“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.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Relationships are eternal. The ‘separation’ is another chapter in the relationship. Often, letting go of the old form of the relationship becomes a lesson in pure love much deeper than any would have learned had the couple stayed together.”
― Marianne Williamson
“One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet once I did, I had an unexpected surprise. Rather than self-hatred, I was flooded with compassion for myself because I realized the pain necessary to develop that coping mechanism to begin with.”
― Marianne Williamson
“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.”
― Marianne Williamson
“We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be?”
― Marianne Williamson
“We’re often afraid of looking at our shadow because we want to avoid the shame or embarrassment that comes along with admitting mistakes.”
― Marianne Williamson
“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.”
― Marianne Williamson
“The spiritual path – is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don’t know it.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Old Newtonian physics claimed that things have an objective reality separate from our perception of them. Quantum physics, and particularly Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, reveal that, as our perception of an object changes, the object itself literally changes.”
― Marianne Williamson
“The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Old systems do not fold willingly, particularly when they control gargantuan amounts of wealth and power. But like empires of old – from the Romans to the Hapsburgs to the colonial British – even the largest do fall.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don’t see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Prayer is the medium of miracles; in whatever way works for you, pray right now.”
― Marianne Williamson
“It doesn’t take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time.”
― Marianne Williamson
“The holidays are only holy if we make them so.”
― Marianne Williamson
“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.”
― Marianne Williamson
“I believe that hunger for a ‘lost dimension’ of experience is a natural yearning in all of us, and it doesn’t go away just because we ignore it. It is evidenced among other places in the millions of children and adults who obsessively read the ‘Harry Potter’ books. It is said that fiction is where someone gets to tell the truth.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.”
― Marianne Williamson
“My self healing lies in praying for those who have harmed me.”
― Marianne Williamson
“The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Just as you wouldn’t leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn’t start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.”
― Marianne Williamson
“The Law of Divine Compensation posits that this is a self-organizing and self-correcting universe: the embryo becomes a baby, the bud becomes a blossom, the acorn becomes an oak tree. Clearly, there is some invisible force that is moving every aspect of reality to its next best expression.”
― Marianne Williamson
“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.”
― Marianne Williamson
“All of us wish we’d had perfect childhoods, with a mother and father who modeled ideal parental attitudes and taught us to internalize the tenets of self-love. Many of us, however, did not.”
― Marianne Williamson
“You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.”
― Marianne Williamson
“We tend to lack humility toward love, to patronize it rather than bow before it, to put mundane considerations before the emotional need to hold someone in our arms.”
― Marianne Williamson
“May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.”
― Marianne Williamson
“The mortal mind alone cannot devise an answer to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, because the true answer lies on a level of consciousness that’s beyond our mortal thinking. Quite simply, when it comes to Israel and the Palestinians, we need a miracle.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Anytime you try to be a loving person, you’re doing your part to save the world.”
― Marianne Williamson
“The present moment, if you think about it, is the only time there is. No matter what time it is, it is always now.”
― Marianne Williamson
“I never thought being famous would be wonderful, but my limited exposure to celebrity has shown me the dark side big-time.”
― Marianne Williamson
“I love prayer candles, and I use them often.”
― Marianne Williamson
“In the name of feminism, we denied some essential aspects of our authentic selves. While feminism should have been nothing if not a celebration of our own unique characteristics, we insisted that we had no unique characteristics… that gender differences were hogwash, and a feminine woman was nothing more than a plaything for men.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Now if you know what makes one person’s life change, then you know what makes a nation change – because a nation is simply a large group of individuals.”
― Marianne Williamson
“The point of Jesus’ existence wasn’t to lessen or diminish our appreciation of each other, but to expand our appreciation of each other by reminding us what lies within all of us, because Jesus was an example of the pinnacle of human evolution.”
― Marianne Williamson
“We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Try to see the good in others. When you’re tempted to judge someone, make an effort to see their goodness. Your willingness to look for the best in people will subconsciously bring it forth.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. ‘Know thyself’ is not a narcissistic pursuit.”
― Marianne Williamson
“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.”
― Marianne Williamson
“People crave comfort, people crave connection, people crave community.”
― Marianne Williamson
“I think the heartbreak of September 11 – America’s grief not only over the loss of life but also the loss of our own innocence – has expanded us as people because it has tenderized our hearts. On a psychological level, the American people have matured as a result of that awful day.”
― Marianne Williamson
“An enchanted love, an awakened love, between two people is a blessing on the entire world.”
― Marianne Williamson
“The primary social contract between the people of the United States and their government – quaint though it might seem to even mention it at this point – is that ours is to be a government ‘of the people, by the people, for the people.’”
― Marianne Williamson
“I have a gruff side. This is not exactly news… At the same time, anyone who wants to judge me for this can walk a mile in my moccasins. And then we’ll talk.”
― Marianne Williamson
“The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.”
― Marianne Williamson
“I think of prayer as a spiritual lifeline back to where I most want to be.”
― Marianne Williamson
“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.”
― Marianne Williamson
“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.”
― Marianne Williamson
“One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Our task, in the aftermath of September 11, was and continues to be the transformation of the effects of evil into something beautiful and good.”
― Marianne Williamson
“When it comes to politics today, the devils’ not in the details; the devil’s in the big picture, more often than not just hiding in plain sight.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Use each interaction to be the best, most powerful version of yourself.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Our key to transforming anything lies in our ability to reframe it.”
― Marianne Williamson
“In the hands of the ego, marriage is a prison. It is exclusive. It is a place where people are constantly reminded of their failures and limited by the energies of another person. It is rife with judgment and blame.”
― Marianne Williamson
“The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Nature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Everyone archetypally is a parent to future generations.”
― Marianne Williamson
“We Liberals like to think our thoughts aren’t controlled. We pride ourselves on our independent thinking. We know we shouldn’t believe everything we read. We realize the media is skewed, we know it’s owned by a small group of people, we realize it’s biased, etc.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Life is not a piece of tragic fiction in which, at the end of the reading, we all get up and go out for drinks.”
― Marianne Williamson
“As someone who has faced as much disappointment as most people, I’ve come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way.”
― Marianne Williamson
“If someone thinks homosexuality is immoral, they have a right to believe that.”
― Marianne Williamson
“The ego mind both professes its desire for love and does everything possible to repel it, or if it gets here anyway, to sabotage it. That is why dealing with issues like control, anger, and neediness is the most important work in preparing ourselves for love.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Everything we do is infused with the energy in which we do it. If we’re frantic, life will be frantic. If we are peaceful, life will be peaceful.”
― Marianne Williamson
“God is limitless in His love, and asks that we at least make the effort to be limitless in ours.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Human civilization as we know it is like the Titanic headed for the iceberg, whether the iceberg be nuclear, environmental or terrorism-related.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Today, most Americans are too cynical, or tired, or both, to even approximate our Founders’ courageous repudiation of injustice.”
― Marianne Williamson
“The top of one mountain is always the bottom of another.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Family relationships trigger childhood wounds, and those wounds often trump our rational thinking. We can’t ‘rationally’ transcend the kind of primal pain that such relationships can arouse.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Jesus is a personal symbol of the Holy Spirit. Having been totally healed by the Holy Spirit, Jesus became one with him. Every thought, action, and deed of Jesus was guided by the Holy Spirit instead of ego.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Love is all around us all the time. Love is the ethers that we swim in. Love is the amniotic fluid of the soul.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Each of us has an inner room where we can visit to be cleansed of fear-based thoughts and feelings. This room, the holy of holies, is a sanctuary of light.”
― Marianne Williamson
“America won’t be saved because one or 10 people stand up. It will be saved because millions of us stand up.”
― Marianne Williamson
“The universe is conspiring in every moment to bring me happiness and peace.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Today’s average American is more apt to rebel against a tennis shoe not coming in the right color than against the slow erosion of our democratic freedom.”
― Marianne Williamson
“In 2004, Kucinich was the only presidential candidate who warned that a war in Iraq would be completely disastrous. I remember how mocked he was when he predicted hand-to-hand combat in Baghdad. I remember Candy Crowley, and other reporters as well, treating his views on the impending war as ridiculous, out there, almost insane.”
― Marianne Williamson
“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.”
― Marianne Williamson
“People 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.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.”
― Marianne Williamson
“The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Martin Luther King said it was time to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of human civilization. I don’t think anyone is calling Martin Luther King a New Age woo-woo.”
― Marianne Williamson
“The Latin root of the word ‘politics’ means ‘of the people.’ Politics is about something bigger than electoral politics; in that sense, I feel like I’m already involved.”
― Marianne Williamson
“While overeating would be seen by some as an indulgence of self, it is in fact a profound rejection of self. It is a moment of self-betrayal and self-punishment, and anything but a commitment to one’s own well-being.”
― Marianne Williamson
“We are material beings for but a moment in time, but we are spiritual beings forever.”
― Marianne Williamson
“When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.”
― Marianne Williamson
“When you’ve written 10 books and have six on the New York Times best-seller list – and four have been No. 1 – I think you have a right to be a member of Congress.”
― Marianne Williamson
“In Taoist philosophy, ‘yin’ is the feminine principle, representing the forces of earth, while ‘yang’ is the masculine principle, representing spirit.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life.”
― Marianne Williamson
“God is definitely out of the closet.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Joy, has no cost.”
― Marianne Williamson
“You’ve committed no sins, just mistakes.”
― Marianne Williamson
“There’s nothing more powerful than a woman who knows how to contain her power and not let it leak, standing firmly within it in mystery and silence. A woman who talks too much sheds her allure.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Over the years, many people on a spiritual journey have asked me why I keep going on about politics, and many people involved in politics have asked me why I keep going on about spirituality.”
― Marianne Williamson
“There is nothing that a military machine can do to work a miracle.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Become more accepting. With every interaction, surrender any tendency to judge another person. Pray for a more accepting heart.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman’s toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.”
― Marianne Williamson
“We have allowed an unholy alliance of government – the new monarchy – and corporate influence – the new aristocracy – to take control of events in a way that would have made our Founders shudder.”
― Marianne Williamson
“When I was just writing books and giving lectures, if people disagreed, they just didn’t buy your book or attend your lectures. But, if you’re leading a congregation, people feel they have the right to tell you what you should or shouldn’t talk about. And that hasn’t always been easy for me.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Priests, ministers and rabbis are asking where the children are going. Slowly but surely, they’re seeing that people are hungry for something beyond the doctrine. It isn’t that they don’t want religious truth. But they want the mystical core, the heart of the religious truth.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Charles Manson ate apples. That doesn’t mean I’m not going to.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Allopathic doctors used to laugh condescendingly at those who posited that psychological, emotional and spiritual factors were important contributors to the sickness as well as healing of the body.”
― Marianne Williamson
“I read an article somewhere that stated 1 in 4 American women will be considered clinically depressed in their lifetime. This should be more than a gold mine for pharmaceutical companies – it should be a wake-up call.”
― Marianne Williamson
“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.”
― Marianne Williamson
“At their peak, religion and psychotherapy become one.”
― Marianne Williamson
“The Project Angel Food Program’s mission is to nourish the body and spirit of men, women and children affected by HIV/AIDS and other serious illness. The Project Angel Food Program delivers free and nutritious meals prepared with love. We act out of a sense of urgency because hunger and illness cannot wait.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Enchanted partnership begins with the conscious understanding, on the part of two people, that the purpose of their relationship is not so much material as spiritual, and the internal skills demanded by it are prodigious.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Doug Motel makes ‘conscious comedy’. He makes me laugh, and he makes me think.”
― Marianne Williamson
“You label somebody ‘New Age,’ and that’s automatic mockery: ‘She cannot possibly be a serious thinker.’”
― Marianne Williamson
“In the East, the guru never calls himself a guru.”
― Marianne Williamson
“People with AIDS, cancer and other illnesses need free nonmedical support services.”
― Marianne Williamson
“The basic premise of ‘A Course in Miracles’ is that it teaches us to relinquish thoughts based on fear and to accept instead thoughts based on love.”
― Marianne Williamson
“’Accepting the Christ’ is merely a shift in self-perception.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Most women I know are priestesses and healers… We are, all of us, sisters of a mysterious order.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Any conversation which does not include the context of the journey of the heart is by definition untrue to who we are as human beings.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Religion is like a map. The route isn’t important. It’s the destination that matters.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Spiritual growth and spirituality always seem suspect to some people.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Institutional memory is important in any organization, but so are fresh ideas.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Many people are despairing of the possibility of finding love. And some of the people who are despairing the most are in their thirties and forties and looking just great.”
― Marianne Williamson
“In my first book, ‘A Return to Love’, I wrote about things in the outer world that need to change – how we need to ameliorate deep poverty, heal the earth, end war.”
― Marianne Williamson
“If you’re trained in metaphysics, you don’t see the world as distinct from yourself. You are one with the world.”
― Marianne Williamson
“We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that’s possible and pain that’s all too common. We hope for love and success and abundance, but we never quite forget that there is always lurking the possibility of disaster.”
― Marianne Williamson
“There’s a certain je ne sais quoi that Americans have in spades – a we-can-do-anything spirit that makes so many things possible for all of us. We’re rugged individualists, aspirational in nature, and we like to think for ourselves.”
― Marianne Williamson
“The Founders didn’t mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washington in essence warned us against them in his Farewell Address.”
― Marianne Williamson
“In my lifetime, we have lost a President, a Civil Rights leader and a Presidential candidate – all to gun violence.”
― Marianne Williamson
“The entire political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks inclusion. It lacks tenderness toward children. It lacks honor for relationships. It lacks reverence for the earth. It lacks love. And without those things, the feminine psyche disconnects.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Only do what you feel called in your heart to do, and then give all of yourself to the task.”
― Marianne Williamson
“I’m proud to say I was part of a movement in which we sang ‘All You Need Is Love’ at political rallies.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Judaism is interesting in that there is something there that I think you just can’t understand if you’re not a Jew – it moves into a realm of true mystery.”
― Marianne Williamson
“The number one root of all illness, as we know, is stress.”
― Marianne Williamson
“With thoughts of the past and concerns about the future, we rob ourselves of a full experience of the present.”
― Marianne Williamson
“The world is a holographic universe, with every piece containing the whole.”
― Marianne Williamson
“God goes with me everywhere, because God is in my mind.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Americans are good people, and at times we can be wise. But we’re often under-informed by media, misinformed by our government and ill-served by both.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Unforgiveness is like drinking poison yourself and waiting for the other person to die.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Whatever it is that leads human beings to hate, to destroy, and to kill has taken on a collective force like never before, as technology and globalization now give it the capacity to not just strike, but to strike us all, together, as one.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Presidential campaigns are exhausting. Once they’re over, we all heave a sigh of relief that we have our lives back, the constant emails and news reports no longer harangue us, and the topic even turns at times to something else entirely.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Americans are good with to-do lists; just tell us what to do, and we’ll do it. Throughout our history, we have proven that. Colonize. Check. Win our independence. Check. Form a union. Check. Expand to the Pacific. Check. Settle the West. Check. Keep the Union together. Check. Industrialize. Check. Fight the Nazis. Check.”
― Marianne Williamson
“To me, when I think of New Age, I think of crystals and rainbows and platitudes.”
― Marianne Williamson
“The speed of change today is faster than the human psyche seems able to handle, and it’s increasingly difficult to reconcile the rhythms of our personal lives with the rapidity of a twenty-four-hour news cycle.”
― Marianne Williamson
“The press creates a caricature.”
― Marianne Williamson
“I don’t know anybody who doesn’t have a lost decade.”
― Marianne Williamson
“The force that keeps the planets revolving around the sun would be glad to handle the circumstances of your life, if only you would ask him to.”
― Marianne Williamson
“You can’t ‘work through worry and fear rationally,’ because fear isn’t rational!”
― Marianne Williamson
“As we become purer channels for God’s light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.”
― Marianne Williamson
“God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.”
― Marianne Williamson
“If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.”
― Marianne Williamson
“I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.”
― Marianne Williamson
“If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.”
― Marianne Williamson
“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.”
― Marianne Williamson
“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.”
― Marianne Williamson
“We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.”
― Marianne Williamson
“I’ve never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching.”
― Marianne Williamson
“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.”
― Marianne Williamson
“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?’”
― Marianne Williamson
“Physical circumstances have very little to do with either our capacity to love or to attract love.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Love knows how to form itself. God will do his work if we do ours. Our job is to prepare ourselves for love. When we do, love finds us every time.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Hope lies in having more faith in the power of God to heal us than in the power of anything to hurt or destroy us. In realizing that as children of God we are bigger than our problems, we have the power at last to confront them.”
― Marianne Williamson
“It’s a fraction of the cost to prevent a war than prosecute a war.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Nothing is so dangerous for our security as large groups of desperate people.”
― Marianne Williamson
“The human race is evolving to the realization that what is happening on the level of consciousness both precedes and determines what happens in the world.”
― Marianne Williamson
“War is just an effect, not a cause.”
― Marianne Williamson
“We experience God to the extent to which we love, forgive, and focus on the good in others and ourselves.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Children are not children. They are just younger people.”
― Marianne Williamson
“We have the same soul at 60 that we had at 40, and the same soul at 25 that we had when we were 5.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Buckminster Fuller was one of those world historic geniuses who reminded us of the extraordinary things that are possible, and inspires all of us to set about doing them!”
― Marianne Williamson
“The world cannot evolve if girls refuse to become women.”
― Marianne Williamson
“I’m always honored to be speaking alongside Deepak Chopra.”
― Marianne Williamson
“I went into therapy several times, but it rarely made an impact.”
― Marianne Williamson
“By my mid-20s, I was a total mess.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Gay men in a very real way created my career.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Movies can be instruments of enlightenment.”
― Marianne Williamson
“I know I’m not a great writer. I’m an extremely gifted oral communicator, but when it comes to writing, I’m just a beginner.”
― Marianne Williamson
“People who attend support groups who have been diagnosed with a life-challenging illness live on average twice as long after diagnosis as people who don’t.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Spirit is impervious to illness.”
― Marianne Williamson
“The AIDS virus is not more powerful than God.”
― Marianne Williamson
“When you turn your life over to God, you don’t give up the drama; you give up the cheap drama.”
― Marianne Williamson
“The Western world is having an identity crisis.”
― Marianne Williamson
“I would never, ever in my life say, ‘I want to go to Washington to heal the soul of Washington.’”
― Marianne Williamson
“Throughout my career I have been an advocate for women, in all aspects of their lives.”
― Marianne Williamson
“The undue influence of money on our politics is like a cancer underlying other cancers, the issue underlying all other issues.”
― Marianne Williamson
“America has swerved from its ethical center.”
― Marianne Williamson
“To me, drone use is a moral issue.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Would a man ever be called vain for speaking his mind?”
― Marianne Williamson
“Look at Fukushima. Should we or should we not agree with the U.S. government that none of that radioactive energy is making its way here? Hello!”
― Marianne Williamson
“Christ is born into the world through each of us.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Politics is in a crisis because it’s separated from our deep humanity.”
― Marianne Williamson
“In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Politics should not be the least heart-filled thing we do, it should be the most heart-filled thing we do.”
― Marianne Williamson
“When God created the world, he didn’t draw a line between Canada and America.”
― Marianne Williamson
“The fact that people in Hollywood are open to what I teach is not because they’re more desperate than anyone else, but because they’re more touched by it. That’s not their weakness. It’s their strength!”
― Marianne Williamson
“If anything is naive and lightweight, it’s the traditional political conversation.”
― Marianne Williamson
“The daughters of God don’t brake for jerks.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Any man who holds a woman back is not a man a woman can afford to be with.”
― Marianne Williamson
“When we are truly aware of our spiritual glory, a varicose vein or two is not that big a deal.”
― Marianne Williamson
“As citizens of the United States, we are stewards of this magnificent thing called democracy.”
― Marianne Williamson
“When America does what’s right, it’s such a light on this planet.”
― Marianne Williamson
“The ‘Course in Miracles’ says one day you will realize that death is not the punishment but the reward. And it says that birth is not the beginning of life but a continuation. And physical death is not the end of life but a continuation.”
― Marianne Williamson
“I didn’t realize that running as an independent would be perceived as a threat to the Democrats.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before.”
― Marianne Williamson
“A lot of my traditional audience does not appreciate my foray into politics.”
― Marianne Williamson
“An angry generation will not bring peace to the world; I do believe that.”
― Marianne Williamson
“I’m a provocateur.”
― Marianne Williamson
“I don’t think I represent some new category. I think I do represent kind of a freethinker.”
― Marianne Williamson
“There is no amount of money I can make which could buffer my daughter from the horrors that will explode in our society if we do not address the huge amount of suffering in our midst.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Being a mother makes everything more urgent.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Being a parent gives you historical perspective. You have thoughts about how you fit into a larger generational drama – those who came before and those who will come after.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Love is the intuitive knowledge of our hearts.”
― Marianne Williamson
“The same group of New York pseudo-intellectuals who’ve put down prayer are the same ones who put down L.A.”
― Marianne Williamson
“I’m an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.”
― Marianne Williamson
“When my sister was diagnosed with cancer in 1989, her doctor told her that the cancer had probably been in her system for 10 years. By the time cancer’s diagnosed, it’s usually been around for quite a while.”
― Marianne Williamson
“In most of our situations in life, if we take a good honest look at our lives, we are holding to small, limiting thoughts, cynical thoughts.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Certainly there is such a thing as chemical depression, and for that, obviously, there are issues that psychotherapists are much more expert at speaking to, but I think there is a low-grade depression that actually prevails in our society. And most of us feel it.”
― Marianne Williamson
“People are starting to wake up to the fact that a media/political party-complex basically decide our candidate, then create the illusion for the rest of us that in fact we’re the ones who did the deciding.”
― Marianne Williamson
“I’ve known Dennis Kucinich for a long time, and I don’t think I have illusions about him. Sometimes I find him pompous, male chauvinistic, intellectually unbending. But he is a good man, and a serious one.”
― Marianne Williamson
“You get enough people agreeing in consciousness that Mexico is a dangerous place, and that dangerous thought will make it so.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Sometimes a miracle is a change in material conditions, such as physical healing. At other times, it is a psychological or emotional change.”
― Marianne Williamson
“As all of us are only too aware, the loud and frantic voices of the outer world easily drown out the small, still loving voice within.”
― Marianne Williamson
“A threat to our freedom is a threat to our freedom, whether from a terrorist or from a trade deal.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Major political parties have a role, but they are incapable of initiating fundamental change because they are fundamentally tied to the status quo. They are the status quo.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Many times in life, we say we want change but are then terrified when the opportunity for it arrives.”
― Marianne Williamson
“People don’t live in Los Angeles because we are tied to the same old, same old. We live in Los Angeles because of the intoxicating energy of new beginnings that permeate our city.”
― Marianne Williamson
“I know politics is emotionally brutal; I’ve already had experience with the reality of smear campaigns, so I understand there will not be a path of roses laid before me.”
― Marianne Williamson
“If I just want to ‘start a conversation,’ I don’t need to run for office. As a matter of fact, it could be argued that many people are more open to hearing you if you’re not running for office.”
― Marianne Williamson
“We incarcerate more African-American men today than were slaves in 1850.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Viewing Israelis and Palestinians from a psychological perspective, they would both be seen as victims of abuse; that is how they both understandably feel, and it’s how they both understandably behave. The Jewish psyche is in victimized reaction to the Holocaust, and the Palestinian psyche is in victimized reaction to the Israelis.”
― Marianne Williamson
“I believe the Israelis have been wronged, but they also have a lot to apologize for. And I believe the Palestinians have been wronged, but they have a lot to apologize for, as well.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Whether the Sikhs want to worship in Wisconsin or the Christians want to worship in Texas or the Jews want to worship in New York, we’re living under the magnificent umbrella of a Constitution that says we can.”
― Marianne Williamson
“When I went to college in the 1970s, the Women’s Liberation movement was all the buzz.”
― Marianne Williamson
“While women were powerfully liberated both externally as well as internally by the feminism of the 1970s, we made some serious mistakes as well.”
― Marianne Williamson
“I now see that is a woman’s God-given role to tend to the home and take care of the children: it’s just that the entire planet is our home, and every child on it is one of our children.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Tragedy takes us to the very state of consciousness which, were we to hold to it, would go far toward preventing further tragedies.”
― Marianne Williamson
“In every advanced mammalian species that survives and thrives, a common anthropological characteristic is the fierce behavior of the adult female of the species when she senses a threat to her cubs. The lioness, the tigress and the mama bear are all examples.”
― Marianne Williamson
“An educated child earns more later in life, knows how to keep their own children from dying, produces more food, is less likely to get AIDS, and in the case of boys, is less likely to engage in armed civil conflict.”
― Marianne Williamson
“The whole Obama phenomenon brings up memories from my distant past: the good-looking guy who talks real good, whose line you don’t buy immediately but whose charm is so dazzling that he gradually convinces you that this time it will be different.”
― Marianne Williamson
“In ‘Healing the Soul of America,’ I wrote about Gandhi’s notion of soul force in politics and why it matters to stand on your truth.”
― Marianne Williamson
“For many, many people, getting married is one of the most important things they will ever do in the pursuit of happiness.”
― Marianne Williamson
“I can’t say that there are ‘things’ that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Politics in America is like stale bread. It’s so yada yada that the best among us can hardly stand it.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Never think you can separate who you are from what you’re doing.”
― Marianne Williamson
“In God, there is no lack and no recession.”
― Marianne Williamson
“It’s very scary having something wrong with your head.”
― Marianne Williamson
“We live in a world of easy friendships – people here for you when it’s easy, ‘so-sorry-but-I-have-an-errand-to-do-now’ when it’s not.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Jesus was a human being who, while on Earth, completely self-actualized and fulfilled in all ways the potential glory that lies within us all.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Divine organization is inherent in all things.”
― Marianne Williamson
“As a cell contains a natural intelligence by which it fosters the healthy functioning of the body, I, too, have natural intelligence that fosters the perfect unfolding of my life.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Governments move armies, but only individuals can move hearts.”
― Marianne Williamson
“In all the great religious systems, there are divine beings who represent the feminine face of the divine.”
― Marianne Williamson
“In our society, as people pass out of young adulthood, they tend to relate to themselves more in terms of what they are no longer than what they are now, and that’s psychologically low-grade devastating.”
― Marianne Williamson
“I remember I was walking through a store, and I saw clothes a 25-year-old would wear. And the conversation in my head was, ‘I’m not young and fabulous anymore.’ But, immediately, there was a voice that said, ‘No, you can be older and fabulous.’ In other words, still just as fabulous, but in a different way.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Marriage can be a magnificent lesson in becoming our best selves; that is true.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Spiritual principles do not change, but we do.”
― Marianne Williamson
“As we mature through the years, we access more deeply information we had only abstractly understood before.”
― Marianne Williamson
“I have known healthy, wealthy people who were depressed, and people with critical illnesses who could honestly attest to joy.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Your relationship to food is but a reflection of your relationship to yourself, as is everything in your life.”
― Marianne Williamson
“There’s no reason to think that you’ll be capable of loyalty to a diet until you address your basic disloyalty toward yourself.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Trust is very hard if you don’t know what you’re trusting.”
― Marianne Williamson
“I trust that when people meet, we meet for a transcendent reason, and that the challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul’s growth.”
― Marianne Williamson
“The man I love may decide tomorrow that he loves me no more – but if my heart remains open, I will endure the storm.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Marriage, like everything else in the world, is holy or unholy depending on the purpose the mind ascribes to it.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Ironically, it is when we identify with our spirits rather than our bodies that we are most powerful on the material plane. Our overidentification with the world does not give us power within the world so much as it diminishes our power here. It makes us frightened and nervous and full of anxiety.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Sometimes it’s easier to love people when there is a healthy distance between us.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Spiritual ‘exercise’ keeps your mind in shape the way physical exercise keeps your body in shape.”
― Marianne Williamson
“I want a woman president – really, I do.”
― Marianne Williamson
“It’s tempting, when confronted by political malfeasance, to become so absorbed with its symptom that we give too little attention to treating its cause.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Political propaganda seeks to affect the way people perceive the world in order to affect the way they behave.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Successful businesses create jobs; that is true. But the notion that if we cut taxes enough for the very rich and for already hugely profitable businesses, then all that money will trickle down to everyone else in the form of job creation is simply false.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Tax breaks and other financial breaks that favor the wealthiest among us do not create greater prosperity for all; they simply siphon off more and more money to those who already have it, and more and more money away from those who do not.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Spiritually, I understand that Trump is an innocent child of God. And before he was a Presidential candidate, I found him to be a kind of entertaining American character. But he is not entertaining anymore; he is frightening. He has been elected to the Presidency of the United States and yet he acts like he is mocking the job.”
― Marianne Williamson
“I place my life in the hands of God each day. And I trust that He knows what He’s doing, even when I do not.”
― Marianne Williamson
“We are graced with a greater capacity for direct contact with our own higher power than most of us are in the habit of using.”
― Marianne Williamson
“I trust life not because I trust the world, but because I trust the God who lives in my heart.”
― Marianne Williamson
“I try to remind myself not to go anywhere or do anything without asking for spiritual direction through prayer and meditation.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Donald Trump is an innocent child of God, and the democratically chosen president-elect of the United States. We must deeply bow before the first and deeply respect the second.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Pray for Trump’s sanity and clarity, because his power to cause real damage to our country is enormous.”
― Marianne Williamson
“I have no doubt that the lies Trump told on the campaign trail will come crashing back at him in karmic retribution.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Anyone who isn’t confused or conflicted on the topic of Israel probably isn’t looking into it too deeply.”
― Marianne Williamson
“There are two distinctly, almost surreally different narratives in Israel and Palestine… and to a great extent, both are right and both are wrong. Both peoples have suffered greatly and both have legitimate grievances against the other.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Anyone seeking a real solution in Israel and Palestine rejects the us-versus-them mentality entirely.”
― Marianne Williamson
“The struggle between Israelis and Palestinians is a perfect reflection of the struggle between fear and forgiveness that rages within us all.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Corporate totalitarianism means total control by corporate interests. If they want a war, they get a war. If they want GMOs, they get GMOs. If they want fracking, they get fracking. If they want big banks to control our monetary policy, big banks control our monetary policy.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Revolutions are not easy.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Empires always have the hubris to think they are indestructible, when in fact they are always unsustainable.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Abolition didn’t just happen – people made it happen. Women’s suffrage didn’t just happen – people made it happen. Civil Rights legislation didn’t just happen – people made it happen. And marriage equality didn’t just happen, either – people made it happen.”
― Marianne Williamson
“It’s a beautiful thing when democracy prevails.”
― Marianne Williamson
“Corporate America is not dumb; it’s worked hard to sew up both political parties in its nefarious schemes to place their short-term economic interests before the health and well-being of the average American.”
― Marianne Williamson
“The Republican corporatists are worse than the Democratic corporatists, but only to a degree. And Republican corporatists are at least true to their principles, however abhorrent those principles might be to some of us.”
― Marianne Williamson
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