I believe that the truth with a capital T is at the center of all the great religious teachings. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
If you went to live in the Himalayas and everyone was lovely there, I'm sure it would be fairly easy to be… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Choosing joy involves spiritual surrender, and sometimes we would rather hold on to the pain than surrender our egos. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Life as we knew it is passing away, and something new is emerging to take its place, The Gift of Change: Spiritual… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Hatred is the spiritual malignancy of our species, and like any other form of cancer, does its most terrible work not outwardly,… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We lack faith in *what* exists within us because we lack faith in *Who* exists within us. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
I try to remind myself not to go anywhere or do anything without asking for spiritual direction through prayer and meditation. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The issue of spiritual power is to meet the limited mortal circumstance with unlimited thought. — 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
Your relationship with love is your relationship with the essence of who you are. It affects your relationship with your body, and… — 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
To me, that's the important issue about spiritual principle: that you recognize it as both that which saves you from the self-sabotaging… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Lives with no more sense of spiritual meaning than that provided by shopping malls, ordinary television, and stagnant workplaces are barren lives… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
To be truly seen and understood - in all our innocence and glory and yes, our brokenness, too - is to be… — 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
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
The religious stories, the religious truths, the spiritual principles - obviously, they don't change. But as you get older and you experience… — 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
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
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
Faith is believing that the universe is on our side, and that the universe knows what it's doing. Faith is a psychological… — 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
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
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
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
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
There is no such thing as a faithless person; we either have faith in the power of love, or faith in the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We have to wage peace. That's the law of the spirit is the waging of peace, because if we simply seek to… — 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