100+ Marianne Williamson Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

No one is any more or any less important than you are.

Topics: Positivity, Important, Self-importance

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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.

Quotation Marianne Williamson We can always choose to perceive things differently You can Quotes

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

Topics: Love, Happiness, Forgiveness, Happy Children, Life Altering

I don't believe there are any powers, which in the larger sense, are unnatural or even supernatural. I think we just do not yet scientifically understand all of the powers inherent in the human consciousness, and the more attuned we are to the realm of spirit, the more our conscious mind is available to subconscious, spiritual prompting.

Topics: Spiritual, Believe, Thinking, Unnatural, Human Consciousness

We cannot give what we do not have: We cannot bring peace to the world if we ourselves are not peaceful. We cannot bring love to the world if we ourselves are not loving. Our true gift to ourselves and others lies not in what we have but in who we are.

Topics: Love, Lying, Giving, True Gifts, Being A Good Person

People want the nation to transform in the same way they want their own lives to transform. If you're interested in transforming your life, you can't just transform some things. You can't try to fix some things, but sweep other things under the rug because it's too hard to face them. And the same is true for a nation.

Topics: People, Trying, Want

When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.

Topics: Energy, Glory, Possibility, Magnetic

I think the greatest gift we can give our children is the experience of deep quiet. If we don't help our children cultivate contemplation, reflection, prayer, meditation, or whatever other practice of mindfulness, then they're likely to be completely spun out of their center by the time they're in grade school.

Topics: Children, Prayer, School, Devotion To God, Grades In School

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.

Topics: Love, Forgiveness, Peace, Focus In Life, Focus On One Thing

When we're in our right minds, we are hopeful. Because the arc of the moral universe does bend toward justice, nature does bend toward healing, and the heart does bend toward love.

Topics: Heart, Healing, Justice

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

Topics: Life, Motivational, Happiness, Joy Of Learning, Lecturer

The biggest problem is our lack of "response-ability." That's what happens when money rather than love is the bottom line. People act like idiots.

Topics: Love Is, People, Lines

What's difficult in life is to stay centered when somebody does or says something that tempts us to close our hearts because their heart was closed. That is hard. But that is also how we grow. We go through those circumstances in order to evolve into people who can hold to our loving center no matter what the world throws us.

Topics: Heart, Order, People

We need more than new policies. We need a new worldview, and a new bottom line. We need to replace economic values as our ordering principle, with humanitarian values as our ordering principle.

Topics: Lines, Principles, Needs, Economic Value

Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.

Topics: Healing, Unique, Play, Heal The World

There is simply too much unnecessary suffering in our world. And we should see that as a national security risk, by the way. Given enough time, desperate people will tend to do desperate things. At a certain point you won't be able to build enough prisons or enough bombs to eradicate the effects of all that violence inside so many hearts.

Topics: Heart, Our World, People, Unnecessary Suffering

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.

Topics: Letting Go, Past, People, Forget The Past, They Said

I don't think pain is a prerequisite for growth, but on the other hand, most of us choose very painful ways to learn.

Topics: Pain, Thinking, Hands

The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts.

Topics: Love, Forgiveness, Peace, Thoughts On Life, Life Altering

It is absolutely a relationship with food that is a displaced relationship with God. And that displaced relationship with God takes two forms: our availability to other people and our availability to our own thoughts and feelings.

Topics: Two, Availability, People

Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Topics: Life, Sweet, Lying, Love Acceptance, Love And Healing

Forgiveness is key to enchanted love because it is key to living right, period. It is the capacity to see beyond the veil of personality and worldly illusions. No one is perfect or attractive every day. Forgiveness means we are capable of relating to someone on a deeper level than the ordinary self. And that we are committed to doing so no matter what the appearances are, no matter what the situation is.

Topics: Mean, Love Is, Self, Living Right

Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close.

Topics: Expectations, Age, World

Think of the mystical three days between the crucifixion and the resurrection as the time it takes for a situation to change once spirit has infused our consciousness. As we come to look at an experience differently, in time in begins to transform.

Topics: Thinking, Three, Looks

â€Ž"Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.

Topics: Limits, Belief

Something very beautiful happens to people when their world's fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor.

Topics: Beautiful, Humility, People

It takes mystical insight to see the beauty and innocence in each other, even when that is not what we are showing to the world. That is why God is needed in intimate relationships, to move us beyond the perceptions that can so often poison love.

Topics: Moving, Perception, Poison

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

Topics: Love, Forgiveness, Spiritual, Spiritual Practice, Life Altering

Only God's Thoughts - or love - is actually real. So when we separate ourselves from that love, we're actually not thinking at all: we're hallucinating.

Topics: Real, Thinking, Love Is

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Heart, Volunteerism, Heal The World

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.

Topics: Reality, Love Is, Fundamentals

Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work.

Topics: Heart, Darkness, Trying, Outer Worlds

Even a happy life has a sad day. We fail to provide a context which says it's okay to cry, it's okay to be sad. So I think making the space for suffering is so important and making space for this expression of feelings in community.

Topics: Happy Life, Thinking, Expression, Expression Of Feeling, Sad Day

Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. the world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.

Topics: World, Surrender, Realms, Another World

Every time we focus on someone else's darkness, we are blocking our own view of the light. We think the person we are involved with has attacked us or has withheld love from us, when they really haven't. We focus on their guilt instead of their innocence. Frequently people are just being themselves and we start projecting our own childhood dramas onto them, pushing away the very love we want so much.

Topics: Block, Drama, Thinking, Pushing Away

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.

Topics: Love, Marriage, Positivity, Empowering Women, Empowering Love

In pursuing personal growth, there are issues where we can advance just so far by ourselves. At some point, our continued progress and improvement can only come about through relationships with others. Romantic love is an intense and intimate exposure to another person; if we can be who we want to be, even in that context, then our spiritual growth is exponentially expanded.

Topics: Spiritual, Love Is, Romantic Love

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth.

Topics: Spiritual, Courage, Fear, Spiritual Gratitude, Spiritual Path

I am very much into politics, but what interests me is sacred principles applied to that area. I am interested in the intersection of the Spiritual and the political - how spiritual principles apply to the social and political issues of our day. For me, the spiritual realm, is a more powerful place to speak from on those issues.

Topics: Spiritual, Powerful, Issues, Political Issues

Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.

Topics: Letting Go, Spiritual, Giving Up, Spiritual Growth

No matter what I write or speak about, it always has some connection to how our spiritual understanding impacts the world we live in. Whether I'm writing or teaching about nutrition, pilates, green living or meditation, all topics simmer down to self thought and intention.

Topics: Spiritual, Teaching, Writing

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...

Topics: Eye, Breathing, Differences, Closing Your Eyes

My hope is that I'm getting better and wiser. With every book, I have more of myself to pour onto the page.

Topics: Book, Get Better, Pages

Sometimes when we're feeling sad, it's important just to feel the sadness. Like a snake shedding its skin, old feelings of remorse and regret and hurt and anger often have to come up in order to be released. On the other side we're a better person, capable of a happier life...who we are when we're no longer burdened by the buried feelings that weighed us down, or the self - defeating patterns that the pain produced.

Topics: Hurt, Pain, Regret, Feeling Down, Happier Life

Choosing joy involves spiritual surrender, and sometimes we would rather hold on to the pain than surrender our egos.

Topics: Spiritual, Pain, Joy

Just like a sunbeam can't separate itself from the sun, and a wave can't separate itself from the ocean, we can't separate ourselves from one another. We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind.

Topics: Spiritual, Ocean, Sea, Indivisible, Sunbeams

Great spiritual teachings do not change, but we do. As we grow older and wiser, we can receive the teachings at deeper levels.

source: - Source: www.lotusguide.com

Topics: Spiritual, Teaching, Levels, Spiritual Teaching, Great Spiritual

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.

Topics: Courage, Pain, Self, Unconsciousness

I try to be self-disciplined with my thoughts. It's our thoughts that matter most, and all the rest falls into line behind that: if I remember who I really am and why I'm on the earth, then I more naturally want to treat my body like a temple and so forth.

Topics: Fall, Self, Trying

As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.

Topics: Love, Life, Motivational

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.

source: - FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jul 16, 2014

Topics: Heart, Judging, Choices, Withholding, Extending

The fate of the world rests on this one thing: our capacity to actualize our spiritual potential, and quickly.

Topics: Spiritual, Fate, World

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

Topics: Love, Inspirational, Fear, Empowering Women, Learn To Love Yourself

We need to take responsibility for the effect of our environment on our nervous systems, and particularly the nervous systems of our children. No wonder so many of them are diagnosed with all the stuff they're diagnosed with today. Modern technology is a blessing to be sure, but it's also a curse if we allow it to pull us out of our spiritual center. A 24 hour electronic onslaught comes at the expense of our deep humanity and our deepest relationships.

Topics: Spiritual, Children, Responsibility, Modern Technology

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

Topics: God, Prayer, Meditation, Inspirational Meditation

If you have a longing in your heart to hear a deeper truth, there's a mysterious way in which that truth will find you.

Topics: Heart, Way, Mysterious, Mysterious Ways

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

Topics: Love, Forgiveness, Peace, Be Considerate, Life Altering

A primary goal of the spiritual life is to learn to quiet the mind through prayer and meditation, through spiritual practice, so that we can hear what in both Judaism and Christianity, is called the small, still voice within.

Topics: Spiritual, Prayer, Practice

Ego says, "Once everything falls into place, I'll feel peace". Spirit says, "Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place".

source: - Twitter post from Aug 10, 2013

Topics: Yoga, Fall, Ego, Fall Into Place, Everything Falls Into Place

If you're getting your guidance about who you are and what to do with your life only from the external world, then by definition you'll be led away from your authentic truth. Your authentic truth isn't in the material world. It's counterintuitive, but you have more power in the world when you know you're not of it.

Topics: World, Definitions, Guidance

We were all born carrying a promise -- a promise to make the world better -- and there's a yearning to make good on that promise that none of us can suppress forever.

Topics: Forever, Promise, World, Suppression

I can't say that there are "things" that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive.

Topics: Alive

Karma means that all actions have consequences. Grace means that in a moment of atonement -taking responsibility, making amends, asking for forgiveness - all karma is burned.

Topics: Karma, Mean, Responsibility, Making Amends, Amends

I write and speak about personal and spiritual growth. One week I write about illness and another week I speak about relationships and another week I write about work and money and another week I speak to people with obesity issues. I write about whatever wounds seem to cry out for more enlightened solutions, and the love that heals them all.

Topics: Spiritual, Writing, Issues, Work And Money

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.

Topics: Spiritual, Healing, Emotional

When it comes to politics, we have an internal glass ceiling. We stand as good a chance as a man to win a political race, but women don't want to run at the same rate as men do. People point to the work-family balance issue, but I think it's much more than that. Many women don't have children, or have children who are no longer at home. There are some deeper psychological and emotional issues in play, like the fact that many of us feel like the embarrassment, humiliation and personal demonization in politics are simply more than our hearts can take. What stops us is fear.

Topics: Running, Children, Heart, Work Family, Glass Ceiling

The more room you give yourself to express your true thoughts and feelings, the more room there is for your wisdom to emerge.

Topics: Giving, Feelings, Rooms

A lot of us simply disengaged from politics altogether, but then we woke up and went wow, wait a minute. Why does that insane conversation get to dominate? Who made those people the creators of the conversation? And how can we start a new one?

Topics: People, Waiting, Insane

When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. As you see him, you will see yourself. As you treat him, you will treat yourself. As you think of him, you will think of yourself. Never forget this, for in him you will find yourself or lose yourself.

Topics: Love You, Thinking, Self Love

Sometimes when everything has totally apart, the meaningless preoccupations that so often dominate our lives simply fall away. And what is left is who we really are, and who we really are is compassionate and intelligent and wise.

Topics: Wise, Fall, Intelligent

The choice to be used as an instrument of love, right here, right now, is a choice for personal empowerment.

Topics: Choices, Empowerment, Used, Choose Wisely, Lecturer

Sometimes, when I'm sitting with people who have been stripped of everything and who are naked and authentic and finding themselves for the first time, I am reminded of how good people really are.

Topics: People, Naked, Sitting

When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom.

Topics: Joy, Joy To The World

I'm haunted sometimes by the thought, what if we lived from that place all the time? What if we went there without tragedy striking first? The very thought of who we would be together, and the kinds of collectives decisions we would make. The kind of world we'd create makes me want to cry sometimes.

Topics: Decision, What If, Together

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

Topics: Love, Forgiveness, Peace, Life Altering

You have tremendous gifts to give; God sent them with you when you came to this earth. And while you might forget them, or doubt they exist, God does not forget and He will show them to you. As soon as your gifts are dedicated to His work, they will blossom. Chains that might have held you back for years will dissolve. And you will feel free. You will learn that your spirit is bigger than your circumstances, as soon as you put your spirit first.

Topics: Years, Giving, Doubt

17,000 children starve on this planet every single day. That fact alone should blow any conscious person out of their chair. You know, my mother used to say that a woman's most important job is taking care of her children and her home. I laughed at that when I was younger, but I don't laugh at it anymore. I just realize that every child on the planet is one of our children, and the earth itself is our home.

Topics: Mother, Jobs, Children, Important Jobs

You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.

Topics: Believe, Responsibility, Exercise, Responsible Person

When women think of power, we shouldn't think of it only for ourselves. We should be thinking about what we're going to do with power, once we have it. Women should be standing up powerfully and passionately for the care and protection of children, as well as the care and protection of the Earth itself. Women's voices should be front and center in protecting both our young and our habitat. That's the way it is in any species that survives.

Topics: Children, Thinking, Voice

Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.

Topics: World, Spirit, Dear God, Dear Lord

People don't usually come see me because things are going well.

Topics: People, Wells

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. ("A Return to Love")

Topics: Lying, Mean, Addiction

Society never progresses because the majority one day wakes up and says, "Let's do things differently." The majority didn't wake up and say, "Oh, let's just free the slaves." Society always progressed because a relatively small group of people usually considered outrageous radicals by the status quo of their time had a better idea and articulated another way. That's simply how evolution works; it's the mutation. The member of the species who does things differently - that points the way to the future because they're better adapted for survival.

Topics: Ideas, People, Survival, Outrageous

Once the light of our awareness is cast on any darkness, then it cannot hide and it cannot remain. Such is the law of consciousness.

Topics: Light, Law, Darkness

There is a perverse comfort zone to living a small life. For women, that zone has to do with the fact that we're less likely to be challenged, we're less likely to be criticized, we're less likely to be called angry or strident, if we simply go along and acquiesce to the prevailing patterns of thought and behavior.

Topics: Patterns, Facts, Comfort, Small Life

Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face.

Topics: Lying, Sorrow, Might

To bear witness to all the unnecessary suffering on the planet and make ourselves available to service - whatever that means for each of us. We go deep in our personal relationships in America, but we need to go deep in our public relationships as well.

Topics: Mean, America, Suffering, Unnecessary Suffering

People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.

Topics: Attitude, Heart, People, Connectedness

We already have the material means to eradicate deep poverty and thereby eradicate hunger. We have the material means to begin the tremendous clean up of the environmental messes we've created. We have, I believe, the psychological, emotional and spiritual means to create a world without war. We have the material means to create a world in which unnecessary human suffering has been drastically diminished. My vision for the future is that we do those things. And I think we will.

Topics: Spiritual, War, Believe

A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love.

Topics: Miracle, Perception

The real axis of social change is not horizontal, but vertical. We don't need a whole bunch of people gathering to think shallow thoughts together. What we need is for as many people as are ready to gather and think deep thoughts together.

Topics: Real, Thinking, Axes

Within the miraculous brew of universal creativity , all you desire already exists. Spend five minutes each morning with your eyes closed, living in that dimension. Allow images to unfold without censor. Feel yourself living the most magnificent life -- a life of joy, creativity and love -- as you grow inwardly into the person you need to be in order to manifest it effortlessly.

Topics: Morning, Creativity, Eye, Closed Eyes

Our problem isn't that the universe isn't on our side; the problem is that too many of us numb these days, not awake to the game, or to the power of the universe that flows through our psychic veins. Some of us need to stop whining. It's not like we're the first generation who faced serious challenges. But others rose to the occasion, and we need to too.

Topics: Psychics, Games, Rose, Stop Whining

The universe is already programmed to give each of us a year of happiness. Our challenge lies in programming ourselves to receive it.

Topics: Lying, Years, Giving

I think future generations will see the invention of the Internet as having been as important as the invention of the printing press. It's the democratizing tool of all tools. As long as no one can control the flow of information, then freedom always has a chance.

Topics: Thinking, Long, Important, Printing Press

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

Topics: Powerful, Deepest Fear, Our Deepest Fear, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

Once the Western mind was disconnected from its sense of divine responsibility and genuine reverence towards nature, all hell broke loose. And that's where we are.

Topics: Responsibility, Mind, Hell

If a train doesn't stop at your station, then it's not your train.

Topics: Life, Train

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

Topics: Forgiveness, Forgiving, Firsts, Forgive Yourself, Willingness To Sacrifice

A queen is wise. She has earned her serenity, not having had it bestowed on her but having passer her tests. She has suffered and grown more beautiful because of it. She has proved she can hold her kingdom together. She has become its vision. She cares deeply about something bigger than herself. She rules with authentic power.

Topics: Beautiful, Wise, Queens

May my heart be your shelter, and my arms be your home.

source: - Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.267, Random House

Topics: Wedding, Home, Heart, Wedding Love, Love And Marriage

You don't have to pray to attract great things, because great things are attracted to you already. Pray that you won't throw them away once they get here.

Topics: Praying, Great Things

We have great power to affect the attitudes and behavior of the people around us, at work and at home. We have the power to set a tone of honor, to create an energy around ourselves that says, 'I respect myself. I respect you. Let's respect each other.'

Topics: Attitude, Home, People, I Respect Myself, I Respect You

Your life shows up for you when you show up for your life.

Topics: Shows

The greatest force of personal liberation is the decision to widen our circle of compassion, moving from focus on self to focus on service.

Topics: Moving, Compassion, Circles

Imagine the week ahead unfolding in an ever-increasing flow of miracles. Allow the image to sink into your heart. Receive it with a big yes!

Topics: Positive Thinking, Heart, Miracle

Bless more; blame less.

Topics: Blessing, Blame, Bless

The love is real in any situation; everything else is just an illusion.

Topics: Honesty, Real, Love Is

The key to happiness is the decision to be happy

Topics: Keys, Decision, Key To Happiness

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.

Topics: Spiritual, Grieving, Order, Spiritual Progress

No matter what is happening in our lives, we choose how we wish to think about it. And the greatest gift we give ourselves is often our willingness to change our minds. Despite what might seem to be the saddest and most intractable situation, we have the power to believe that something else is possible, that things can change, that a miracle can happen.

Topics: Believe, Thinking, Giving, Miracles Can Happen, Willingness To Change

I am a glorious child of God. I am joyful, serene, positive, and loving.

Topics: Love, Children, Joy, Child Of God

Forgiveness does not mean that we suppress anger; forgiveness means that we have asked for a miracle: the ability to see through mistakes that someone has made to the truth that lies in all of our hearts. 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. Attack thoughts towards others are attack thoughts towards ourselves. The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

Topics: Forgiveness, Mistake, Lying, Inflicting Pain, Suppressing

The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love.

Topics: Spiritual, Women, Acceptance

Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.

Topics: Children, Ideas, Violence, Birth Of A Child

When love isn't in our lives, it's on the way. If you know that a special guest is coming at five o'clock, do you spend the day messing up the home? Of course not. You prepare. And that is what we should do for love.

Topics: Love, Marriage, Home, Soulmate Love, Messing Up

We were born with a natural tendency to focus on love. Our imaginations were creative and flourishing, and we knew how to use them. We were connected to a richer world, a world full of enchantment and a sense of the miraculous. What happened?

Topics: Creativity, Imagination, Creative

Everything we do is either an act of love or a cry for help.

Topics: Love, Marriage, Helping

There is within each of us the possibility of magnificence. Every moment is an opportunity to make it manifest. Let the spirit awaken you to a miraculous life.

Topics: Opportunity, Magnificence, Spirit

The more you drop into your heart, the more God can drop into your mind.

Topics: Heart, Mind

A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.

Topics: Inspirational, Meaningful, Believe, Lecturer, Popularity Contest

Speak from your mind and people will hear you with their mind. Speak from your heart and people will hear you with their heart.

Topics: Inspirational, Heart, People

When we stop trying to control events, they fall into a natural order, an order that works. We're at rest while a power much greater than our own takes over, and it does a much better job than we could have done. We learn to trust that the power that holds galaxies together can handle the circumstances of our relatively little lives.

Topics: Jobs, Fall, Order, Togetherness, Things Will Work Out

Taking the time to meditate is as important as taking the time to breathe. One pumps oxygen into the body, the other pumps peace into the mind.

Topics: Inspirational, Oxygen, Mind, Spiritual Wisdom, Spiritual Transformation

I've come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way. The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.

Topics: Challenges, Soul, Growth, Challenges We Face

If you're busy regretting the past, then a new future can't come in.

Topics: Regret, Past, Busy, New Future

You don't need a new life, just a new lens through which to view the one you have.

source: - FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Feb 28, 2013

Topics: Inspirational, Views, Needs

Be the most wonderful expression of you that you're capable of.

Topics: Expression, Wonderful, Capable

To the extent we are perceiving anyone's guilt -choosing to focus on the errors of their personality rather than the eternal innocence of their spirit - we're closing our hearts, deflecting a miracle and causing our own inevitable suffering.

Topics: Inspirational, Heart, Errors, Deflecting

World conditions challenge us to look beyond the status quo for responses to the pain of our times. We look to powers within as well as powers without. A new, spiritually based social activism is beginning to assert itself. It stems not from hating what is wrong and trying to fight it, but from loving what could be and making the commitment to bring it forth.

Topics: Pain, Hate, Commitment, Social Activism

Inner peace doesn't come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.

Topics: Inner Peace, Who We Are, Want, Spiritual Wisdom, Just Be Yourself

Women will not be free until we can speak our minds and our hearts without having to worry that men will crucify us, women will crucify us, the press will crucify us, or our children will be ashamed... Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we feel we have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.

Topics: Children, Heart, Men

The world is terrified of joyful women. Make a stand. Be one anyway.

Topics: Serious, World, Joyful

The universe is wired with the electricity of God, & each of us is a lamp. It doesn't matter the size or shape of the lamp; it only matters that the lamp is plugged in. With every prayer, every thought of forgiveness, every meditation, every act of love, we plug in. The more of us who plug in, to more the darkness of the world will be cast from our midst. Today, let's all increase love's wattage!

Topics: Happiness, Prayer, Meditation, Lecturer, Plugs

Whether we love, or close our hearts to love, is a mental choice we make, every moment of every day.

Topics: Love, Heart, Choices, Lecturer

Anytime you try to be a loving person, you're doing your part to save the world.

Topics: Love, Forgiveness, Peace, Loving Person

A relationship is more of an assignment than a choice. We can walk away from the assignment, but we cannot walk away from the lessons it presents. We stay with a relationship until a lesson is learned, or we simply learn it another way.

Topics: Choices, Lessons, Way

I know. And that's what took me so long

Topics: Long

Every time we're about to criticize someone for what we think they did wrong, let's first remember to thank them for the things they did right. And to mean it; to sincerely affirm them. Then, if there's still a problem that needs to be shared, it will come from a completely different energy -- and actually be heard!

Topics: Mean, Thinking, Different, Wrongdoing, Emotional Energy

Relationships are the Holy Spirit's laboratories in which He brings together people who have the maximal opportunity for mutual growth.

Topics: Opportunity, People, Growth

No company or organization filled with unhappy people will ultimately rise to its highest potential.

Topics: Organization, People, Unhappy

Today, the reason we haven't found our grail, the key to who we are as women, is because we look for it in worlds of false power, the very worlds that took it away from us in the first place. Neither men nor work can restore our lost scepter. Nothing in this world can take us home. Only the radar in our hearts can do that, and when it does, ... 'We will light up like lamps, and the world will never be the same again.'

Topics: Heart, Home, Men, Radar

The cosmic spotlight isn't pointed at you; it radiates from within you.

Topics: Spotlight, Cosmic

Again--nothing you do or think or wish or make is necessary to establish your worth.

Topics: Thinking, Wish

Love in your mind produces love in your life. This is the meaning of Heaven. Fear in your mind produces fear in your life. This is the meaning of hell.

Topics: Heaven, Mind, Hell

The world in which we live today-reflecting in so many way the opposite of our sweetness and love-reminds us how desperately important it is to break the spell that's been cast on the human race and retrieve our shining self.

Topics: Life, Race, Self

In every heart there is an inner room, where we can hold our greatest treasures and our deepest pain.

Topics: Pain, Heart, Pet, Greatest Treasure

Every bird that sings, sings for you. Every breeze that blows, blows for you. Every sunray shines for you. If you only knew how loved you are....

source: - FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jun 10, 2011

Topics: Blow, Shining, Bird, If Only You Knew

The enlightened world will be one in which everyone is in love with everyone all the time. We will see each other as God created us: as the perfect, loving, and lovable people we really are. The purpose of romantic love is to jump-start our enlightenment.

Topics: Romantic Love, Love Is, Perfect

Hope is born of participation in hopeful solutions.

Topics: Hopeful, Born, Participation, Hope And Faith, Problems And Solutions

We're all assigned a piece of the garden, a corner of the universe that is ours to transform. Our corner of the universe is our own life - our relationships, our homes, our work, our current circumstances -. exactly as they are. Every situation we find ourselves in is an opportunity, perfectly planned by the Holy Spirit, to teach love instead of fear.

Topics: Home, Opportunity, Garden

The week ahead is already programmed for fabulousness. Pray that your thinking be aligned with the force that makes it so.

Topics: Inspirational, Thinking, Praying, Bright Future

The universe is intentional. It is always moving in the direction of greater love, regardless whether or not we consciously align with that love.

Topics: Inspirational, Moving, Universe, Always Moving, Greater Love

When we do align with it, we thrive. And when we do not, we suffer. This is not "punishment." It is merely the Law of Cause and Effect. With each thought we think, we either align with universal love, or we disconnect ourselves from it. Whichever is our choice determines whether we then feel connected to, or disconnected, from our own true Selves.

Topics: Inspirational, Thinking, Self, Choose Wisely, Universal Love

There is an emergent enlightenment appearing today, unique to no particular culture or ethnicity. Anyone who chooses to be, is its conduit.

Topics: Inspirational, Unique, Ethnicity

There cannot be too many glorious women.

Topics: Women, Men Women, Glorious

The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.

Topics: Soul, Challenges, Growth

On any given day, in any given moment, something could happen that opens up for you an entirely new path. Be still, be alert, be ready.

Topics: Path, Moments, Given, Readiness, Newness Of Life

We must keep in mind that where the road is crooked, God makes it straight, and where our hearts are wounded, God makes us whole. As we open our hearts in purity and simplicity, admitting to God that we are completely powerless in the area of our problem, His illumination redeems us.

Topics: Heart, Illumination, Simplicity

We lack faith in *what* exists within us because we lack faith in *Who* exists within us.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

source: - A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Encouraging, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

Topics: Inspiring, Confidence, Children, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

...available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy.

Topics: Real, People, Intimacy

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

Topics: Inspirational, Forgiveness, Past, Forgiveness Love, Love And Forgiveness

We aren't bodies at all; who we are is the love inside us, and it is that love alone that determines our value. When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness.

Topics: Light, Darkness, Mind, Alone In Love

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, we become bringers of peace. Thus we actualize the power within us to remedy the psychic wounds of humanity.

Topics: Doors, Psychics, Humanity

There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.

Topics: Children, Parenting, Effort

There is a collective force rising up on the earth today, an energy of the reborn feminine... This is a time of monumental shift, from the male dominance of human consciousness back to a balanced relationship between masculine and feminine.

Topics: Rising Up, Males, Earth, Male Dominance, Balanced Relationship

Rather than accepting that we are the loving beings that He created, we have arrogantly thought that we could create ourselves, and then create God. Because we are angry and judgmental, we have projected those characteristics onto Him. We have made up a God in our image. But God remains who He is and always has been: the energy, the thought of unconditional love.

Topics: Unconditional Love, Energy, Judgmental

It is our own thoughts that hold the key to miraculous transformation.

Topics: Keys, Transformation, Miraculous

To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.

Topics: Queens, Princess, Heart

Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth.

Topics: Reality, Love Is, Earth

Whatever situation you're in: Send love, place it in God's hands, open your heart to everyone involved - and it will turn out miraculously.

Topics: Freedom, Heart, Hands

Life is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like the end of a chapter, on some level setting up the beginning of another.

Topics: Book, Levels, Life Is

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?'

Topics: Running, Cheerleading, Heart, Running For Office

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.

Topics: Running, Children, Civilization, Human Civilization

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

Topics: Spiritual, Motivation, Women, Finish Strong

Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, that's where humanity is now: about to discover we're not as smart as we thought we were, will be forced by life to surrender our attacks and defenses which avail us of nothing, and finally break through into the collective beauty of who we really are.

Topics: Beautiful, Smart, Humility

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.

Topics: Power, World, Illusion

Behind every fear, there is a miracle waiting.

Topics: Miracle, Waiting, Behinds

A change of heart leads to change in behavior, and a change in behavior leads to changing the world.

Topics: Heart, World, Behavior

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

Topics: Love, Inspirational, Forgiveness

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.

Topics: Love, Marriage, Peace, Miracle Of Life, Expressions Of Love

God is definitely out of the closet.

Topics: Closets

The new midlife is where you realize that even your failures make you more beautiful and are turned spiritually into success if you became a better person because of them. You became a more humble person. You became a more merciful and compassionate person.

Topics: Beautiful, Humble, Midlife, Humble Person

I'm better than I used to be. Better than I was yesterday. But hopefully not as good as I'll be tomorrow.

Topics: Yesterday, Tomorrow, Used, Hopefully Not

Your character defects are not where you're bad, but where you're wounded. But no matter who or what causes the wound, it's yours now and you're responsible for it.

Topics: Character, Matter, Causes

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.

Topics: Success, Mean, Sleep

Spiritual progress is like a detoxification.

Topics: Spiritual, Progress, Spirituality, Spiritual Progress

Love is about letting go of the fears that stand in front of our hearts.

Topics: Letting Go, Heart, Love Is

What we give, we will receive, and what we withhold will be withheld from us.

Topics: Law Of Attraction, Giving, Attraction

Prepare for the new; expect the new; embrace the new. Otherwise, you'll just repeat what's old.

source: - FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Sep 07, 2010

Topics: Embrace

I have lived large parts of my life in wonderful circumstances that I utterly failed to appreciate. Reasons to be happy were everywhere, but somehow I didn't connect with them. It was as though I was eating but couldn't taste the food. Finally, I've learned to celebrate the good while it's happening. I feel gratitude and praise today for what are sometimes such simple pleasures. I have learned that happiness is not determined by circumstances. Happiness is not what happens when everything goes the way you think it should go; happiness is what happens when you decide to be happy.

Topics: Happiness, Gratitude, Simple, Reasons To Be Happy, Simple Pleasures

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.

Topics: Love, Inspirational, Forgiveness, Peaceful Mind, Peaceful Life

In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.

Topics: Fall, Falling Apart, Absence, Slowly But Surely

The one good thing about failure is that it makes you consider doing things a different way.

Topics: Attitude, Way, Different

Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.

Topics: Love, Emotional, Worry

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

Topics: Confidence, Belief In Self

The wise person doesn't ask, "What have I achieved?" but rather, "What have I contributed?"

Topics: Inspirational, Wise, Persons, Lecturer, Lifetime Achievement

We can't look to the world to restore our worth; we're here to restore our worth to the world. The world outside us can reflect our glory, but it cannot create it. It cannot crown us. Only God can crown us, and he already has.

Topics: World, Looks, Crowns

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