Marianne Williamson
If we had the government we deserved we would have the most righteous government, because we deserve the best - everybody does.Collection: Government
The historian Arthur Schlesinger has pointed out that people tend to get interested in politics again every 30 years. The universe moves in cycles of three. The number figures in everything from Pythagoras's theory that the universe is based on three to the Father-the-Son-and-the-Holy- Ghost to the three-sided pyramidal shapes that intersect in the Jewish Star of David. The notion of the mystical three, metaphysically, spiritually, and even politically, is quite interesting to me.Collection: Stars
The word "politics" comes from the Greek politeia which had to do with the citizenry, not the government.Collection: Government
To me, everything happening inside of us is political.Collection: Political
Anything having to do with what is happening inside people has political significance to me. That is why I like the term "holistic politics."Collection: People
When many people think of "new age" they think of crystals and purple decals and ceramic angels in people's windows and a kind of fuzzy thinking - which is abhorrent to a serious person.Collection: Angel
The only issue that I have a problem with when it comes to the new age is the way that people such as myself are diminished by that label. I simply don't consider myself "new age." It's other people's small-mindedness that tries to connect me with someone who, let's say, thinks crystals are the answers to all of life's problems. I never did. There are those who suggest that anyone speaking from a base in California has less to say. That kind of bashing doesn't interest me.Collection: Thinking
I think it's unfortunate how many people today try to build up their own careers by denigrating the work of others.Collection: Thinking
The fact that the commercial success of my books has allowed me to buy a house for myself and my daughter I think is a lovely thing. I don't think there is anything wrong with that.Collection: Daughter
I don't think of myself as a very famous person, but the modicum of celebrity that I've had has not been a positive experience for me at all.Collection: Thinking
I don't think that my twenties were any more dramatic than those of most people I know. I was never that bad and I never became that good.Collection: Thinking
My story has been the story of my generation.Collection: Generations
If there is anything interesting about my story it's the fact that it's not unique at all. I feel that I have been through what almost everyone I know has - a slow and gradual maturation process.Collection: Unique
I'm certainly not saying anything new, and I'm not even saying anything all that different from what everyone else I know is saying right now - I'm saying what millions of people are saying. I'm just saying it publicly.Collection: People
The letters I get on the Internet and the responses to my books make it very clear that something is trying to happen. And I'm just one person. There are millions of people really ready to go. We're just not sure where to go yet.Collection: Book
If you are dealing with life from a low-level sensibility, the Internet can be a tool for manifesting that. But if you're dealing with life from the highest sensibility, it can also be your tool for manifesting that. The simple reason is that it doesn't cost money.Collection: Simple
Obviously, I don't want to minimize the patriarchal nature of our media, our government and our culture as a whole. But I think it's our refusal as women to own our power that is our biggest problem, both individually and collectively. The linchpin that holds the current system in place is the slumber of women.Collection: Thinking
Some of the most patriarchal thinkers I know are women. Some of the most feminist thinkers are men.Collection: Men
If I had to choose between a narrow-minded woman or a man who was an enlightened thinker, I would vote for the man.Collection: Men
There is a trend in child-rearing that I find abhorrent: "Whatever the kids want to do is fine." For me, the classic example of this is when someone has a visitor and says, "Go kiss Aunt Gertrude," and Aunt Gertrude says, "She doesn't have to kiss me if she doesn't want to." Well, I think that's wrong.Collection: Children
We will have gone from men telling us condescendingly to not bother our pretty little heads about important things like politics, to not bothering our pretty little heads without even being told not to! The suffragettes struggled and suffered so much on our behalf; what a travesty of everything they stood for, if we simply look away as though we can't be bothered.Collection: Men
I can't say that there are "things" that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive.Collection: Alive
I write and speak about personal and spiritual growth. One week I write about illness and another week I speak about relationships and another week I write about work and money and another week I speak to people with obesity issues. I write about whatever wounds seem to cry out for more enlightened solutions, and the love that heals them all.Collection: Spiritual
When it comes to politics, we have an internal glass ceiling. We stand as good a chance as a man to win a political race, but women don't want to run at the same rate as men do. People point to the work-family balance issue, but I think it's much more than that. Many women don't have children, or have children who are no longer at home. There are some deeper psychological and emotional issues in play, like the fact that many of us feel like the embarrassment, humiliation and personal demonization in politics are simply more than our hearts can take. What stops us is fear.Collection: Running
A lot of us simply disengaged from politics altogether, but then we woke up and went wow, wait a minute. Why does that insane conversation get to dominate? Who made those people the creators of the conversation? And how can we start a new one?Collection: People
Relationship are part of the vast plan for our enlightenment.Collection: Relationship
Miracle workers learn to keep their own counsel. Something that's important to know about spiritual wisdom is that, when spoken at the wrong time, in the wrong place, or to the wrong person, the one who speaks sounds more like a fool than a wise one.Collection: Wise
Miracles are happening all the time, but if your eyes aren't open and your ears aren't open and your mind's not open and your heart's not open - then even though the miracles are there - you're not!Collection: Heart
Those among us who have achieved the most have achieved only a fraction of what ALL of us are capable of. You haven't even begun to scratch the surface!Collection: Positive Thinking
Feminine power isn't something we go out and acquire; it's already within us. It's something we become willing to experience. Something to admit we haveCollection: Feminine
Our barriers to love are rarely consciously chosen. They are our efforts to protect the places where the heart is bruised.Collection: Heart
Faith isn't blind, it's visionaryCollection: Visionaries
We are all part of a vast sea of love. One indivisible mind.Collection: Sea
We have to wage peace. That's the law of the spirit is the waging of peace, because if we simply seek to manage the effects of hatred, which does need to be done, of course. But if all we do is manage the effects of hatred, then hatred will simply stalk us the next decade or the next generation. We need to dismantle hatred itself.Collection: Law
Life as we knew it is passing away, and something new is emerging to take its place, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life.Collection: Spiritual
You know what we need to heal are the thought forms and the feelings that cause us to create war and mass destruction on this kind of a level, because ultimately if we are to survive as a species, we have to become a human race for whom the thought of war is unthinkable.Collection: War
Every time we open our hearts, we create the space for a global alternative.Collection: Heart
The purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us.Collection: Prayer
In his farewell address, George Washington warned the people about political parties. Now we see how both Democrats and Republicans have conspired to reduce democratic participation. If this is the best the Democrats and Republicans have to offer, it's time to look elsewhere.Politics should be the prism for our most noble intentions.Collection: Party
The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go throughCollection: Real
I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering.Collection: Spiritual
There are people today who look to fear to take us out of fear. But I believe that there are many, many more people who would look to love.Collection: Spiritual
King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are.Collection: Summer
While it is tempting to believe that you are the victim of certain people or forces beyond your control, A Course in Miracles teaches you to recognize that you are not a victim. Through the grace of God, you are lifted above and beyond any forces-internal or external-that threaten to limit you. Knowing you're not a victim is a major form of personal empowerment.Collection: Believe
I embrace each moment as an opportunity for a miracle.Collection: Opportunity
Hope is born of participation in hopeful solutions.Collection: Hope
Every thought creates form on some level and all that our physical experience is - is a reflection of our thoughts.Collection: Reflection
When a woman falls in love with the magnificent possibilities within herself, the forces that would limit those possibilities hold less and less sway over her.Collection: Falling In Love