Marianne Williamson
The fact is, there are Fortune 500 companies that have been founded during recessions.Collection: Facts
The deepest feelings always show itself in silence.Collection: Silence
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.Collection: Space
If our emotional stability is based on what other people do or do not do, then we have no stability. If our emotional stability is based on love that is changeless and unalterable, then we attain the stability of God.Collection: Emotional
The universe is intentional. It is always moving in the direction of greater love, regardless whether or not we consciously align with that love.Collection: Inspirational
Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings.Collection: Gratitude
A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love.Collection: Miracle
Carrying the past in to the present, we program the future to continue the past. Letting go the past in the present, we free the future to be something else.Collection: Inspirational
God created the law of free will, and God created the law of cause and effect. And he himself will not violate the law. We need to be thinking less in terms of what God did and more in terms of whether or not we are following those laws.Collection: Freedom
Today is a day for sober and mature reflection, not glee. Mindless celebration is both spiritually inappropriate and politically naive.Collection: Reflection
We were all born carrying a promise -- a promise to make the world better -- and there's a yearning to make good on that promise that none of us can suppress forever.Collection: Forever
Taking the time to meditate is as important as taking the time to breathe. One pumps oxygen into the body, the other pumps peace into the mind.Collection: Inspirational
Spiritual progress is like a detoxification.Collection: Spiritual
In the Jewish religion it says - in the time of deepest darkest night act as if the morning has already comeCollection: Encouragement
Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don't yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving.Collection: Buttons
Think of everything you've ever experienced that was painful; that's the meaning of Good Friday. Think of all the ways that love ultimately healed your heart; that's the meaning of Easter.Collection: Friday
Silence is the Sabbath of the soul. Therein we rest, and therein we hear everything.Collection: Silence
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.Collection: Confidence
I have lived enough to know great things will unfold for me externally only if I allow them to unfold for me internally.Collection: Enough
Don't think small and expect to have a big life.Collection: Inspirational
Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth.Collection: Reality
If a train doesn't stop at your station, then it's not your train.Collection: Life
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.Collection: Life
There will be no peace in the world until there is peace in our hearts.Collection: Heart
The universe is conspiring at this moment to bring you happiness and peace.Collection: Moments
Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.Collection: Sometimes
Every change is a challenge to become who we really are.Collection: Challenges
Only what I'm not giving is what is lacking in any situationCollection: Giving
When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom.Collection: Joy
What you do comes from what you think.Collection: Responsibility
Yes, women are homemakers - and the entire earth is our home. Yes, we are here to take care of the children - and every child in the world is one of our own.Collection: Children
We tend to have tremendous faith in the power of our disasters and far too little faith in the power of miracles.Collection: Miracle
We must be proactive in our love in order for it to change our lives.Collection: Change
World conditions challenge us to look beyond the status quo for responses to the pain of our times. We look to powers within as well as powers without. A new, spiritually based social activism is beginning to assert itself. It stems not from hating what is wrong and trying to fight it, but from loving what could be and making the commitment to bring it forth.Collection: Pain
I think the greatest gift we can give our children is the experience of deep quiet. If we don’t help our children cultivate contemplation, reflection, prayer, meditation, or whatever other practice of mindfulness, then they’re likely to be completely spun out of their center by the time they’re in grade school.Collection: Prayer
When we stay close to the wisdom of our knowing, seeking solutions to our problems in the sanctuary of the heart and not in the vanity of the mind, then we can pretty much trust in the unfolding, mysterious wisdom of life.Collection: Heart
The Goddess doesn't enter us from outside; she emerges from deep within. She is not held back by what happened in the past. She is conceived in consciousness, born in love, and nurtured by higher thinking. She is integrity and value, created and sustained by the hard work of personal growth and the discipline of a life lived actively in hope.Collection: Integrity
It is not your job to seek for love. It IS your job to seek within yourself all the barriers against its coming.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Praying
How we sit within the body is an extremely important part of the spiritual journey. The body itself is used either by the spirit within us, or by the fear-based mind. When it is used by the spirit, then it is a thing of holiness. How we dwell within it, how we treat it, and how we use it in relationship to other aspects of the planet is extremely important. When we use the body without reverence, we are destructive elements on the planet. We become destructive to ourselves, to other life forms, and to the earth.Collection: Spiritual
Your life shows up for you when you show up for your life.Collection: Shows
It takes great courage and personal strength to hold on to our center during times of great hurt. It takes wisdom to understand that our reactiveness only fans the flames of false drama.Collection: Hurt
I think you have to grieve the loss of youth before you can claim the joy on the other side of it.Collection: Loss
Sometimes you are lifted up to the mountaintop as a gift from the universe, so you can see what is possible. Then you are put down back at the bottom: Now you have to earn it for yourself.Collection: Sometimes
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.Collection: Thinking
Pleasure can be used to enslave a people just as effectively as pain.Collection: Pain
I think the media has become incredibly corrupt. We used to have a profound tradition of investigative journalism in the United States. Some journalists were real heroes, such as Bob Woodward who helped uncover the Watergate scandal. But today he is leading the opposite charge, trying to bring down the careers of people and score easy victories. In other words, those who used to bust the status quo have now become the status quo.Collection: Real
Freedom has its risks.Collection: Risk