Quotes By Marianne Williamson

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

Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.

Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

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.

Joy, has no cost.

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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?'

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

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.

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.

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.

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.