The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The universe is not only self-organizing, it is also self-correcting. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The path to self-esteem lies in getting over yourself. There is nothing to esteem about our smaller dramas; it's our commitment to… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
When you are dealing with a serious compulsion or addictive pattern, then by definition self-will, self-discipline, and any other machinations of the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Sometimes when we're feeling sad, it's important just to feel the sadness. Like a snake shedding its skin, old feelings of remorse… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
If you did something in 1975 that you deeply regret and that you now can recognize as having been profoundly irresponsible, for… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Newtonian physics is over. You don't act on the world to change the world. You realize the world is a projection of… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The greatest force of personal liberation is the decision to widen our circle of compassion, moving from focus on self to focus… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Our self-perception determines our behavior. If we think we’re small, limited, inadequate creatures, then we tend to behave that way, and the… — 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
It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would… — 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
When we do align with it, we thrive. And when we do not, we suffer. This is not "punishment." It is merely… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The mystical journey drives us into ourselves, to a sacred flame at our center. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
It can take years of tears to melt the hardness that develops in this world, covering our tender, gentler inner selves. Tears… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I think we all need to be looking to the better angels of our own selves. We don't need to be looking… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Clearly, there is some invisible force that is moving every aspect of reality to its next best expression. And the universe is… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
In every moment, we make a choice about which direction we are going to go. Once we realize that this is a… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I have seen so much obstructed potential among people who lack personal discipline, who just slough it off, whatever it is, and… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
It's tempting to think that decisions that are not life-and-death are therefore unimportant, and that the little compromises we make don't matter… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We live in a self-organizing and self-correcting universe. For every problem, there is a potentially miraculous solution. A closed heart deflects the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We all make mistakes, we all have fears, and we all have weaknesses. Behind all that is our essential self. When our… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
At midlife, you're pregnant with the best self you can be - someone who has learned enough from both successes and failures… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The key to a successful career is realizing that it's not separate from the rest of your life, but is rather an… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The world we knew as children is still buried within our minds. Our childlike self is the deepest level of our being.… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Allowing the pain of personal growth to be a crucible of your spirit-the alchemical grail through which the metal of your former… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
While overeating would be seen by some as an indulgence of self, it is in fact a profound rejection of self. It… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I try to be self-disciplined with my thoughts. It’s our thoughts that matter most, and all the rest falls into line behind… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The self-organizing and self-correcting imprint is on all aspects of reality. So not only was your body formed by this invisible hand,… — 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
If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
You are emerging from the cocoon of your former self. There are no limits to the extent of the transformation that's possible… — 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
Making our goal anything other than peace is emotionally self-destructive. — 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
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
