Quotes from Marianne Williamson

Dear God, I surrender to you all my thoughts about money, I surrender to you my debts, I surrender to you my wealth. Open my mind to receive abundantly. Channel your abundance through me in a way that serves the world. Amen

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? Your playing small doesn't serve the world. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

We experience it as kindness, giving, mercy, compassion, peace, joy, acceptance, non-judgment, joining, and intimacy.

The crucifixion of the Goddess - the invalidation of feminine beliefs and values - lies at the heart of all our painful dramas. But crucifixion is merely a prelude to resurrection, and we are now living at the beginning stages of the resurrection of the Goddess.

Si deseamos una sanación genuina de nuestros corazones—no sólo un arreglar las cosas o vendar la aorta rota del espíritu—debemos cuestionar las suposiciones más fundamentales del ego.

America will not move forward into a new era of greatness unless we atone for the militaristic madness that has gripped our country in the years since World War II. We fought that war because we needed to.

When we remember our royal inheritance, men will become our true partners, our kings.

The world is meant to be a safe and nurturing environment for children. The fact that it isn't is a sacred call to action for every conscious woman.

It is not your job to seek for love, it is your job to seek within yourself all the barriers who hold against its coming.

I resist all temptation today to judge how I think others should behave. I cannot know the deeper forces at work within anyone's heart. My deliverance comes from accepting all people, not judging or controlling them.

Si dejamos de aferrarnos al pasado, hacemos lugar para los milagros.

Today I will not burden myself by thinking I need to run the universe. I needn't control anyone or anything. I need only to show up fully with my heart and in my excellence.

Somos espíritu y, por consiguiente, somos más que el mundo. Cuando recordamos esto, el mundo mismo se inclinará ante nuestro recuerdo.

It is not the radicalism of hate that is our biggest danger today; our biggest danger is that we lack the radicalism of love.

We have the opportunity to forge a marriage between the masculine and feminine, more potent and more vibrant than any we have experienced on the earth for ages - more beautiful, perhaps, than any the earth has ever known.

A Course in Miracles says that the most effective way to teach a child is not by saying 'Don't do that,' but 'Do this.' We don't reach the light through endless analysis of the dark. We reach the light by choosing the light. Light means understanding. Through understanding, we are healed.

Many of us know in our hearts that we never really grew up. The problem isn't that we're lost or apathetic, narcissistic or materialistic. The problem is we're terrified.

The real war is not without, but within: between ego-based fear and spirit-based love.

Someone with whom we have a lifetime's worth of lessons to learn is someone whose presence in our lives forces us to grow.

nuestra herramienta más eficaz para cambiar el mundo es nuestra capacidad para «cambiar de mentalidad con respecto al mundo.»

When we are without joy, we grope in the dark. When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom. A joyful woman, by merely being, says it all. The world is terrified of joyful women.

May I have the strength to forgive those who've betrayed me.

Do terrorists hate us just some of the time? Do they have a casual commitment to their cause? Do they take less than seriously the goal of full manifestation of their worldview? The only way we will triumph over hate is to become as deeply committed to love as some people are committed to hate, as deeply devoted to expressing our love as some people are devoted to expressing their hate, and as firm in our conviction that love is our mission as some are that hate is theirs.

Embracing joy heals depression. Then we become the ones who teach the meaning of joy to our children, as well as allowing them to teach it to us.