Marianne Williamson Quotes
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Even though modern life in many ways is nothing short of exhausting, we need to take responsibility for what is necessary to combat the stress and exhaustion of modern life.
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It is not too late. You are not too old. You are right on time-And you are better than you know.
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You get to the point where you realize that unless you, yourself, become more of the change, you can't create too much change.
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A hero is someone who stands in the community and speaks their hopes and speaks their passion. That's almost an act of heroism nowadays because higher consciousness is so trivialized.
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The undue influence of money on our politics is like a cancer underlying other cancers, the issue underlying all other issues.
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Marriage can be a magnificent lesson in becoming our best selves; that is true.
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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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First there was the word. A Course in Miracles says that prayer is the "medium of miracles." It's the realm of thought where we are aligned with the thought of God and therefore in a co- creative mode. It's where we surrender our minds to His mind and become empowered.
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We need adventure, we need meaning, we need identity. We need love. Someone who has seen us through loving eyes has awakened us from the ranks of the formerly dead. Most people bear the terminal stress of walking the world unseen, a mere number or cog in a lifeless machine.
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Behind every dark cloud there is an every-shining sun. Just wait. In time, the cloud will pass.
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We need to change society's ordering principle from economic to humanitarian values, from money as the bottom line to love as the bottom line.
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We will have gone from men telling us condescendingly to not bother our pretty little heads about important things like politics, to not bothering our pretty little heads without even being told not to! The suffragettes struggled and suffered so much on our behalf; what a travesty of everything they stood for, if we simply look away as though we can't be bothered.
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A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love-from a belief in what is not real, to faith in that which is. That shift in perception changes everything.
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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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Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world.
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Looking for Mr. Right leads to desperation, because there is no Mr. Right. There is no Mr. Right, because there is no Mr. Wrong. There is whoever is in front of us and the perfect lessons to be learned from that person.
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The entire world would feel the vibration if America returned to its heart.
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If we do not like what we see in the world, we must face what we don't like in ourselves. As we change, the world will change with us.
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No conventional therapy can release us from a deep and abiding psychic pain. Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world.
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It is your thoughts and your thoughts alone that determine what's possible for you now.
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If I had to choose between a narrow-minded woman or a man who was an enlightened thinker, I would vote for the man.
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Imagine the most outrageously positive possibility for your life, claim it, and consider it done.
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To me, when I think of New Age, I think of crystals and rainbows and platitudes.
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Angels are thoughts of God--to pray to an angel is to look to a level of pure thinking, divine thinking, and to ask that it replace our thoughts of fear. (Page 27.)