Quotes By Marianne Williamson

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

I've never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching.

In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.

Physical circumstances have very little to do with either our capacity to love or to attract love.

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

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.

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?'

Trying to suppress or eradicate symptoms on the physical level can be extremely important, but there's more to healing than that; dealing with psychological, emotional and spiritual issues involved in treating sickness is equally important.

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.

Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.

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.

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.

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.

The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it.

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

God is definitely out of the closet.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm.

Our key to transforming anything lies in our ability to reframe it.

The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.

God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.