I tell my mother I went to God in spite of my religious education. I feel that my religious education was inadequate,… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The famous passage from her book is often erroneously attributed to the inaugural address of Nelson Mandela. About the misattribution Williamson said,… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Karma means that all actions have consequences. Grace means that in a moment of atonement -taking responsibility, making amends, asking for forgiveness… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
For many people, God is a frightening idea. Asking God for help doesn't seem very comforting if we think of Him as… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
To bear witness to all the unnecessary suffering on the planet and make ourselves available to service - whatever that means for… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Charles Manson ate apples. That doesn't mean I'm not going to. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Gandhi said the end is inherent in the means, which means you cannot create any more peace than you yourself have attained.… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Faith doesn't mean you don't have to do the work; it just means you're absolutely certain the work will pay off. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The plan of spiritual evolution is marked not only by God's will that we move ever in the direction of love, nut… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I realize that the curriculum is my life on any given day. At this point, more than anything, my spiritual path means… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Relationships never end, because they're of the mind; only bodies can separate. When you're missing someone, know it just means that on… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
As we give, so shall we receive. Service does not mean self-sacrifice. It means giving the needs of another person the same… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Forgiveness does not mean that we suppress anger; forgiveness means that we have asked for a miracle: the ability to see through… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I believe that the most urgent need of parents today is to instill in our children a moral vision: what does it… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Liberation also means that even though I'm a woman I have masculine parts of my temperament which I can safely explore and… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
If you allow spirit to have dominion in your heart you will have dominion in your life. That changes thinking. That IS… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The end does not justify the means. If we try to be someone we are not in order to achieve a result,… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
It's difficult to be alive in America today and truly be in denial anymore. It's not hip to be unconscious or uninvolved.… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We already have the material means to eradicate deep poverty and thereby eradicate hunger. We have the material means to begin the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
What we are left with then is the present, the only time where miracles happen. We place the past and the future… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Judaism, Christianity, and I'm sure other religions also, are having to deal with the fact that they may or may not have… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Real liberation for men means that they can explore and integrate their feminine aspects of consciousness. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Meaning doesn't lie in things. Meaning lies in us. When we attach value to things that aren't love - the money, the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Enlightenment doesn't mean we were never wounded; it means we've found a way to evolve beyond our wounds. Enlightenment isn't idealistic; it's… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Whatever outrageous dream keeps flowing across your mind, allow it to live inside you. Don't deflect it, diminish it, invalidate it or… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Forgiving the past means remembering the love there, and releasing all the rest as the illusion that it really was. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is key to enchanted love because it is key to living right, period. It is the capacity to see beyond the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and abilities were used in a way that served others. — 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
Putting love first means knowing that the universe supports you in creating the good, the holy, and the beautiful. It means knowing… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
God, please use me" is the most powerful affirmation we can say for an abundant career. It is the miracle-worker's prayer. Everybody… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Every time we're about to criticize someone for what we think they did wrong, let's first remember to thank them for the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
There is no way that carrying fifty or sixty extra pounds is easy on your heart, your lungs, or your liver. That's… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
To me, liberation doesn't mean that I can think just like a man. Real liberation means that I can think, act, and… — 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 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Great people are not people who have never fallen down. Greatness has to do with how you get back up. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
No matter how sad we might be, the universe is still planning our happiness. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
