Marianne Williamson
It is our own thoughts that hold the key to miraculous transformation.Collection: Keys
Love and fear represent two different lenses through which to view the world. Which I choose to use will determine what I think I see.Collection: Love
Envision possibility. Don't worry who else believes in it; the universe is only looking for instructions from you.Collection: Believe
The world is in trouble. Many have prayed. God sent help. God sent you.Collection: God
The present moment, if you think about it, is the only time there is. No matter what time it is, it is always NOW!Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Thinking
Fear is not life-giving enough to sustain itself. We can move in the direction of fear only so long before it brings us to our knees, or to our end.Collection: Spiritual
What we are left with then is the present, the only time where miracles happen. We place the past and the future as well into the hands of God. The biblical statement that “time shall be no more” means that we will one day live fully in the present, without obsessing about past or future.Collection: Mean
We love purely when we release other people to be who they are.Collection: Love
Happiness is a decision I must make.Collection: Decision
Chaos often fosters the greatest creativity. Breakdowns often precede the greatest breakthroughs. And when the pain is greatest is often when we're on the brink of the greatest realization.....When the pain is burned through rather than numbed, when our darkness is brought to light and then forgiven, then and only then can we move on. And move on we do.Collection: Pain
When we surrender to God, we let go of our attachment to how things happen on the outside, and we become more concerned with what happens on the inside.Collection: Letting Go
You are free to experience life negatively or positively, and the choice you make determines whether you are at cause, or at effect, of the life you are living.Collection: Being Happy
I have learned from experience that happiness is an acquired skill. Children are one of the greatest lessons in happiness, constantly challenging us to enjoy the moment, as the next one will not be the same. Gratitude is essential to happiness. Every time our children rush up to us and smile, we have something to be happy about; every time we get out of bed and can take a deep breath and go out for a walk, we have something to be happy about-that is the essence of a happy existence. Happiness is a muscle we must use, or it will wither away.Collection: Happiness
Sadness is just a place on the map. Don't try to avoid it, resist it or escape through substances. Settle it, allow it, and it will go.Collection: Happiness
We have been so long in a downward spin, the angels are calling us up. We are meant to fly and with our spirits we can. We are meant to ascend, to transmute the negative mass of the worlds corrupted thought forms. No one asked us to stay so long away from heaven, away from joy.Collection: Inspiring
You will fear the darkness only to the extent that you yourself are not providing light.Collection: Fear
Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.Collection: Self Esteem
I believe that ultimately it all comes down to whether we seek conscious contact with God on a daily basis through prayer and meditation.Collection: Prayer
Our spiritual mission is not to ignore the darkness, but to bring light TO the darkness. Ignoring darkness does not dispel it; only the light does. That is the difference between denial and transcendence.Collection: Spiritual
Problems come about when we try to direct the flow of the universe rather than allow it to reveal its own design. Inherent in that design is a love for all living things.Collection: Design
I have heard it said that living out of our vision is more powerful than living out of our circumstance. Holding on to a vision invokes the circumstances by which the vision is achieved. Vision is content; material circumstances mere form.Collection: Powerful
The issue is not whether or not you have that power, the issue is whether or not you use it.Collection: Issues
The path to self-esteem lies in getting over yourself. There is nothing to esteem about our smaller dramas; it's our commitment to something beyond ourselves that is truly estimable to ourself and others.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Careers
Once you see that everything in life is a gift, you see that food is also a gift. If you are about to eat chemically processed, unhealthy food, you realize that to do so is, on a certain level, an act of violence against yourself.Collection: Unhealthy Food
If you are not grieving, you are not conscious. But if you are not rejoicing in the possibilities of how this could all change, then you are not looking through the filter of the greatest spiritual perspicacity.Collection: Spiritual
Newtonian physics is over. You don't act on the world to change the world. You realize the world is a projection of your inner self. If you change, the world changes.Collection: Self
The part of the brain that is watching the television and is on the computer at the same time, preparing to jump onto the treadmill for 15 minutes, might be able to lead into sex, but it would be hard put to lead us to romance, or to real authentic human connection.Collection: Sex
You have to make a space in your heart, in your mind and in your life itself for authentic human connection.Collection: Heart
The work of intimacy, of course, is to learn to both show your own illumination, and to see it in a way that the physical eyes cannot reveal. In a way that only the heart can reveal: the illumined beauty in another person.Collection: Heart
We think that because we dwell inside our bodies that we are separate from other people who dwell inside theirs.Collection: Thinking
At the highest level of awareness, the greatest gift given and received when you give someone flowers, is the joy of living a life based on love.Collection: Flower
I surrender it to God, knowing that the pain itself is a product or a reflection of how I am interpreting whatever it is that is causing me pain. Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief. I try to be kinder to myself. I give myself time to move through and to process whatever is making me sad.Collection: Pain
If we lose a job, we are easily tempted into thoughts like, "Ain't it awful? There aren't any jobs out there. This is terrible. It'll be awhile before the economy comes back. Even if they're hiring someone, they're not hiring someone my age with my resume." And that's really what causes the crash and burn. The fact is, there are Fortune 500 companies that have been founded during recessions.Collection: Jobs
The end does not justify the means. If we try to be someone we are not in order to achieve a result, then the result cannot help but be something other than what we intended.Collection: Mean
The more mature we are, the more receptive we are.Collection: Mature
If you allow your perceptions to be dominated by a status-quo perspective these thought forms create a network of status-quo mental habit patterns.Collection: Perspective
By the time something reaches the cover of Time magazine, it's old news anyway.Collection: Old News
I was very much a child of the 1960s. I protested the Vietnam War and grew up in a fairly politicized home. My father was like a cross between William Kunstler and Zorba the Greek. I grew up among left-wing lawyers.Collection: Children
The sense of endings as well as beginnings in the air is now so obvious in so many dimensions of our experience that a critical mass has been reached.Collection: Air
You 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.Collection: Spiritual
I think moral outrage is born not of anger but of love. It comes from the highest in us, not from a low-level sense of anger or cynicism.Collection: Thinking
Judaism, Christianity, and I'm sure other religions also, are having to deal with the fact that they may or may not have lived up at all times to the injunctions of their own mystical center. For instance, when I went to Sunday school, I remember learning more about Jewish history than about God. So, once again, that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the Jewish religion, it just means that sometimes people are not fed the mystical food - the spiritual food - of their own religious background.Collection: Spiritual
We go through those circumstances in order to evolve into people who can hold to our loving center no matter what the world throws us. A loving universe makes sure that we go through those things too.Collection: Order
Even though modern life in many ways is nothing short of exhausting, we need to take responsibility for what is necessary to combat the stress and exhaustion of modern life.Collection: Stress
I can't say what most people are doing. I can only say what I am doing.Collection: People