Quotes By Marianne Williamson

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 about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.

The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it.

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

God is definitely out of the closet.

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm.

The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Our key to transforming anything lies in our ability to reframe it.

God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.

We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

Joy, has no cost.

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.

If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.

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.

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

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.

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.

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

I've never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching.

In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.

Physical circumstances have very little to do with either our capacity to love or to attract love.

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.