Marianne Williamson Quotes

The only way the past can drag you back is if you choose to bring it with you into the present.

The world we knew as children is still buried within our minds. Our childlike self is the deepest level of our being. It is who we really are, and what is real doesn't go away.

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.

To me, everything happening inside of us is political.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

We don't reach the light through endless analysis of the dark. We reach the light by choosing the light.

No matter what's happening in your life, you can change the trajectory of events by closing your eyes, reviewing your thought and behavior, and sending love wherever you've been withholding it.

It's the beginning of your day. You awake and look around you, feeling perhaps a joyful expectation, or perhaps an awful dread. No matter which, remember this: God loves you with an infinite love.

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.

I just want to write books or give talks which, if I were in the audience or I were the reader, I would appreciate.

The change we are looking for is always a change within ourselves. And the change will come. I've noticed that as long as I'm willing to be different, something or someone arrives to show me how.

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

Some things need to be let go before other things can be let in.

Personal growth can be painful, because it can make us feel ashamed and humiliated to face our own darkness. But our spiritual goal is the journey out of fear-based, painful mental habit patterns, to those of love and peace.

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.

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

God, please use me" is the most powerful affirmation we can say for an abundant career. It is the miracle-worker's prayer. Everybody wants a great job. Accept that it's already been given you. The fact that you're alive means a function has been assigned to you: open your heart to everyone and everything. That way you're a vessel of God. Don't worry about what to say or what to do. He'll let you know.

Imagine that anything is possible, and name the most amazing thing that could happen in 2013.

The Real You isn't damaged goods. The Real You is the light of the universe.

I think that's what we all want on this earth - to feel that at some level we have connected with other human beings.

Conscious awareness is the source of our healing...Only when you say the truth can the truth set you free. This is not a negative process, but at times it is a difficult process.

In any moment, in any circumstance, a miracle will occur when we align ourselves with truth.

No matter what is happening now, events will ultimately bend toward love the way a flower bends toward sunlight.

The outer kingdom is not our real home. The inner kingdom is our everything.

If you think humanity can get itself out of all this mess without divine help, then you're not being hopeful - you're hallucinating.

We need to recognize that part our political problem is that we do not participate effectively, that we suffer from a kind of mental slumber.

The last thing we should do is allow ourselves to be infantilized by a counterfeit version of enlightenment.

The universe is a multi-dimension al creative process, constantly forming new facets of possibility for you and all living things. Expanding our awareness of the process, we allow ourselves to experience more of it. Every moment we can remember that ANYTHING is possible in a realm of endless possibility.

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.

Where there is lack, God’s abundance is on the way. Hold on. Have faith. It’s coming.

Our career is not something that we go out and *find.* Your perfect career is something that emerges from deep within you. When you are aligned with the truth within yourself, then you magnetize people and circumstances which align with that truth.

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.

We will make love an art and we will love like artists.

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

Freedom has its risks.

When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness

If you want to end darkness you cannot beat it with a baseball bat, you have to turn on a light.

Relationship are part of the vast plan for our enlightenment.

Our deepest human need is not material at all. Our deepest need is to be seen.

Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings.

We love purely when we release other people to be who they are.

I'm not bowled over by how different all the world's religions are - I'm bowled over by how similar they are.

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

Miracles arise from conviction. Be convicted about these things: Miracles can happen. Miracles do happen. Love makes them happen.

Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don't yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving.

Become more accepting. With every interaction, surrender any tendency to judge another person. Pray for a more accepting heart.

It is your thoughts and your thoughts alone that determine what's possible for you now.

Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?