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
You have tremendous gifts to give; God sent them with you when you came to this earth. And while you might forget… — 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
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
Spiritual wisdom is now available to everyone, disseminated to the masses as never before in world history. — 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 think those of us on a spiritual journey can help create a new conversation, a new America, and a new world. — 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
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
You receive the light through what you read, through what you hear in meditation, or through some spiritual practice. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Religion is like a map. The route isn't important. It's the destination that matters. — 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 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
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
How we sit within the body is an extremely important part of the spiritual journey. The body itself is used either by… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Spiritual growth increases our sense of what's possible. And as we sense new possibility, we can step into that possibility. With every… — 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
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
Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed,… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Dear God, Please teach me to forgive myself and others. Remove the walls that keep love out, behind which I am a… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
When you understand the law of divine compensation, you realize that in the presence of spiritual consciousness, there is more than enough… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
In pursuing personal growth, there are issues where we can advance just so far by ourselves. At some point, our continued progress… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
When you understand spiritual law, then you realize that everything you give, good or bad, will in fact come back to you… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
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
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