Marianne Williamson

Enlightenment is the only real antidote to the world's despair.

In every moment we make a decision -- whether conscious or unconscious. Will I choose to open my heart, send love, withhold judgment and thus free myself from fear? Or will I close my heart, project fear instead of extending love, judge others, and thus bind myself to fear? The choice is mine and mine alone.

Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don't yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving.

The Real You isn't damaged goods. The Real You is the light of the universe.

Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

Forgiveness is the ultimate preventive medicine, as well as the greatest healer.

The only feelings you really need to fear are those you ignore.

To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.

The more we allow ourselves to enjoy, the more reasons we find to be joyful.

The meaningful question is never what we did yesterday, but what we have learned from it and are doing today.

The world is healed one loving thought at a time.

Forgiveness is the choice to see people as they are now. When we're mad at people, we're angry because of something they said or did before this moment. By letting go of the past, we make room for miracles to replace our grievances.

Love brings up everything unlike itself.

You can live your life out of a circumstance or you can live your life out of a vision.

Every change is a challenge to become who we really are.

A holy relationship is where the brokenness and wounds of the world are not escaped so much as as transformed by love, not hidden from but risen above.

What if we truly believed that there is a beneficent order to things, a force that's holding things together without our conscious control? What if we could see, in our daily lives, the working of that force? What if we believed it loved us somehow and cared for us, and protected us? What if we believed we could afford to relax?

Take a good look at your life right now. If you don't like something about it, close your eyes and imagine the life you want. Now allow yourself to focus your inner eye on the person you would be if you were living this preferred life. Notice the differences in how you behave and present yourself; allow yourself to spend several seconds breathing in the new image, expanding your energy into this.

Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.

Every thought creates form on some level and all that our physical experience is - is a reflection of our thoughts.

In our ability to think about something differently lies the power to make it different.