Marianne Williamson Quotes

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

It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time.

I can’t say that there are “things” that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive. Those are thoughts that take me beyond myself; that remind me that there’s a bigger game going on on this planet than simply my own existence; that love works miracles, and how much we need them now.

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.

I really got into Osho's books. I have always loved his books. They were top notch.

The universe is not only self-organizing, it is also self-correcting.

As long as we remain vigilant at building our internal abundance—an abundance of integrity, an abundance of forgiveness, an abundance of service, an abundance of love—then external lack is bound to be temporary.

To me, that's the important issue about spiritual principle: that you recognize it as both that which saves you from the self-sabotaging mind and that which heals you and lifts you up when you succumb to it and attract whatever personal disaster you attract.

Fuzzy thinking is, after all, just one step above not thinking at all. But to take the ideas of serious transformational thinkers and philosophers and throw the "new age" label at them is also abhorrent.

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

Forgiving the past means remembering the love there, and releasing all the rest as the illusion that it really was.

Harry Potter is one boy in a long line of mythical heroes who have reminded the human race that we are so much more than we think we are, so much more powerful than we seem to know. Jesus said that we would someday do even greater works than He; should we not take Him at His word? And should not 'someday' be today? It's time for us to start working miracles, if indeed we have the capacity within us to do so.

No one is longing to meet a desperate needy, angry, withholding, controlling person. If your beloved is out there they can't pick up your signals if you're dwelling in those spaces within yourself.

If you are dealing with life from a low-level sensibility, the Internet can be a tool for manifesting that. But if you're dealing with life from the highest sensibility, it can also be your tool for manifesting that. The simple reason is that it doesn't cost money.

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

King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are.

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.

Everyone archetypally is a parent to future generations.

The purpose of prayer is the alignment of the mind with the thoughts and the will of God.

Once you know that every moment and every person and every situation has something to teach you, you're a student all day. You know it's the depth of your observation that is the issue - not how much the world has to show you.

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

Whatever we focus on is bound to expand. Where we see the negative, we call forth more negative. And where we see the positive, we call forth more positive. Having loved and lost, I now love more passionately. Having won and lost, I now win more soberly. Having tasted the bitter, I now savor the sweet.

There is a current mythology in our culture that anytime we meet someone and have that "enchanted evening" experience, that experience of looking into the eyes of the other and falling hopelessly in love - that this is nothing more than a delusion; a mutual projection, a fantasy that will only last until reality sets in.

To the extent to which we believe in this world, we are heir to the laws which rule this place.

We need more than a new politics; what we need is a new worldview. We need a fundamentally different bottom line.

Every thought creates form on some level and all that our physical experience is - is a reflection of our thoughts.

When it comes to our money and work lives, most of us have had our challenges, our valleys. Most of us have a couple of files in our head. One, I name "It was my own damn fault." And the other one I name, "I don't know how I will ever forgive those bastards."

The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.

There is an old cliche, 'You can see the glass half empty, or you can see it half full.' You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right. But whatever you focus on, you're going to get more of. Creation is an extension of thought. Think lack, and you get lack. Think abundance, and you get more.

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

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

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Where there is peace, there cannot be chaos; the two cannot coexist at the same time.

Love, when it is a sacred quest, is a space of resurrection and repair. It does more than help us survive a soulless world; it helps us to transform.

While it is tempting to believe that you are the victim of certain people or forces beyond your control, A Course in Miracles teaches you to recognize that you are not a victim. Through the grace of God, you are lifted above and beyond any forces-internal or external-that threaten to limit you. Knowing you're not a victim is a major form of personal empowerment.

We are dominated on this planet by a fear-based rather than a love-based thought system. Enlightenment involves relinquishing the thought system based on fear and instead accepting a thought system based on love.

We need to shift from an economic to a humanitarian organizing principle for human civilization. And women, en masse, should be saying so.

The reason we don't often confront the larger question of whether or not war is survivable is because of a failure of imagination. We honestly cannot imagine having reached a state in our own evolution in which we do not fight.

Every problem emerges from the false belief we are separate from one another, and every answer emerges from the realization we are not.

No matter how sad we might be, the universe is still planning our happiness.

I don't think that my twenties were any more dramatic than those of most people I know. I was never that bad and I never became that good.

Every relationship is a gift exchange.

There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people

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.

Everything connects to everything; therefore, as we change, the world cannot but change with us.

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.

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

I've always wanted to have a radio show. It has been a dream of mine for a long time. With a radio show I can sit in a studio, or ultimately even sit in my own living room, and talk to hundreds of thousands of people.