Marianne Williamson Quotes (72 Quotes)

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.

We embrace the idea -- advanced by both ancient philosophers and modern physicists -- that the world is one. Everything connects to everything therefore, as we change, the world cannot but change with us.

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.

Prayer enables us to transform the world, because it transforms us.

Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.

We must relinquish our passive observation of the world outside we can open the door to the world we want. In understanding ourselves, we come to understand the world. In allowing ourselves to heal, we become the healers of the world. In praying for peace

If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.

Meaning doesn't lie in things. Meaning lies in us. When we attach value to things that aren't love -- the money, the car, the house, the prestige -- we are loving things that can't love us back. We are searching for meaning in the meaningless. Money, of itself, means nothing. Material things, of themselves, mean nothing. It's not that they're bad. It's that they're nothing.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

Lives with no more sense of spiritual meaning than that provided by shopping malls, ordinary television, and stagnant workplaces are barren lives indeed. Spirituality enriches culture.

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.

Dear God,Please bring your LightInto the darkened cornersOf our world today.May Divine LoveCast out all fear,And peace prevail on earth.Forgive us,Oh God,For our errors.Forgive others for theirs,As well.Please help us, God.Amen

Family... a group experience of love and support.

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.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

What if we truly believed there is a God -- 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

There is nothing Madison Avenue can give us that will make us more beautiful women. We are beautiful because God created us that way.

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.

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

Joy, has no cost.

As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.

We have made up a God in our image. Because we are angry and judgmental, we have projected those characteristics onto Him. But God remains who He is and always will be He is the energy, the thought of unconditional love. He cannot think with anger or judgment. He is mercy and compassion and total acceptance.

There's a collective knowing that a dimension of reality exists beyond the material plane, and that sense of knowing is causing a mystical resurgence on the planet today. It's not just children who are looking for a missing piece. It is a very mature outlook to question the nature of our reality.

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

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.

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

Attack thoughts towards others are attack thoughts towards ourselves.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

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

Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.

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.

And now we're coming to understand, I think, spiritually in this nation that there is as much power in the soul as there is in group force. There is as much power in listening and understanding and humility as there is, for instance, in military action.

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

The only time you ever have in which to learn anything or see anything or feel anything, or express any feeling or emotion, or respond to an event, or grow, or heal, is this moment, because this is the only moment any of us ever gets. You're only here now you're only alive in this moment.

We need less posturing and more genuine charisma. Charisma was originally a religious term, meaning of the spirit or inspired. It's about letting God's light shine through us. It's about a sparkle in people that money can't buy. It's an invisible energy with visible effects. To let go, to just love, is not to fade into the wallpaper. Quite the contrary, it's when we truly become bright. We're letting our own light shine.

Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface.

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 what has been, giving birth to the eternally new.

We cannot get to our knowledge because the world is too loud. And we tend to make it louder as we cry out in pain, pretending we are singing.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

What we are left with then is the present, the only time where miracles happen. We place the past and the future as well into the hands of God. The biblical statement that time shall be no more means that we will one day live fully in the present, without obsessing about past or future.

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.

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere a peace that is not of this world.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If were frantic,life will be frantic. If were peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal inany situation becomes inner peace. Our internal state determines our experienceof our lives our experiences do not determine our internal state.

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse -- yours or anyone else's.

Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.