be used to enslave a people just as effectively as pain.
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Surrender doesn't obstruct power; it enhances it.
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The fact that people in Hollywood are open to what I teach is not because they're more desperate than anyone else, but because they're more touched by it. That's not their weakness. It's their strength!
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Love can be a huge mountain, a gentle garden, a raging storm, a cool breeze, or a perfect bath. But there is always fire somewhere nearby. There is always the red-hot stuff of the soul's initiation. If there isn't fire, then it isn't love ... If it doesn't insist that you move to your next level, if it doesn't take your heart and make it explode in a million pieces, only to fall back together again in some Moment of enlightened understanding, then you haven't really loved.
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Look at Fukushima. Should we or should we not agree with the U.S. government that none of that radioactive energy is making its way here? Hello!
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Only what I'm not giving is what is lacking in any situation.
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Christ is born into the world through each of us.
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I don't believe the United States is going through a midlife crisis. The United States is going through an adolescent crisis.
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Gender or skin color does not of itself determine the nature of a person's thinking.
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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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The power of nonviolence is not circumstance-specific. It is as applicable to the problems that confront us now, as to problems that confronted generations in the past. It is not a medicine or a solution so much as a healing process. It is the active spiritual immune system of humanity.
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I do think that every generation has its unique story.
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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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The world as it is perceived by most people, is a world of finite resources.
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Once you see that everything in life is a gift, you see that food is also a gift. If you are about to eat chemically processed, unhealthy food, you realize that to do so is, on a certain level, an act of violence against yourself.
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Physically, we get older and then we die. Yet spiritually, whether we go backward or forward is a matter not of the body but of consciousness. When we think about age differently, then our experience of it changes. We can be physically older but emotionally and psychologically younger. Some of us were in a state of decay in our 20s and are in a state of re-birth in our 60s or 70s. King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are.
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Much like a GPS, love re-calibrates itself if you've made a wrong turn.
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The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins.
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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.