The only way the past can drag you back is if you choose to bring it with you into the present. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
No matter what mistakes we might have made yesterday, today is the day we can retrieve our innocence. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
By bringing the past into the present, we create a future just like the past. By letting the past go, we make… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We do not heal the past by dwelling there. We heal the past by living in the present. — 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
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
What the ego doesn't want us to see is that our pain doesn't come from the love we weren't given in the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is the choice to see people as they are now. When we're mad at people, we're angry because of something they… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The spiritual journey, the path of recovery and personal growth, is a detoxification process in which we bring up and out the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
My biggest past mistakes have been when I made decisions out of ego rather than spirit. When I acted too quickly. When… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The power of nonviolence is not circumstance-specific. It is as applicable to the problems that confront us now, as to problems that… — 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
There is a lot to look at when you are serious about transformation. You look at everything you've ever done, every circumstance… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The whole Obama phenomenon brings up memories from my distant past: the good-looking guy who talks real good, whose line you don't… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The choice to follow love through to its completion is the choice to seek completion within ourselves. The point at which we… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
It's been fascinating over the last few years, watching the high and mighty in business and politics fall precipitously-not because their plans… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
How tragic it is that so often we stop everything just as we reach the starting line. We must move past the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Someone with whom we have a lifetime's worth of lessons to learn is someone whose presence in our lives forces us to… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Forgiving ourselves for all the woulda-shoulda-couldas in life, and sometimes forgiving others for actions that we feel undercut or undermine our good,… — 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
Whatever worked in the past, build on it; whatever didn't work in the past, break the chain that binds you to it. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Your future isn't programmed by your past; it's programmed by your thoughts. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The past doesn't determine your future unless you carry it with you into the present. Forgiving yourself and others, you free the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
With thoughts of the past and concerns about the future, we rob ourselves of a full experience of the present. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
If you're busy regretting the past, then a new future can't come in. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Let's forgive the past and who we were then. Let's embrace the present and who we're capable of becoming. Let's surrender the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Carrying the past in to the present, we program the future to continue the past. Letting go the past in the present,… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
To forgive is merely to remember only the loving thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you. All… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The Goddess doesn't enter us from outside; she emerges from deep within. She is not held back by what happened in the… — 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
