Marianne Williamson Quotes
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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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Making our goal anything other than peace is emotionally self-destructive.
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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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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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The universe takes us as seriously as we take it.
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We will make love an art and we will love like artists.
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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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Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct.
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Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do not know ourselves.
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Miracles arise from conviction. Be convicted about these things: Miracles can happen. Miracles do happen. Love makes them happen.
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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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'Accepting the Christ' is merely a shift in self-perception.
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Once you reach a certain age, you're either slowly dying or slowly being reborn. I want to choose the latter.
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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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The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.
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Conscious awareness is the source of our healing...Only when you say the truth can the truth set you free. This is not a negative process, but at times it is a difficult process.
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If you allow spirit to have dominion in your heart you will have dominion in your life. That changes thinking. That IS the miracle. That I'm not just a child of the body, I'm a child of the universe and in the universe I am programmed for greatness, and the fact that I don't have money in my bank account now doesn't mean I'm any less programmed for greatness. I was programmed for greatness just like the acorn is programmed to be an oak tree.
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People with AIDS, cancer and other illnesses need free nonmedical support services.
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I can't say that there are "things" that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive. Those are thoughts that take me beyond myself; that remind me that there's a bigger game going on on this planet than simply my own existence; that love works miracles, and how much we need them at certain moment.
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As we let our light shine, we consciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.
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If a train doesn’t stop at your station, it’s simply because it’s not your train. Don’t try to flag down the conductor and convince them to stop there, even if their own map says that they should just keep going. You may not realize it, but there’s another train trying to come toward you, unable to get into your station because a train that doesn’t even belong there is being delayed there by your intensity.
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Capitalism has been really good to me. I'm very fortunate: I have written books and my books have sold.
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I don't know anybody who doesn't have a lost decade.
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Charisma is a sparkle in people that money can't buy. It's an invisible energy with visible effects.