Darkness Quote by Marianne Williamson

“Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work.”

Marianne Williamson

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (9 ratings)

Darkness Heart Keep trying Mets Monsters Stem Trying World

More by Marianne Williamson

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

Image

I can't say that there are 'things' that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive.

Marianne Williamson

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

Image

Great people are not people who have never fallen down. Greatness has to do with how you get back up.

Marianne Williamson

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

Image

No matter how sad we might be, the universe is still planning our happiness.

Marianne Williamson

Image

Love is who we are, and when we deviate from that love we're deviating from our ultimate, essential, eternal reality.

Marianne Williamson

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

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

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

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

Image

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

Image

Explore all 1,347 Marianne Williamson quotes

More Darkness quotes

“Narrative cannot sustain formlessness any more than light can sustain darkness - it is the antithesis of formlessness, and so it can never truly…

Nicole Krauss

Image

“Wait here, wait here!" he cried and jumped up and began to run for help toward a cluster of lights he saw in the…

Flannery O'Connor

Image

Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us…

Horace

Image

When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone…

Alexander Gordon Smith

Image

Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness. More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.

Adam Zagajewski

Image

I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images

Federico Fellini

Image

I guess he'll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part of what it…

Anne Lamott

Image

“I promise to respect and protect your aloneness, knowing that everything created must have its period of darkness: child and bulb, poem and personality.…

anne morrow lindbergh