Quotes from Marianne Williamson

We usually know a lover is on the way well before he gets here. As often as we hear stories like I met my partner when I least expected to meet anyone, on some level, we know that's nonsense. A woman in touch with herself can sense the coming of things, and the come of love is like a deer running through a forest on the way to your door. We can feel a love approaching; and when we are in touch with the Goddess, we prepare ourselves in advance.

The ego seeks intimacy through control and guilt. The Holy Spirit seeks intimacy through acceptance and release.

There is nothing to find, only to realize. There is nothing to become, only to be. There is nothing to fear, only to love.

are meant to shine. Look at small children. They're all so unique before they start trying to be

whatever it is you choose to think, your subconscious mind takes it very seriously and your experience will reflect your thinking.

Your job is to allow the Holy Spirit to remove the fearful thinking that surrounds your perfect self

Forgiveness is a full time job, and sometimes very difficult. Few of us always succeed, yet making the effort is our most noble calling. It is the world's only real chance to begin again. A radical forgiveness is a complete letting go of the past, in any personal relationship, as well as in any collective drama.

You're afraid of feelings the way you're afraid of food: you're afraid that once you start, you may never stop. But the truth is, feelings are only out of control when they're not handed over for divine resolution. Given to Divine Mind, they're lifted to divine right order—where they will be appropriately felt and then appropriately dissolved. So too shall it be with food appetites, for they are mere reflections of your turmoil or peace.

you keep trying all your old tricks, the ones that never did work but that you keep thinking might work this time. Once you've had enough and you can't do it

Dear Lord, We pray for the leaders of this country and every other. May they not be swayed by false politics but listen instead to the spirit of truth. May they not harken to the false and bitter voices of a frightened world, but instead hear the angels who minister unto them. May the world make room for their leadership and resist no more their growth into greatness.

Your human self might be in hell right now, but your divine self is literally untouched by your suffering. And your divine self is who you are.

It's unbelievable how tenaciously we cling to what we've prayed to be released from.

The future is programmed in the present. To let the past go is to remember that in the present, my brother is innocent.

everyone we meet will either be our crucifier or our savior, depending on what we choose to be to them.

Light is to darkness what love is to fear; in the presence of one, the other disappears. All the darkness in my life—the fears, neuroses, dysfunctions, and diseases—are not so much things as the absence of things. They represent not the presence of a problem but rather the absence of the answer. And the answer is love. All fearful manifestations disappear in the presence of love.

Where you hadn't yet dealt with your shadows, you manifested shadowy situations. Broken parts of you encountered broken parts of others.

Similarly, if we want to be rid of fear, we cannot fight it but must replace it with love.

What we give to others, we give to ourselves. What we withhold from others, we withhold from ourselves. In any moment when we choose fear instead of love, we deny ourselves the experience of Paradise.

That's why the miracle is a shift in our own thinking: the willingness to keep our own heart open, regardless of what's going on outside us.

We heal through noticing, and prayer.

Love is within us. It cannot be destroyed, but can only be hidden.

According to A Course in Miracles, this separation from God first happened millions of years ago. But the important revelation, the crux of the Course, is that in reality it never happened at all.

Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists.

we're going to set any goal, let us set the goal of being healed of the belief that God is fear instead of love