Marianne Williamson Quotes
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Physical circumstances have very little to do with either our capacity to love or to attract love.
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We are born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
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You playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightening about shrinking so others won't feel insecure around you. As you let your own light shine, you indirectly give others permission to do the same.
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In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.
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Prepare for the new; expect the new; embrace the new. Otherwise, you'll just repeat what's old.
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I don't think making love the new bottom line is naive; I believe that thinking we can survive the next hundred years doing anything less, is naive.
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We arrogantly assume that the nervous system doesn't really need to be coaxed into romance. That romance comes from some other place.
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Making our goal anything other than peace is emotionally self-destructive.
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I think that's what we all want on this earth - to feel that at some level we have connected with other human beings.
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I've never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching.
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Liberation also means that even though I'm a woman I have masculine parts of my temperament which I can safely explore and integrate into my experience.
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We will make love an art and we will love like artists.
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I feel that the social revolution of the sixties is like a revolving door that came our way, and then left. It's back again.
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Newtonian physics is over. You don't act on the world to change the world. You realize the world is a projection of your inner self. If you change, the world changes.
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We live in a self-organizing and self-correcting universe. For every problem, there is a potentially miraculous solution. A closed heart deflects the miracle, while an open heart brings it forth....In every moment, we make a choice between the heavenly awareness of our connection to all living things, or the hell of the delusion that we are separate and alone. The mind will manufacture according to our choice; whichever we choose, we will seem to experience.
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I don't think making love the new bottom line is naïve; I believe that thinking we can survive the next hundred years doing anything less, is naïve.
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Every time we focus on someone else's darkness, we are blocking our own view of the light. We think the person we are involved with has attacked us or has withheld love from us, when they really haven't. We focus on their guilt instead of their innocence. Frequently people are just being themselves and we start projecting our own childhood dramas onto them, pushing away the very love we want so much.
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We think we need to create ourselves, always doing a paste-up job on our personalities. That is because we're trying to be special rather than real. We're pathetically trying to conform with all the other people trying to do the same.
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The religious stories, the religious truths, the spiritual principles - obviously, they don't change. But as you get older and you experience more, you recognize the applicability, the profundity, and the fundamental truths of spiritual principles in ways that you couldn't when you simply were living a less dimensional life.
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The love is what's left at the end because it's the bedrock, fundamental reality that gets hidden all the time, but never really goes away.
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Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.
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The point of life is not who falls down. The point is who gets up and how you do it.
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Once you get to your forties or fifties in this society, very few people haven't had at least one body blow - financial, bankruptcy, divorce, relationship disaster, addiction, trouble with a child, trouble with a parent. Most people take some blow.
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Don't think small and expect to have a big life.