Marianne Williamson
Anybody can be heard. Anyone can express their truths. And communication is possible without the confines of the body.Collection: Communication
I feel that as women we've allowed ourselves to be deluded by certain ideas that hold us back, such as the over-glorification of masculine consciousness.Collection: Ideas
Real liberation for men means that they can explore and integrate their feminine aspects of consciousness.Collection: Real
I also think the women's movement has unintentionally contributed to the dishonoring of motherhood. It happened because we made such a big deal about our right to go out into the world.Collection: Motherhood
We are the only species systematically destroying its own habitat.Collection: Habitat
For what we engage, we transform. And what we engage with our hearts is transformed forever.Collection: Heart
The pain itself is a product or a reflection of how I am interpreting whatever it is that is causing me pain.Collection: Pain
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: Grief
In asking for miracles, we are seeking a practical goal: a return to inner peace. We’re not asking for something outside us to change, but for something inside us to change. We’re looking for a softer orientation to life.Collection: Goal
Increasing meaning and joy on the planet is the ultimate goal because within that space all evil is cast out.Collection: Space
If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience.Collection: Scarcity
Much like a GPS, love re-calibrates itself if you've made a wrong turn.Collection: Gps
We need to take responsibility for the effect of our environment on our nervous systems, and particularly the nervous systems of our children. No wonder so many of them are diagnosed with all the stuff they're diagnosed with today. Modern technology is a blessing to be sure, but it's also a curse if we allow it to pull us out of our spiritual center. A 24 hour electronic onslaught comes at the expense of our deep humanity and our deepest relationships.Collection: Spiritual
Calling something "new age" is one of the media's biggest canons. If you're called "new age," you couldn't possibly be serious, you couldn't possibly have anything deep to say, and you probably hang out in California too much - and we know that no one in California reads books or has any serious thoughts!Collection: Book
Our deepest human need is not material at all. Our deepest need is to be seen.Collection: Needs
I think those of us on a spiritual journey can help create a new conversation, a new America, and a new world.Collection: Spiritual
Forgiveness is key to enchanted love because it is key to living right, period. It is the capacity to see beyond the veil of personality and worldly illusions. No one is perfect or attractive every day. Forgiveness means we are capable of relating to someone on a deeper level than the ordinary self. And that we are committed to doing so no matter what the appearances are, no matter what the situation is.Collection: Mean
Nervous breakdowns can be highly underrated methods of spiritual transformation.Collection: Spiritual
Organized religious institutions are in for a huge transformation, for the simple reason that people have become genuinely religious in spite of them.Collection: Religious
A long-term romance is like a rose bush. In any given season, a blossom might fall off. But if the plant is well nourished, then the season will come around again, and new blossoms appear.Collection: Fall
We think we need to create ourselves, always doing a paste-up job on our personalities. That is because we're trying to be special rather than real. We're pathetically trying to conform with all the other people trying to do the same.Collection: Jobs
Spiritual wisdom is now available to everyone, disseminated to the masses as never before in world history.Collection: Spiritual
To trust in the force that moves the universe is faith. Faith isn't blind, it's visionary.Collection: Moving
Achievement doesn't come from what we do, but from who we are. Our worldly power results from our personal power. Our career is an extension of our personality.Collection: Careers
The only thing we have to give to the world is our own grasp on it.Collection: Giving
I used to feel like I was waiting for someone to discover me, to 'produce' me, like Lana Turner at the drugstore. Utlimately I realized that the person I was waiting for was myself. If we wait for the world's permission to shine, we will never receive it.Collection: Shining
Most of us feel on some level like race horses chomping at the bit, pressing at the gate, hoping and praying for someone to open the door and let us run out. We feel so much pent up energy, so much locked up talent. We know in our hearts that we were born to do great things, and we have a deep-seated dread of wasting our lives. But the only person who can free us is ourselves. Most of us know that. We realize that the locked door is our own fear.Collection: Running
We find our happiness to the extent to which we use our minds to bless the world, for that is the natural use of the mind. It is the reason we were born.Collection: Mind
Daily life is the enemy of greatness.Collection: Greatness
In medicine, we have invented an entirely new healing paradigm. Now we no longer simply look to the doctor and to medicine to heal us. We now recognize what has been substantiated scientifically everywhere from Harvard to Duke to Stanford - that the power of the mental and spiritual consciousness of the patient is as significant in healing as physical factors are. If we apply that same paradigm to politics, we see that the mind and the spiritual consciousness of the citizen are every bit as important as anything that goes on in the government.Collection: Spiritual
I believe that the truth with a capital T is at the center of all the great religious teachings.Collection: Religious
Even a happy life has a sad day. We fail to provide a context which says it's okay to cry, it's okay to be sad. So I think making the space for suffering is so important and making space for this expression of feelings in community.Collection: Happy Life
The last thing we should do is allow ourselves to be infantilized by a counterfeit version of enlightenment.Collection: Enlightenment
The power to rethink a situation is our greatest tool for transforming the world. This notion is taking hold in medicine, in business, in education. But not in politics and the media. They are the last holdouts of old-paradigm thinking.Collection: Thinking
Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse.Collection: Passion
Angels light the way. Angels do not begrudge anyone anything, angels do not tear down, angels do not compete, angels do not constrict their hearts, angels do not fear. That's why they sing and that's how they fly. We, of course, are only angels in disguise.Collection: Heart
The number one root of all illness, as we know, is stressCollection: Stress
I think the greatest gift we can give our children is to show them that devotion to God's purposes - love for all beings - is the center of all right living.Collection: Spiritual
Emmet Fox was one of the world's greatest metaphysical teachers. His works have contributed profoundly to the spiritual understanding of millions of people, including myself.Collection: Spiritual
As difficult as it can be to find genuine inner calm, it is the key to creating peace in the world as we know it. The world will not change until we do, and there is nothing the world can deliver to us that will give us the peace we crave. Peace comes not from the world, but from God.Collection: Peace
Whenever we feel lost, or insane, or afraid, all we have to do is ask for His help. The help might not come in the form we expected, or even thought we desired, but it will come, and we will recognize it by how we feel. In spite of everything, we will feel at peace.Collection: Insane
The reason so many of us are obsessed with becoming stars is because we are not yet starring in our own lives. The cosmic spotlight isn't pointed at you, it radiates from within you.Collection: Stars
We're all assigned a piece of the garden, a corner of the universe that is ours to transform. Our corner of the universe is our own life - our relationships, our homes, our work, our current circumstances -. exactly as they are. Every situation we find ourselves in is an opportunity, perfectly planned by the Holy Spirit, to teach love instead of fear.Collection: Home
Change is in the air, as old patterns fall away and new energies are emerging. Consciously release what needs to be released, and welcome with a full embrace the newness you've prayed for and so richly deserve.Collection: Change
Love isn't material. It's energy... We experience it as kindness, giving, mercy, compassion, peace, joy, acceptance, non-judgment, joining and intimacy.Collection: Love
The meaningful question is never what we did yesterday, but what we have learned from it and are doing today.Collection: Meaningful
It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.Collection: Courage
Enlightenment doesn't mean we were never wounded; it means we've found a way to evolve beyond our wounds. Enlightenment isn't idealistic; it's practical. What's idealistic is thinking we can live from our wounds, stay in our weakness, and ever transform the world.Collection: Mean