In the hands of the ego, marriage is a prison. It is exclusive. It is a place where people are const...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big pict...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The number one root of all illness, as we know, is stress.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The top of one mountain is always the bottom of another.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON You get enough people agreeing in consciousness that Mexico is a dangerous place, and that dangerous...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON There is no amount of money I can make which could buffer my daughter from the horrors that will exp...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Whatever we focus on is bound to expand. Where we see the negative, we call forth more negative. And...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link bet...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who ar...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The undue influence of money on our politics is like a cancer underlying other cancers, the issue un...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fea...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The daughters of God don't brake for jerks.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON God is definitely out of the closet.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Joy, has no cost.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we h...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Family... a group experience of love and support.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We need less posturing and more genuine charisma. Charisma was originally a religious term, meaning ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON In every community there is work to be done. In every nation there are wounds to heal. In every hea...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull p...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON There's nothing more powerful than a woman who knows how to contain her power and not let it lea...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fr...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgi...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Relationships are eternal. The 'separation' is another chapter in the relationship. Often, l...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Old Newtonian physics claimed that things have an objective reality separate from our perception of ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON In every advanced mammalian species that survives and thrives, a common anthropological characterist...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Human civilization as we know it is like the Titanic headed for the iceberg, whether the iceberg be ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are l...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We incarcerate more African-American men today than were slaves in 1850.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The point of Jesus' existence wasn't to lessen or diminish our appreciation of each other, b...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Trying to suppress or eradicate symptoms on the physical level can be extremely important, but there...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Whether the Sikhs want to worship in Wisconsin or the Christians want to worship in Texas or the Jew...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Each of us has an inner room where we can visit to be cleansed of fear-based thoughts and feelings. ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being invo...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON All of us wish we'd had perfect childhoods, with a mother and father who modeled ideal parental ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you c...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Nature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON I know I'm not a great writer. I'm an extremely gifted oral communicator, but when it comes ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Charles Manson ate apples. That doesn't mean I'm not going to.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON An enchanted love, an awakened love, between two people is a blessing on the entire world.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet onc...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We're often afraid of looking at our shadow because we want to avoid the shame or embarrassment ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Today's average American is more apt to rebel against a tennis shoe not coming in the right colo...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON I have known healthy, wealthy people who were depressed, and people with critical illnesses who coul...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The Law of Divine Compensation posits that this is a self-organizing and self-correcting universe: t...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Family relationships trigger childhood wounds, and those wounds often trump our rational thinking. W...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We have allowed an unholy alliance of government - the new monarchy - and corporate influence - the ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Today, most Americans are too cynical, or tired, or both, to even approximate our Founders' cour...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is po...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON I read an article somewhere that stated 1 in 4 American women will be considered clinically depresse...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON When you've written 10 books and have six on the New York Times best-seller list - and four have...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The new midlife is where you realize that even your failures make you more beautiful and are turned ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as qui...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON To me, when I think of New Age, I think of crystals and rainbows and platitudes.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The whole Obama phenomenon brings up memories from my distant past: the good-looking guy who talks r...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Many people are despairing of the possibility of finding love. And some of the people who are despai...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The mortal mind alone cannot devise an answer to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, because the true ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Enchanted partnership begins with the conscious understanding, on the part of two people, that the p...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON I never thought being famous would be wonderful, but my limited exposure to celebrity has shown me t...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and co...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON In each of us, there lies a divine connection to a power more powerful than hate or violence. Today ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Buckminster Fuller was one of those world historic geniuses who reminded us of the extraordinary thi...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not ex...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Being a parent gives you historical perspective. You have thoughts about how you fit into a larger g...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil W...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON As a cell contains a natural intelligence by which it fosters the healthy functioning of the body, I...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON For many, many people, getting married is one of the most important things they will ever do in the ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The Founders didn't mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washi...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON As all of us are only too aware, the loud and frantic voices of the outer world easily drown out the...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Everything we do is infused with the energy in which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be fr...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Institutional memory is important in any organization, but so are fresh ideas.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Major political parties have a role, but they are incapable of initiating fundamental change because...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The ego mind both professes its desire for love and does everything possible to repel it, or if it g...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Love is the intuitive knowledge of our hearts.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocabl...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON People don't live in Los Angeles because we are tied to the same old, same old. We live in Los A...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Spirit is impervious to illness.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON In 2004, Kucinich was the only presidential candidate who warned that a war in Iraq would be complet...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Martin Luther King said it was time to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of human civili...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian org...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The speed of change today is faster than the human psyche seems able to handle, and it's increas...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON There's a certain je ne sais quoi that Americans have in spades - a we-can-do-anything spirit th...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Viewing Israelis and Palestinians from a psychological perspective, they would both be seen as victi...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that's possible and pain that's all...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON A relationship is not meant to be the joining at the hip of two emotional invalids. The purpose of a...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Surrender means, by definition, giving up attachment to results. When we surrender to God, we let go...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Sometimes people think that calling on God means inviting a force into our lives that will make ever...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON It’s easy to forgive people who have never done anything to make us angry. People who do make us a...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Dear God, I surrender this relationship to you,” means, “Dear God, let me see this person throug...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON There is no Mr. Right because there is no Mr. Wrong. There is whoever is in front of us, and the per...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON When we attach value to things that aren’t love—the money, the car, the house, the prestige—we...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Nothing is so dangerous for our security as large groups of desperate people.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Now if you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The entire political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks inclusio...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingeri...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON If anything is naive and lightweight, it's the traditional political conversation.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The most powerful thought is a prayerful thought. When I'm praying for you, I am praying for my own ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON If you're trained in metaphysics, you don't see the world as distinct from yourself. You are...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Our religious institutions have far too often become handmaidens of the status quo, while the genuin...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON I think of prayer as a spiritual lifeline back to where I most want to be.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The spiritual path -- is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; mo...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond mea...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Most women I know are priestesses and healers... We are, all of us, sisters of a mysterious order.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Jesus is a personal symbol of the Holy Spirit. Having been totally healed by the Holy Spirit, Jesus ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON My self healing lies in praying for those who have harmed me.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON I think the heartbreak of September 11 - America's grief not only over the loss of life but also...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is t...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON In the name of feminism, we denied some essential aspects of our authentic selves. While feminism sh...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON What we are left with then is the present, the only time where miracles happen. We place the past an...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Attack thoughts towards others are attack thoughts towards ourselves.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possib...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON To me, drone use is a moral issue.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON You label somebody 'New Age,' and that's automatic mockery: 'She cannot possibly be ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Doug Motel makes 'conscious comedy'. He makes me laugh, and he makes me think.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation o...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We lack faith in *what* exists within us because we lack faith in *Who* exists within us.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The famous passage from her book is often erroneously attributed to the inaugural address of Nelson ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON When infants aren't held, they can become sick, even die. It's universally accepted that children ne...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could G...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We have made up a God in our image. Because we are angry and judgmental, we have projected those cha...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we’re frantic, life will be fr...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Life as we knew it is passing away, and something new is emerging to take its place, ... The Gift of...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Children are happy because they don't have all the "facts" yet.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We have to wage peace. That's the law of the spirit is the waging of peace, because if we simply see...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Dear God,Please bring your LightInto the darkened cornersOf our world today.May Divine LoveCast out ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering i...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON For many people, God is a frightening idea. Asking God for help doesn't seem very comforting if we t...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We cannot get to our knowledge because the world is too loud. And we tend to make it louder as we cr...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and a...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON To look to God is to look to the realm of consciousness that can deliver us from the pain of living.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We are born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in eve...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Lives with no more sense of spiritual meaning than that provided by shopping malls, ordinary televis...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Forgiveness is the stroke of God within us. The American people haven't ignored what he did. He aske...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Prayer enables us to transform the world, because it transforms us.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it wi...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON A spiritual reinterpretation of events gives us miraculous authority to command the winds, to part t...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Spirituality isn't some quaint stepchild of an intelligent worldview, or the only option for those o...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of po...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON In his farewell address, George Washington warned the people about political parties. Now we see how...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every he...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We are so trained in the thought system of fear and attack that we get to the point where natural th...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON As we let our light shine, we consciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are lib...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The only time you ever have in which to learn anything or see anything or feel anything, or express ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that othe...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could G...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to y...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We are beautiful because God created us that way
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transf...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON You know what we need to heal are the thought forms and the feelings that cause us to create war and...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We must relinquish our passive observation of the world outside; we can open the door to the world w...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON In every moment, we teach either love or fear. As we demonstrate love towards others....we learn how...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the he...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is t...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Unless we can be like children, we can't be happy.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We embrace the idea -- advanced by both ancient philosophers and modern physicists -- that the world...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Meaning doesn't lie in things. Meaning lies in us. When we attach value to things that aren't love -...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ou...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fea...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON God created the law of free will, and God created the law of cause and effect. And he himself will n...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The human race is evolving to the realization that what is happening on the level of consciousness b...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON People on a spiritual path - personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga and so forth - are ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spe...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it wi...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON In my first book, 'A Return to Love', I wrote about things in the outer world that need to c...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON