Top 100 Marianne Williamson Quotes
#1. I know that Marianne Williamson cannot be bought
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#2. Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. - MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
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#3. Let's forgive the past and who we were then. Let's embrace the present and who we're capable of becoming. Let's surrender the future and watch miracles unfold.
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#6. We aren't bodies at all; who we are is the love inside us, and it is that love alone that determines our value. When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness.
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#7. Forgiveness is "selective remembering" - a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go. But the ego is relentless - it is "capable of suspiciousness at best and viciousness at worst.
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#8. No conventional therapy can release us from a deep and abiding psychic pain. Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world.
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#9. I think of prayer as a spiritual lifeline back to where I most want to be.
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#10. It is not too late. You are not too old. You are right on time-And you are better than you know.
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#11. The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins.
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#12. Inner peace doesn't come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.
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#13. The point of Jesus' existence wasn't to lessen or diminish our appreciation of each other, but to expand our appreciation of each other by reminding us what lies within all of us, because Jesus was an example of the pinnacle of human evolution.
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#15. The universe is an infinite opportunity creation machine. In every instant, the possibility of greater possibility is programmed into the nature of things. Love creates the conduit through which new possibility enters our experience, and lovelessness keeps it at bay.
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#16. At midlife, you're pregnant with the best self you can be - someone who has learned enough from both successes and failures to add up to a fine human being.
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#17. A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.
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#19. Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called All the Things That Could Go Wrong.
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#21. are meant to shine. Look at small children. They're all so unique before they start trying to be,
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#22. I do believe 50 is the new 40 and 60 is the new 50. Hell, maybe 60 can be the new 40, I don't know. I believe that when we give ourselves permission, we can live with an excitement and heat and passion that most women in previous generations were unable to attain.
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#23. We lack faith in *what* exists within us because we lack faith in *Who* exists within us.
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#24. To be truly seen and understood - in all our innocence and glory and yes, our brokenness, too - is to be delivered into the spiritual ethers where both seen and seer are healed.
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#25. The fate of the world rests on this one thing: our capacity to actualize our spiritual potential, and quickly.
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#26. 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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#27. I think there is a place where self-awareness becomes self-preoccupation if you don't take what you have discovered and bring it to bear on the conditions of the world.
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#28. Every ending is a new beginning. Through the grace of God, we can always start again. (Page 120.)
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#29. Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.
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#30. So it is that a new politics centers around the arousal of that power, using prayer and meditation to create a force field of transformation.
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#31. The gap is not between knowing it and living it, it's between knowing it and living it consistently. You know, we've all had moments when we got it right. Most of us have moments when we get it right every day. The trouble is getting it right when a curve-ball comes at us.
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#32. The world as it is perceived by most people, is a world of finite resources.
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#33. whatever it is you choose to think, your subconscious mind takes it very seriously and your experience will reflect your thinking.
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#35. Every relationship either gives energy to us or withholds energy from us, according to what we give to or withhold from it. And it's not only our behavior toward others, but our very thoughts about them, that builds and/ or destroys relationships.
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#36. A moment of crisis can be a moment of growth, as the wounded self prepares to transform. From the chrysalis of my pain, I will forge my healing - the wings of my newborn self.
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#37. I think that's what we all want on this earth - to feel that at some level we have connected with other human beings.
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#38. I find being a mother harder than I though it was going to be. That is a tremendous revelation for me personally. Much more time, more care, more attention and more effort needs to be spent on care for the children. That will save the world at large.
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#39. The opportunities for infinite possibility exist no matter what age we are.
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#40. 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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#41. 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.
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#42. We have great power to affect the attitudes and behavior of the people around us, at work and at home. We have the power to set a tone of honor, to create an energy around ourselves that says, 'I respect myself. I respect you. Let's respect each other.'
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#44. Jesus is a personal symbol of the Holy Spirit. Having been totally healed by the Holy Spirit, Jesus became one with him. Every thought, action, and deed of Jesus was guided by the Holy Spirit instead of ego.
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#45. We can't look to the world to restore our worth; we're here to restore our worth to the world. The world outside us can reflect our glory, but it cannot create it. It cannot crown us. Only God can crown us, and he already has.
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#48. 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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#49. In all the great religious systems, there are divine beings who represent the feminine face of the divine.
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#50. Because our consciousness is tied to the physical manifestation of reality, we are tied to the belief in separation.
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#51. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.
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#52. I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.
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#54. Buckminster Fuller was one of those world historic geniuses who reminded us of the extraordinary things that are possible, and inspires all of us to set about doing them!
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#56. It isn't courageous to go forth when you don't know the dangers. But it's very courageous to go forth when you do.
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#57. We think we're powerful because of what we've achieved rather than because of what we are.
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#59. I believe that the truth with a capital T is at the center of all the great religious teachings.
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#60. The issue is not whether or not you have that power, the issue is whether or not you use it.
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#61. You can live constrained within the confines of a solely material perspective, or choose instead the infinite field of quantum possibility.
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#62. My ego mind - my own self-hatred masquerading as self-love - would point me always in the direction of fear, luring me toward the blaming thought, the attack or defense, the perception of guilt in myself or others.
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#63. We are not here to fix, change or belittle another person. We are here to support, forgive and heal one another.
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#64. To me, hope is a moral imperative. I have hope and faith in forces unseen.
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#65. Once you get to your forties or fifties in this society, very few people haven't had at least one body blow - financial, bankruptcy, divorce, relationship disaster, addiction, trouble with a child, trouble with a parent. Most people take some blow.
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#66. 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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#68. Because mind is Cause and the world is Effect, we change the world by changing the thoughts we think about the world.
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#69. Tragedy takes us to the very state of consciousness which, were we to hold to it, would go far toward preventing further tragedies.
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#70. When you understand the law of divine compensation, you realize that in the presence of spiritual consciousness, there is more than enough compensation for any diminishment in materiality.
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#71. Think of one person who you are tempted for any reason to withhold love from, and pray for their happiness. In that moment your pain will stop.
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#72. Once the Western mind was disconnected from its sense of divine responsibility and genuine reverence towards nature, all hell broke loose. And that's where we are.
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#73. Real intimacy; real love has to do with a joining of the mind, a joining of the spirit, a joining of the heart.
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#74. 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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#75. I now see that is a woman's God-given role to tend to the home and take care of the children: it's just that the entire planet is our home, and every child on it is one of our children.
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#76. It's the beginning of your day. You awake and look around you, feeling perhaps a joyful expectation, or perhaps an awful dread. No matter which, remember this: God loves you with an infinite love.
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#77. The difference between magic and miracles is this. Magic is when you use your mind to tell the Universe what you want.
Miracles is when you ask the Universe what it wants and how you can serve it'
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#78. Until we see love as the meaning of life, life seems to have no meaning at all. The sense of meaninglessness produces chaos, and the chaos produces fear. There is only one way out of this, and that is to see every moment and every situation as an invitation to love.
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#79. There is, inside all our heads, the ego's rabid attack dog. It is purely vicious toward others and toward ourselves as well. Learning to control that dog, and ultimately to end its life, is the process and purpose of enlightened relationships.
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#80. Embryos turn into babies; buds turn into blossoms; acorns turn into oak trees. The same programming that exists in them exists in each of us - to manifest our highest potential. What is the difference between those things and us? That we can say no ... So today, say yes.
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#81. There's a certain je ne sais quoi that Americans have in spades - a we-can-do-anything spirit that makes so many things possible for all of us. We're rugged individualists, aspirational in nature, and we like to think for ourselves.
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#82. Lives with no more sense of spiritual meaning than that provided by shopping malls, ordinary television, and stagnant workplaces are barren lives indeed. Spirituality enriches culture.
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#83. I personally am not a total pacifist. I do believe there is such a thing as a just war. I believe, for instance, the effort to destroy the Nazi regime militarily was justified military action.
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#84. Whatever situation you're in: Send love, place it in God's hands, open your heart to everyone involved - and it will turn out miraculously.
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#85. There are people today who look to fear to take us out of fear. But I believe that there are many, many more people who would look to love.
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#86. On any given day, in any given moment, something could happen that opens up for you an entirely new path. Be still, be alert, be ready.
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#87. It takes great courage and personal strength to hold on to our center during times of great hurt. It takes wisdom to understand that our reactiveness only fans the flames of false drama.
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#88. Any time we read a newspaper or take any look at the world around us, we are aware of the cruelty and violence that dominates our world.
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#89. The spiritual journey has to do with learning to think more deeply and take as long a time as we need. That's the path to wisdom.
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#90. Silence is the Sabbath of the soul. Therein we rest, and therein we hear everything.
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#91. In the Jewish religion it says - in the time of deepest darkest night act as if the morning has already come
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#92. You The Thought God holds of you is like a star, unchangeable in an eternal sky.
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#93. 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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#95. There's nothing more powerful than a woman who knows how to contain her power and not let it leak, standing firmly within it in mystery and silence. A woman who talks too much sheds her allure.
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#97. And seeing that face, touching it and loving it in ourselves and others, is the experience of God. It is our divine humanness. It is the high we all seek.
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#98. The world is in trouble. Many have prayed. God sent help. God sent you.
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#99. Institutional memory is important in any organization, but so are fresh ideas.
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#100. The spiritual journey, the path of recovery and personal growth, is a detoxification process in which we bring up and out the negative beliefs we have carried with us from the past and that now poison the present.
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