Behind every dark cloud there is an every-shining sun. Just wait. In time, the cloud will pass.
Marianne WilliamsonYou don't have to be a spiritual seeker, you can be a businessman dealing with the revolution in computers. You could be a congressman, or a scientist. No matter what area of life and endeavor we are in we are seeing the signs of new-paradigm thinking.
Marianne WilliamsonMiracles occur naturally as expressions of love. When you choose to love, you choose to work miracles.
Marianne WilliamsonEvery ending is a new beginning. Through the grace of God, we can always start again. (Page 120.)
Marianne WilliamsonWe have a lot of choice about whether to interpret something as adversity or as opportunity. I see in myself the tendency at times to make situations worse than they have to be because of my catastrophic interpretation.
Marianne WilliamsonThe universe is intentional. It is always moving in the direction of greater love, regardless whether or not we consciously align with that love.
Marianne WilliamsonYou get to decide what energy you choose to download in any moment. No one but you gets to decide who you wish to be.
Marianne WilliamsonWe 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.
Marianne WilliamsonWhatever we put out, it's coming back to us. The universe keeps a perfect set of books.
Marianne WilliamsonClearly, there is some invisible force that is moving every aspect of reality to its next best expression. And the universe is not only self-organizing, it is also self-correcting. The embryo becomes a baby; the baby is born; its lungs continue to breathe - not only were they created but then they continue to breathe. The heart is not only created but it continues to breathe. If there is injury and disease that becomes present within the body, the body is also equipped with an immune system to correct that.
Marianne WilliamsonSome of the most patriarchal thinkers I know are women. Some of the most feminist thinkers are men.
Marianne WilliamsonPeople on a spiritual path - personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga and so forth - are the last people who should be sitting out the social and political issues of our day. And there’s an important reason for this: People on such journeys are adepts at change. They know that the mechanics of the heart and mind are the fundamental drivers of transformation.
Marianne WilliamsonThe only way to end a culture of violence is to proactively create a culture of peace.
Marianne WilliamsonSpiritual wisdom is now available to everyone, disseminated to the masses as never before in world history.
Marianne WilliamsonWhen 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.
Marianne WilliamsonTo 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.
Marianne WilliamsonThe world as we know it is falling apart at the seams, because it's an inadequate container for the truth of who we are.
Marianne WilliamsonWe are here to repair the world. I grew up thinking that was what everybody was trying to do.
Marianne WilliamsonThere is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.
Marianne WilliamsonWhen a woman gives birth, two are born: a baby from the womb of its mother and a woman from the womb of her former existence.
Marianne WilliamsonThese are very serious times, and serious people need to be doing some serious thinking.
Marianne WilliamsonIt's funny, I see Wendy Kaminer herself as a kind of guru - a guru of the fashionably cynical set. Yet she uses the term "guru" to minimize my career, to marginalize my thoughts and to trivialize my work, as well as those of others.
Marianne WilliamsonForgiveness 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.
Marianne WilliamsonNo 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.
Marianne WilliamsonA person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.
Marianne WilliamsonIf we come to see that this world does not have the final word, then we open our mind and therefore our entire lives to experience the possibility of infinite possibilities.
Marianne WilliamsonThe world we live in pictures a pie with only so many pieces, and if other people have more you have less, and you have to compete with other people in order to try to get ahead. You have to sell yourself at every available opportunity. The shift, the enlightened shift, has to do with a movement from competition to collaboration, from sales to service, from ambition to inspiration, and to a belief in scarcity to a belief in abundance as an eternal spiritual quality.
Marianne WilliamsonLiving in this world, under the dominance of the ego mind, is difficult. That's the struggle.
Marianne WilliamsonSpiritual Work is not easy. It means the willingness to surrender feelings that seem, while we're in them, like our defense against a greater pain. It means that we surrender to God our perceptions of all things.
Marianne WilliamsonIndividuals seem to have reached their walls and so has the entire human race. Whatever isn't working, isn't life-producing, isn't producing love for ourselves or others, is going to have to go now. Or, literally, there will be hell to pay.
Marianne WilliamsonLove is all around us all the time. Love is the ethers that we swim in. Love is the amniotic fluid of the soul.
Marianne WilliamsonConviction is a force multiplier. If you want something, claim it in your gut. The universe itself responds to your inner certainty.
Marianne WilliamsonI believe the human race is ready to make a quantum leap forward spiritually and morally.
Marianne WilliamsonIf we get away from the lazy and fuzzy thinking that is like a poison in our society - if we get away from all the bad television that we tend to watch - and begin to take up serious meditation and other sacred exercises, we will have a real revolution of consciousness. If that happens, the world will change by itself.
Marianne WilliamsonThe historian Arthur Schlesinger has pointed out that people tend to get interested in politics again every 30 years. The universe moves in cycles of three. The number figures in everything from Pythagoras's theory that the universe is based on three to the Father-the-Son-and-the-Holy- Ghost to the three-sided pyramidal shapes that intersect in the Jewish Star of David. The notion of the mystical three, metaphysically, spiritually, and even politically, is quite interesting to me.
Marianne Williamson