Explore Quotes by Marianne Williamson

It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in the quietness of their hearts might think, 'Why not me?'

We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

I've never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching.

Our key to transforming anything lies in our ability to reframe it.

We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.

God is definitely out of the closet.

We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm.

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.

Physical circumstances have very little to do with either our capacity to love or to attract love.

In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.

If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.

Trying to suppress or eradicate symptoms on the physical level can be extremely important, but there's more to healing than that; dealing with psychological, emotional and spiritual issues involved in treating sickness is equally important.

Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.

God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.