Quotes from Marianne Williamson

Avalon is a magical island that is hidden behind huge impenetrable mists. Unless the mists part, there is no way to navigate your way to the island. But unless you believe the island is there, the mists won't part.

The world softens when we soften

ancient thought forms of oppression and domination have reappeared among us.

No importa si hoy estamos o no de humor para ser amables con el conductor del autobús; debemos serlo de todas formas—y veremos cómo esta actitud comienza a afectar nuestro estado de ánimo. Basta con presionar el botón de la persona que queremos ser y aparece el archivo correspondiente.

Today I seek to love those whom I do not like.

We 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.

there is no such thing as a faithless person.' Faith is an aspect of consciousness. We either have faith in fear or we have faith in love, faith

Responsibility means response-ability. Fear is speaking loudly in the world today; now we the people need to respond.

Humanity itself is being challenged to move on to the next stage of our evolution.

Giving people a lot of consumer products but not giving them information is like giving people lots of candy but withholding basic nourishment. Perhaps if you give people a way to make more money, they won't notice that you've taken away something even more precious. If you legitimize their self-centeredness, they'll be more likely to forget about their ancestors, their fellow citizens, or their descendants.

It is not the love given to me by others, but only the love that I myself provide, that will save me today from suffering. I call to mind any person from whom I have been withholding love or forgiveness, or situation from which I have been withholding faith in miracles, and surrender such thoughts for healing.

Most men have no idea of the lengths to which a woman will go for love of the depths of our despair when we feel it cut off.

Fear manufactures a kind of parallel universe where the unreal seems real, and the real seems unreal.

we need to atone for our mistakes as a nation and return to the democratic principles and universal human values from which we have strayed.

The shift from fear to love is a miracle

No sabía que no es más que un cambio en la manera de percibir.

How could everybody think that this stupid game of "making it in the world"—which I was actually embarrassed I didn't know how to play—could be all there is to our being here?

altar to God is the human mind. To "desecrate the altar" is to fill it with non-loving thoughts.

In a world gone mad, we can choose to be sane. In order to move ourselves, and our civilization, into the next phase of our evolutionary journey, it's time for all of us to awaken.

We cannot save the world without God's help, but He can't save the world without ours. We need His love; He needs our hands and feet. Today I give Him mine.

We're not being stopped by something on the outside, but by something on the inside.

what shakes us to our core is what shakes us awake.

Mary's was a virgin birth, and the word virgin means a woman unto herself. The actualized woman is powerful unto herself and gives birth to things divine. Today we have the chance to give birth to a healed and transformed world.

past. She is conceived in consciousness, born in love, and nurtured by higher thinking. She is integrity and value, created and sustained by the hard work of personal growth and the discipline of a life lived actively in hope. Build community. Nurture those less fortunate. Become yourself. Seek God. No less potent steps than these will be deep enough to move you forward.