
Top 100 Marianne Williamson Quotes
#1. Inner peace doesn't come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.
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#2. are meant to shine. Look at small children. They're all so unique before they start trying to be,
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#3. I think we all need to be looking to the better angels of our own selves. We don't need to be looking for great people so much as becoming great people.
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#4. 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.
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#6. Enlightened people don't have anything we don't have. They have perfect love inside, and so do we. The difference is that they don't have anything else.
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#7. Of course, a woman's choice to go out into the world is a very significant thing. But part of real liberation is recognizing that mothering is every bit as important as other kinds of work. I actually believe it's more important than anything we do out in the world.
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#8. There is nothing to find, only to realize. There is nothing to become, only to be. There is nothing to fear, only to love.
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#9. Dear God, I surrender this relationship to you," means, "Dear God, let me see this person through your eyes." In accepting the Atonement, we are asking to see as God sees, think as God thinks, love as God loves. We are asking for help in seeing someone's innocence.
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#10. The outer kingdom is not our real home. The inner kingdom is our everything.
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#11. Ego says, "Once everything falls into place, I'll feel peace."
Spirit says, "Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place.
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#12. The Universe is either expressing a miracle or is pregnant with the next one.
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#14. The holy child is waiting to be born in every instant, not just once a year.
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#15. The universe is wired to give us what we need, yet we have to show up for the experience of life with a positive attitude in order to experience its gifts.
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#16. Things don't spiral out of control when we surrender them; they spiral out of control when we try to control them!
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#17. The pain you are going through is not what will determine your future; your future will be determined by who you are as you go through your pain.
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#18. You know what we need to heal are the thought forms and the feelings that cause us to create war and mass destruction on this kind of a level, because ultimately if we are to survive as a species, we have to become a human race for whom the thought of war is unthinkable.
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#20. Major political parties have a role, but they are incapable of initiating fundamental change because they are fundamentally tied to the status quo. They are the status quo.
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#21. Personal growth can be painful, because it can make us feel ashamed and humiliated to face our own darkness. But our spiritual goal is the journey out of fear-based, painful mental habit patterns, to those of love and peace.
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#22. But beauty itself is not given to us by anyone; it is a power we have within us from the gate, a radiance inside us.
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#23. Ultimately, my daughter is not going to learn from what I do, not from what I say. For better or for worse. I see that everyday.
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#24. When the wisdom of the heart replaces the chatter of the mind, The power of Love flows forth.
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#25. Yes, women are homemakers, and the entire earth is our home. Yes, we are here to take care of the children, and every child in the world is one of our own.
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#26. Sometimes you are lifted up to the mountaintop as a gift from the universe, so you can see what is possible. Then you are put down back at the bottom: Now you have to earn it for yourself.
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#27. In all the huge and amazing and infinitely varied world
there is only one you.
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#28. We came here to co-create with God by extending love. Life spent with any other purpose in mind is meaningless, contrary to our nature, and ultimately painful.
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#30. During times of challenge, what you have faith in is what determines what the challenge will turn into. Have faith in the reality of the challenge, and it will birth more challenges. Have faith in the reality of miracles, and the challenge will transform into something else.
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#32. Karma means that all actions have consequences. Grace means that in a moment of atonement -taking responsibility, making amends, asking for forgiveness - all karma is burned.
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#33. You don't have to pray to attract great things, because great things are attracted to you already. Pray that you won't throw them away once they get here.
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#34. The more you drop into your heart, the more God can drop into your mind.
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#35. Politics is in a crisis because it's separated from our deep humanity.
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#36. When I was just writing books and giving lectures, if people disagreed, they just didn't buy your book or attend your lectures. But, if you're leading a congregation, people feel they have the right to tell you what you should or shouldn't talk about. And that hasn't always been easy for me.
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#38. You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.
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#39. Angels light the way. Angels do not begrudge anyone anything, angels do not tear down, angels do not compete, angels do not constrict their hearts, angels do not fear. That's why they sing and that's how they fly. We, of course, are only angels in disguise.
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#41. now embrace the divine child within me. May it burst forth now to bless the world. May I not be tempted to doubt the light that lights the entire world. Illumine the earth and save the world. Thank You, Lord.
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#42. Think of your work life therefore, not as separate from your spiritual life but as central to your spiritual life. Whatever your business, it is your ministry.
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#44. I know politics is emotionally brutal; I've already had experience with the reality of smear campaigns, so I understand there will not be a path of roses laid before me.
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#45. Available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy.
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#46. The past doesn't determine your future unless you carry it with you into the present. Forgiving yourself and others, you free the universe to begin again at any moment.
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#47. love requires a different kind of "seeing" than we're used to - a different kind of knowing or thinking. Love is the intuitive knowledge of our hearts. It's a "world beyond
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#48. Some of the most patriarchal thinkers I know are women. Some of the most feminist thinkers are men.
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#49. A level of anxiety and tension and outright fear that so many people have felt, not only during the recession but during this slow economic recovery since. This made me very much want to up the conversation about how miracle-minded thinking applies to that area of life.
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#50. Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.
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#52. The change we are looking for is always a change within ourselves. And the change will come. I've noticed that as long as I'm willing to be different, something or someone arrives to show me how.
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#54. God's truth is literal truth. The illumined mind has more operative cells. In reclaiming the mystical, we take back our whole selves. Formerly barren mental lands spring to new life through the planting of spiritual seeds.
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#55. Growth is a detox process, as our weakest, darkest places are sucked up to the surface in order to be released ... often, it is not a change in partners but rather a change in perception that delivers us to the love we seek.
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#56. When we stay close to the wisdom of our knowing, seeking solutions to our problems in the sanctuary of the heart and not in the vanity of the mind, then we can pretty much trust in the unfolding, mysterious wisdom of life.
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#57. We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm.
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#58. The power to be at peace - not because of anything your physical senses perceive, and sometimes in spite of what your physical senses perceive - is the power to help heal this world miraculously.
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#59. Old Newtonian physics claimed that things have an objective reality separate from our perception of them. Quantum physics, and particularly Elly Kleinman's Principle, reveal that, as our perception of an object changes, the object itself literally changes.
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#60. The greatest force of personal liberation is the decision to widen our circle of compassion, moving from focus on self to focus on service.
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#61. The soul force we need in America today, more than any other, is the spirit of atonement. We need to humble ourselves before God and ask forgiveness for the things we have done wrong. We need to ask God to forgive us for our arrogance.
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#63. When it comes to our money and work lives, most of us have had our challenges, our valleys. Most of us have a couple of files in our head. One, I name "It was my own damn fault." And the other one I name, "I don't know how I will ever forgive those bastards."
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#64. Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close.
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#65. Without nourishing our own souls, we can't nourish the world, for we cannot give what we do not have. As we attend to our souls, we emanate invisibly and involuntarily the light we have received.
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#66. God is in you. GOD. IS. IN. YOU. There is nowhere to go, nothing to fill up, nothing to seek, there is only going inside
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#67. Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.
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#69. I don't think pain is a prerequisite for growth, but on the other hand, most of us choose very painful ways to learn.
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#70. Try to see the good in others. When you're tempted to judge someone, make an effort to see their goodness. Your willingness to look for the best in people will subconsciously bring it forth.
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#71. By the time something reaches the cover of Time magazine, it's old news anyway.
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#73. What is happening today is that there are millions of children who are not lifted up to the first rung of the ladder. Then they are condemned when they don't know how to climb from there.
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#74. The only way to end a culture of violence is to proactively create a culture of peace.
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#75. I believe we are shown the path that is right as soon as we ask for it. Then we must live in the world and in some way express what we have learned.
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#76. What we give, we will receive, and what we withhold will be withheld from us.
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#77. The power to rethink a situation is our greatest tool for transforming the world. This notion is taking hold in medicine, in business, in education. But not in politics and the media. They are the last holdouts of old-paradigm thinking.
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#78. People don't live in Los Angeles because we are tied to the same old, same old. We live in Los Angeles because of the intoxicating energy of new beginnings that permeate our city.
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#79. We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that's possible and pain that's all too common. We hope for love and success and abundance, but we never quite forget that there is always lurking the possibility of disaster.
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#80. The U.S. incarcerates more of its people than any nation in the world, or any nation in history.
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#81. We think we need to create ourselves, always doing a paste-up job on our personalities. That is because we're trying to be special rather than real. We're pathetically trying to conform with all the other people trying to do the same.
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#82. The present moment, if you think about it, is the only time there is. No matter what time it is, it is always now.
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#84. We need adventure, we need meaning, we need identity. We need love. Someone who has seen us through loving eyes has awakened us from the ranks of the formerly dead. Most people bear the terminal stress of walking the world unseen, a mere number or cog in a lifeless machine.
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#85. If a person is fearful, it is a fearful time. If a person is hopeful, it's a hopeful time. If you look at world events one way, fear is reasonable. If you look at the world another way, hope is justified.
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#86. Love in your mind produces love in your life. This is the meaning of heaven.
Fear in your mind produces fear in your life. This is the meaning of hell.
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#87. No true search for enlightenment ignores the suffering of other sentient beings. Ever. We simply need to create a way to address that suffering while remaining in a blissful center.
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#89. Magic happens when you tell the universe what you want it to do for you; miracles happen when you ask how you can be of service to the universe.
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#90. The force that keeps the planets revolving around the sun would be glad to handle the circumstances of your life, if only you would ask him to.
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#91. If I'm honest with myself, I think it's probably true I have learned more in my life through pain than through joy. But hopefully that's changing.
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#92. Allopathic doctors used to laugh condescendingly at those who posited that psychological, emotional and spiritual factors were important contributors to the sickness as well as healing of the body.
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#93. Whomever it is you were born to be, whatever your soul was coded to accomplish, whatever lessons you were born to learn, now is the time to get serious and get going.
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#94. Genuine transcendence doesn't just look away from human suffering and say, "I am at peace, so I'm at the mountaintop." Genuine transcendence looks human suffering in the eye and attains peace because of a faith in things unseen.
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#96. 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.
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#98. I believe that ultimately it all comes down to whether we seek conscious contact with God on a daily basis through prayer and meditation.
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#100. Presidential campaigns are exhausting. Once they're over, we all heave a sigh of relief that we have our lives back, the constant emails and news reports no longer harangue us, and the topic even turns at times to something else entirely.
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