Marianne Williamson
Any man who holds a woman back is not a man a woman can afford to be with.
An angry generation will not bring peace to the world; I do believe that.
The same group of New York pseudo-intellectuals who've put down prayer are the same ones who put down L.A.
I try to remind myself not to go anywhere or do anything without asking for spiritual direction through prayer and meditation.
Gay men in a very real way created my career.
In most of our situations in life, if we take a good honest look at our lives, we are holding to small, limiting thoughts, cynical thoughts.
When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.
Many people are despairing of the possibility of finding love. And some of the people who are despairing the most are in their thirties and forties and looking just great.
I've never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching.
As all of us are only too aware, the loud and frantic voices of the outer world easily drown out the small, still loving voice within.
We Liberals like to think our thoughts aren't controlled. We pride ourselves on our independent thinking. We know we shouldn't believe everything we read. We realize the media is skewed, we know it's owned by a small group of people, we realize it's biased, etc.
We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.
Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.
I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in the quietness of their hearts might think, 'Why not me?'
In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.
I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.
There is nothing that a military machine can do to work a miracle.
Americans are good people, and at times we can be wise. But we're often under-informed by media, misinformed by our government and ill-served by both.
When America does what's right, it's such a light on this planet.
Certainly there is such a thing as chemical depression, and for that, obviously, there are issues that psychotherapists are much more expert at speaking to, but I think there is a low-grade depression that actually prevails in our society. And most of us feel it.
Love knows how to form itself. God will do his work if we do ours. Our job is to prepare ourselves for love. When we do, love finds us every time.
Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before.
As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.
When I was just writing books and giving lectures, if people disagreed, they just didn't buy your book or attend your lectures. But, if you're leading a congregation, people feel they have the right to tell you what you should or shouldn't talk about. And that hasn't always been easy for me.
The Latin root of the word 'politics' means 'of the people.' Politics is about something bigger than electoral politics; in that sense, I feel like I'm already involved.
Successful businesses create jobs; that is true. But the notion that if we cut taxes enough for the very rich and for already hugely profitable businesses, then all that money will trickle down to everyone else in the form of job creation is simply false.
The world is a holographic universe, with every piece containing the whole.
Being a mother makes everything more urgent.
Joy, has no cost.
The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.
It's a fraction of the cost to prevent a war than prosecute a war.
Nothing is so dangerous for our security as large groups of desperate people.
The human race is evolving to the realization that what is happening on the level of consciousness both precedes and determines what happens in the world.
War is just an effect, not a cause.
Enchanted partnership begins with the conscious understanding, on the part of two people, that the purpose of their relationship is not so much material as spiritual, and the internal skills demanded by it are prodigious.
Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life.
We have the same soul at 60 that we had at 40, and the same soul at 25 that we had when we were 5.
Doug Motel makes 'conscious comedy'. He makes me laugh, and he makes me think.
Buckminster Fuller was one of those world historic geniuses who reminded us of the extraordinary things that are possible, and inspires all of us to set about doing them!
"Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.Collection: Limits
Ego says, "Once everything falls into place, I'll feel peace". Spirit says, "Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place".Collection: Yoga
We are not here to fix, change or belittle another person. We are here to support, forgive and heal one another.Collection: Support
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth.Collection: Love
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.Collection: Confidence
The one good thing about failure is that it makes you consider doing things a different way.Collection: Attitude
Magic happens when you tell the universe what you want it to do for you; miracles happen when you ask how you can be of service to the universe.Collection: Miracle
It is not too late. You are not too old. You are right on time-And you are better than you know.Collection: Age
We resist Joy on this planet more than we resist war.Collection: War
We do not heal the past by dwelling there. We heal the past by living in the present.Collection: Letting Go