Marianne Williamson
Making our goal anything other than peace is emotionally self-destructive.Collection: Self
I feel that the term "new age" is used by basically hostile media to diminish and marginalize a conversation that is very significant. It's held in place by journalists who are constantly looking for hooks and sound bites to keep them from having to make the effort of a deeper understanding and a more profound level of communication with the public.Collection: Communication
In that Holy Place where you tell Him everything and he understands; there are angels who stand in wait to hear his every command. How may they serve you and increase your joy?Collection: Angel
When infants aren't held, they can become sick, even die. It's universally accepted that children need love, but at what age are people supposed to stop needing it? We never do. We need love in order to live happily, as much as we need oxygen in order to live at all.Collection: Children
You need not apologize for being brilliant, talented, gorgeous, rich, or smart.Collection: Smart
We need not wait for the world to become more mystical; the world is mystical. Our problem is not that the world lacks magic; our problem is that we don't believe in its magic. We do not show up fully for life, and then wonder why life is not showing up more fully for us.Collection: Believe
Do not fear. Look beyond what's dying to what's being born.Collection: Dying
Cynicism is just an excuse for not helping.Collection: Helping Others
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.Collection: Children
What if we truly believed that there is a beneficent order to things, a force that's holding things together without our conscious control? What if we could see, in our daily lives, the working of that force? What if we believed it loved us somehow and cared for us, and protected us? What if we believed we could afford to relax?Collection: Order
A holy relationship is where the brokenness and wounds of the world are not escaped so much as as transformed by love, not hidden from but risen above.Collection: World
Seek more opportunities to put more love in the world.Collection: Opportunity
The world as we know it is falling apart at the seams, because it's an inadequate container for the truth of who we are.Collection: Truth
The only feelings you really need to fear are those you ignore.Collection: Feelings
Relationships are part of a vast plan for our enlightenment, the Holy Spirit's blueprint by which each individual soul is led to greater awareness and expanded love. Relationships are the Holy Spirit's laboratories in which he brings together people who have the maximal opportunity for mutual growth.Collection: Inspirational
As we give, so shall we receive. Service does not mean self-sacrifice. It means giving the needs of another person the same priority as our own.Collection: Mean
Hopefully, I will emerge more shining. If I have that good fortune, if I am blessed in that way - and I do feel I am in the middle of the blessing - then I have faith my service will be greater.Collection: Blessed
We are living at an extraordinary time in human history. And for many of us things are great. Things are great for me.Collection: Great Things
I'm not a doom-and-gloom person. But I think there is a difference between transcendence and denial, and much of the Western world is in major denial today.Collection: Thinking
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. 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.Collection: Spiritual
When women think of power, we shouldn’t think of it only for ourselves. We should be thinking about what we’re going to do with power, once we have it. Women should be standing up powerfully and passionately for the care and protection of children, as well as the care and protection of the Earth itself. Women’s voices should be front and center in protecting both our young and our habitat. That’s the way it is in any species that survives.Collection: Children
I don't think making love the new bottom line is naïve; I believe that thinking we can survive the next hundred years doing anything less, is naïve.Collection: Believe
Given how deeply the ways of war have penetrated our collective consciousness, it will take spiritual power to turn the issue around.Collection: Spiritual
If you think humanity can get itself out of all this mess without divine help, then you're not being hopeful - you're hallucinating.Collection: Thinking
We don't need to fight the forces of chaos so much as we need to restore and revitalize the forces of peace.Collection: Fighting
Anyone who is speaking of a greater compassion, a greater humanitarian concern, is a leader paving the path we all need to follow.Collection: Compassion
I do believe 50 is the new 40 and 60 is the new 50. Hell, maybe 60 can be the new 40, I don't know. I believe that when we give ourselves permission, we can live with an excitement and heat and passion that most women in previous generations were unable to attain.Collection: Believe
The revolution of ideas that will save us is a revolution of goodwill, of compassion, and of higher thinking. I believe that they outnumber the people who would choose fear. But they are not a particularly politicized force. If you look at the numbers of people buying books about revolutions from within and personal transformation as the key to global change, the numbers add up to a much greater audience than most people realize.Collection: Believe
People tend to have a government that reflects the level of consciousness of the majority of people who voted.Collection: Government
Beauty is an internal light, a spiritual radiance that all women have, but most women hide - unconsciously denying its existence. What we do not claim, remains invisible.Collection: Spiritual
What I think about you, I will not be able to escape thinking about myself, and what I do to you, I will not be able to escape experiencing myself.Collection: Thinking
As long as you identify with the universe - which is perfect and can correct material conditions to bring them back into alignment with that Divine perfection - as long as that is where your mind is aligned, it's as though there were two parallel universes. You decide with every thought you think which one you're going to inhabit. Two parallel universes of experience, as it were.Collection: Thinking
My father's politics were old-fashioned in the sense that he used to say, all the time, "You've got to fight the system!" But my spiritual beliefs have led me to believe that the fight is the problem.Collection: Spiritual
Obviously, our political system is profoundly corrupted by, among other things, the influence of money. But, at a deeper level, the current structure is flawed because it looks to citizens for only two things - votes and money. I don't think we will see any healing until citizens are viewed in a whole new way.Collection: Healing
In every moment, we make a choice about which direction we are going to go. Once we realize that this is a self-correcting and self-organizing universe, then we don't have to look any further than our own life circumstances, the relationships and situations that we are in, to begin the transformation.Collection: Self
The real axis of social change is not horizontal, but vertical. We don’t need a whole bunch of people gathering to think shallow thoughts together. What we need is for as many people as are ready to go there, to gather and think deep thoughts together.Collection: Real
I feel that the social revolution of the sixties is like a revolving door that came our way, and then left. It's back again.Collection: Doors
If you went to live in the Himalayas and everyone was lovely there, I'm sure it would be fairly easy to be a spiritual master.Collection: Spiritual
I think the violence in the world right now is being reflected inside people. And I also believe the violence inside people is being reflected in the world.Collection: Believe
You get to the point where you realize that unless you, yourself, become more of the change, you can't create too much change.Collection: Too Much
Whomever it is you were born to be, whatever your soul was coded to accomplish, whatever lessons you were born to learn, now is the time to get serious and get going.Collection: Soul
Midlife is not the time to disenchant ourselves. It's a time to turn on all our magic in full force.Collection: Magic
The implication was that if you had any skepticism whatsoever, you were anti-science. I think there's a difference between having skepticism about science and having skepticism about the pharmaceutical industry.Collection: Thinking
Great people are not people who have never fallen down. Greatness has to do with how you get back up.Collection: Encouragement
You are emerging from the cocoon of your former self. There are no limits to the extent of the transformation that's possible for you.Collection: Self
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.Collection: God
The only thing missing in any situation is that in which you are not givingCollection: Giving
From a pure metaphysical perspective, there is no world outside ourselves. So, at the deepest level, the state of the planet is more a reflection of the consciousness of mankind than the consciousness of mankind is a reflection of world events.Collection: Reflection
The biggest problem is our lack of "response-ability." That’s what happens when money rather than love is the bottom line. People act like idiots.Collection: Love Is