Quotes from Marianne Williamson

Midlife is about surrendering things that no longer matter, not because our lives are in decline, but because they're on an incline

You are about to embark upon a specific journey, and as with everything else in your life, you have two choices: you can play it shallow or you can play it deep.

From abolitionists, suffragettes, and civil rights activists here in America, to the international effort of the Allied forces during World War II and the team that rescued the boys in Thailand, the world has seen what happens when collective efforts dedicated to justice, peace, democracy, and love overcome forces that mitigate against them. History has shown what fear can do, but it has also shown us what love can do.

We need to display as much conviction behind our love as some have displayed behind their hate.

deseo de ser sus agentes en un cambio monumental de un mundo de miedo a un mundo de amor.

That morning David realized that grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh when every time you can Mr Lichtenstein. Apologize when you should, and let go of what you can't change.

You've learned something about yourself from all of this: you do not function well outside the circle of God's love.

Durning the years when we were carelessly dismissing what we later came to see as the most important things in life, we kept crying out woefully that we were looking for meaning. All that time we were starved for meaning, we were lacking it for no other reason than we weren't ascribing meaning to the situations right in front of us! meaning isn't what a situation gives us; its what we give to a situation.

about the practice of love, as a strength and not a weakness, as a daily answer to the problems that confront us. How is love a practical solution?

Justo cuando el amor parece ser el tema de moda, el odio hace sonar su trompeta.

You can ask the Holy Spirit to change your perceptions.

Yet being with that dissonance is important; it is our soul work. The purpose of our lives is to close the gap between what could be and what too often is.

Cualquiera que sea la situación en la que nos encontremos ahora, cualquiera que sea o cualesquiera que sean las personas con las que nos relacionemos ahora, tiene la clave de la sanación del pasado y la liberación del futuro.

If we're morally responsible for monitoring our own souls, then we're morally responsible, as well, for monitoring the soul of our nation.

El amor sana todas las heridas. Ningún problema es demasiado pequeño para merecer la atención de Dios, ni demasiado grande para que Él no pueda resolverlo.

La verdad es que cada etapa de la vida es perfecta, si realmente nos permitimos vivir en ella.

You can't be a light of the world and a nervous wreck at the same time.

we are punished by our sins, not for them. Your mistakes, no matter how bad you might think they were, did not emanate from your self as He created you. Thats why remembering who you truly are is the key to deliverance from the flames of self condemnation.

Cuando las cosas del mundo nos preocupan, lo que tenemos que hacer no es unirnos al caos sino adentrarnos en la paz interior.

La única forma de alcanzar el poder en un mundo que avanza demasiado rápido es aprender a tener calma.

Mary, I wish to know who I am as a wife or girlfriend or mother or daughter. I wish to be the woman I am capable of being. I wish to have your purity and clarity and level of enlightenment. May the essence of my womanhood become more radiant than my external self.

Spirituality reflects the most sophisticated mindset and the most power force available for the transformation of human suffering – whether some is taking medication or not. That is why learning the basics of a spiritual worldview – and the mental, emotional, and behavioral principals that this entails – is key to reclaiming our inner peace.

God forgives you. Your mistakes did not change the ultimate truth about you or alter the permanent nature of God's universe. Your ego is not that powerful. Truly atone for your errors, make amends where possible, and you'll be free to begin again.

God will always have the final say. And His say will always be how very much that you are loved