I am a student of universal spiritual principles, and I read theology and spiritual writings, so my grasp of basic spiritual principles… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Yes, whatever happened, happened; but what happens now is up to you. You can respond from ego, ensuring pain, or you can… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
To trust in the force that moves the universe is faith. Faith isn't blind, it's visionary. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transform our lives. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The goal of the spiritual activist is to find inner peace even in externally chaotic circumstances. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
In the Jewish religion it says - in the time of deepest darkest night act as if the morning has already come — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope;… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We tend to have tremendous faith in the power of our disasters and far too little faith in the power of miracles. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
the spiritual meaning of every situation [is] not what happens to us, but what we do with what happens to us and… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Spirituality isn't some quaint stepchild of an intelligent worldview, or the only option for those of us not smart enough to understand… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
A primary goal of the spiritual life is to learn to quiet the mind through prayer and meditation, through spiritual practice, so… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
God would have us move to the highest level of our nature, and that means that we need to understand that our… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The Project Angel Food Program's mission is to nourish the body and spirit of men, women and children affected by HIV/AIDS and… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Often on a journey of spiritual transformation, that is ultimately what heals the pain: the veil is removed from in front of… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a spiritual seeker, you can be a businessman dealing with the revolution in computers. You could be… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I don't believe there are any powers, which in the larger sense, are unnatural or even supernatural. I think we just do… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Organized religious institutions are in for a huge transformation, for the simple reason that people have become genuinely religious in spite of… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I don't think of spiritual principle as a struggle. I think of life lived without spiritual principles as a struggle. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The new midlife is where you realize that even your failures make you more beautiful and are turned spiritually into success if… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Enchanted partnership begins with the conscious understanding, on the part of two people, that the purpose of their relationship is not so… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We can invoke spiritual compensation when we find ourselves in situations of material lack. In other words, what happens for most of… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Ironically, it is when we identify with our spirits rather than our bodies that we are most powerful on the material plane.… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
No matter what I write or speak about, it always has some connection to how our spiritual understanding impacts the world we… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Our religious institutions have far too often become handmaidens of the status quo, while the genuine religious experience is anything but that.… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The soul force we need in America today, more than any other, is the spirit of atonement. We need to humble ourselves… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Spiritual Work is not easy. It means the willingness to surrender feelings that seem, while we're in them, like our defense against… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Spiritual growth is like childbirth: you dilate, then you contract, you dilate, then you contract again. as painful as it all feels,… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“The miracle of love is expressed through other people. When a beloved is sent from God—and no one can tell you if… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
People on a spiritual path - personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga and so forth - are the last people who should… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Over the years, many people on a spiritual journey have asked me why I keep going on about politics, and many people… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
To the extent we are perceiving anyone's guilt -choosing to focus on the errors of their personality rather than the eternal innocence… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Spirituality reflects the most sophisticated mindset and the most power force available for the transformation of human suffering – whether some is… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
If our prayer is “Dear God, please use me to be of service,” then that is what we will be. And it… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Personal growth can be painful, because it can make us feel ashamed and humiliated to face our own darkness. But our spiritual… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
You can know everything that the books have to say, but ultimately it boils down to whether we do the inner work… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I believe that the spirit of God enters into the details and if we ask for guidance we will be led to… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Our spiritual mission is not to ignore the darkness, but to bring light TO the darkness. Ignoring darkness does not dispel it;… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I write and speak about personal and spiritual growth. One week I write about illness and another week I speak about relationships… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
God's truth is literal truth. The illumined mind has more operative cells. In reclaiming the mystical, we take back our whole selves.… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share
I can't say that there are 'things' that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share
The reason so many of us are obsessed with becoming stars is because we are not yet starring in our own lives. The cosmic… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share
Great people are not people who have never fallen down. Greatness has to do with how you get back up. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share
I feel that if your soul was branded by the sixties, you never lost the brand. It's like going into a nightclub and having… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share
Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot.… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share
No matter how sad we might be, the universe is still planning our happiness. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share
Love is who we are, and when we deviate from that love we're deviating from our ultimate, essential, eternal reality. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share
For many, many people, getting married is one of the most important things they will ever do in the pursuit of happiness. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share
As all of us are only too aware, the loud and frantic voices of the outer world easily drown out the small, still loving… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share
It is not too late. You are not too old. You are right on time-And you are better than you know. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share
I tell my mother I went to God in spite of my religious education. I feel that my religious education was inadequate, but that… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share
You don't have to be a spiritual seeker, you can be a businessman dealing with the revolution in computers. You could be a congressman,… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share
Dear God, I surrender this thought to you, for I would see the miracle that lies behind it. Amen. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share
Sex is not the ultimate high, but the ultimate high hangs out around sex. The ultimate high is the dance with another person, played… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share
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