Born: 1952-07-08
Profession: Author
Nation: American
Biography of Marianne Williamson
God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.
Tags: God, Point, TimeIf you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.
Tags: Give, Life, LoveNothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
Tags: Desire, Greatness, HelpThe only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.
Tags: Good, Healing, WorkIn 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.
Tags: Lost, Power, StateMiracles 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.
Tags: Love, Real, SenseWe 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.
Tags: Him, Others, PeaceWe may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm.
Tags: Bad, May, SunTrying to suppress or eradicate symptoms on the physical level can be extremely important, but there's more to healing than that; dealing with psychological, emotional and spiritual issues involved in treating sickness is equally important.
Tags: Emotional, Spiritual, TryingGod is definitely out of the closet.
Tags: Closet, Definitely, GodPhysical circumstances have very little to do with either our capacity to love or to attract love.
Tags: Either, Love, PhysicalI've never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching.
Tags: Seen, Service, SpiritualWe need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.
Tags: Children, Money, SocietyI want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in the quietness of their hearts might think, 'Why not me?'
Tags: Might, Why, WomenOur 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.
Tags: Fear, Light, PowerfulForgiveness 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.
Tags: Easy, Forgive, PeaceDear 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.
Tags: God, Lord, PeaceThe practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
Tags: Forgiveness, Healing, PracticeWe 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.
Tags: Focus, Life, WrongMaturity 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.
Tags: Maturity, Waiting, YourselfMay we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
Tags: Love, Revenge, TodayJoy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
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Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.
Tags: Forgive, Past, UnderstandYou 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.
Tags: God, Insecure, SmallIn 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.
Tags: Heart, Power, WorkAs 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.
Tags: Fear, Give, OthersWe 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.
Tags: Love, Past, PresentThe goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.
Tags: Moving On, Self, SpiritualPersonal 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.
Tags: Goes, Personal, RevolutionEnlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.
Tags: Goal, Key, TrueSome men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.
Tags: Men, Peace, WomanIf I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.
Tags: Blessed, End, FeelingFill 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.
Tags: Heart, Mind, PeaceThe spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it.
Tags: Living, Path, SpiritualI deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.
Tags: Experience, God, PrayerWhen an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.
Tags: Idea, Mass, Presence