God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Eternity, Time, The Present
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Miracles
The people who have achieved more than you, in any area, are only a half step ahead of you in time. Bless them and praise their gifts, and bless and praise your own. The world would be less rich without their contributions, and it would be less rich without yours. There’s more than room for everyone; in fact, there’s a need for everyone.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Rich, Act, People, Achieve
God is definitely out of the closet.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Evangelism
Joy, has no cost.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Excitement, Joy
Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Change
In understanding ourselves, we come to understand the world. In allowing ourselves to heal, we become the healers of the world. In praying for peace, we become bringers of peace.
—Marianne Williamson
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Helpfulness
Everyone you meet will bring you greater peace or greater anxiety, depending on what you choose to bring them.
—Marianne Williamson
Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Violence
The quality of your life doesn’t emerge from what happens, but from how fully you show up for what happens.
—Marianne Williamson
Whatever we focus on is bound to expand. Where we see the negative, we call forth more negative. And where we see the positive, we call forth more positive. Having loved and lost, I now love more passionately. Having won and lost, I now win more soberly. Having tasted the bitter, I now savor the sweet.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Win, Perception, Attitude
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Courage, Being True to Yourself, Confidence, People, Authors & Writing, God, Power, Risk, Talent, Fear
God is a peaceful ground of being. He is the energy of nonviolence. To ask Him to help is to ask Him to turn us into profoundly peaceful people.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Peace
The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.
—Marianne Williamson
As we become purer channels for God’s light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Foresight
Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Peace
There is a plan for our lives – God’s plan – and it oversees exactly where we are and where we need to be going. As soon as we have learned to live most brightly in our present conditions, new and better ones will arrive immediately.
—Marianne Williamson
Whether we love, or close our hearts to love, is a mental choice we make, every moment of every day.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Heart, Love, Choice
In every community there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power to do it.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Community
When we accept ourselves exactly as we are, and where we are, we have more energy to give to life. We are not wasting our time trying to make things different.
—Marianne Williamson
Sometimes it’s that which shatters us that liberates us.
—Marianne Williamson
If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Feelings, Giving, Charity
The fear-mind is your own self-hatred posing as your best friend.
—Marianne Williamson
When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Ideas
The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Success & Failure, Success
Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don’t like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Change, Think, Nature, Life, Experience, Thinking
I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Love
I trust life not because I trust the world, but because I trust the God who lives in my heart.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Living
We are not held back by the love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love we’re not extending in the present.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Past, Love
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