Enlightenment doesn't mean we were never wounded; it means we've found a way to evolve beyond our wounds. Enlightenment isn't idealistic; it's practical. What's idealistic is thinking we can live from our wounds, stay in our weakness, and ever transform the world.
Marianne WilliamsonLove is who we are, and when we deviate from that love we're deviating from our ultimate, essential, eternal reality.
Marianne WilliamsonWhen a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
Marianne WilliamsonSometimes a miracle is a change in material conditions, such as physical healing. At other times, it is a psychological or emotional change.
Marianne WilliamsonAnything having to do with what is happening inside people has political significance to me. That is why I like the term "holistic politics."
Marianne WilliamsonJudaism, Christianity, and I'm sure other religions also, are having to deal with the fact that they may or may not have lived up at all times to the injunctions of their own mystical center. For instance, when I went to Sunday school, I remember learning more about Jewish history than about God. So, once again, that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the Jewish religion, it just means that sometimes people are not fed the mystical food - the spiritual food - of their own religious background.
Marianne Williamson