Explore Quotes by Marianne Williamson

It is not your job to seek for love. It IS your job to seek within yourself all the barriers against its coming.

Depression might have chosen you, but you don't have to choose it back. Sometimes happiness comes with bootstraps, but so what? Pull 'em up. Choose joy.

In his farewell address, George Washington warned the people about political parties. Now we see how both Democrats and Republicans have conspired to reduce democratic participation. If this is the best the Democrats and Republicans have to offer, it's time to look elsewhere.Politics should be the prism for our most noble intentions.

We are so trained in the thought system of fear and attack that we get to the point where natural thinking - love - feels unnatural and unnatural thinking - fear - feels natural. It takes real discipline and training to unlearn the thought system of fear.

But beauty itself is not given to us by anyone; it is a power we have within us from the gate, a radiance inside us.

The purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us.

Every time we open our hearts, we create the space for a global alternative.

Attack thoughts towards others are attack thoughts towards ourselves.

You know what we need to heal are the thought forms and the feelings that cause us to create war and mass destruction on this kind of a level, because ultimately if we are to survive as a species, we have to become a human race for whom the thought of war is unthinkable.

We have to wage peace. That's the law of the spirit is the waging of peace, because if we simply seek to manage the effects of hatred, which does need to be done, of course. But if all we do is manage the effects of hatred, then hatred will simply stalk us the next decade or the next generation. We need to dismantle hatred itself.

Unless we can be like children, we can't be happy.

Our religious institutions have far too often become handmaidens of the status quo, while the genuine religious experience is anything but that. True religion is by nature disruptive of_x000D_ what has been, giving birth to the eternally new.

Let go of your story so the Universe can write a new one for you.

For many people, God is a frightening idea. Asking God for help doesn't seem very comforting if we think of Him as something outside ourselves, or capricious, or judgmental. But God is love and He dwells within us. We are created in His image, or mind, which means that we are extensions of His love, or Sons and Daughters of God.

Life as we knew it is passing away, and something new is emerging to take its place, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life.

There is no peace without forgiveness.

Today is a day for sober and mature reflection, not glee. Mindless celebration is both spiritually inappropriate and politically naive.

We are all part of a vast sea of love. One indivisible mind.

Faith doesn't mean you don't have to do the work; it just means you're absolutely certain the work will pay off.

Only what I'm not giving is what is lacking in any situation

Midlife is not the time to disenchant ourselves. It's a time to turn on all our magic in full force.