Quotes from Marianne Williamson

Donald Trump is an innocent child of God, and the democratically chosen president-elect of the United States. We must deeply bow before the first and deeply respect the second.

I believe the Israelis have been wronged, but they also have a lot to apologize for. And I believe the Palestinians have been wronged, but they have a lot to apologize for, as well.

In 'Healing the Soul of America,' I wrote about Gandhi's notion of soul force in politics and why it matters to stand on your truth.

The Founders didn't mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washington in essence warned us against them in his Farewell Address.

I believe that hunger for a 'lost dimension' of experience is a natural yearning in all of us, and it doesn't go away just because we ignore it. It is evidenced among other places in the millions of children and adults who obsessively read the 'Harry Potter' books. It is said that fiction is where someone gets to tell the truth.

If anything is naive and lightweight, it's the traditional political conversation.

Tragedy takes us to the very state of consciousness which, were we to hold to it, would go far toward preventing further tragedies.

Life is not a piece of tragic fiction in which, at the end of the reading, we all get up and go out for drinks.

If you're trained in metaphysics, you don't see the world as distinct from yourself. You are one with the world.

Our task, in the aftermath of September 11, was and continues to be the transformation of the effects of evil into something beautiful and good.

The worlds of Truth (love) and illusion (fear) are like parallel universes; with every thought we make a choice which one to inhabit

Conscious awareness is the source of our healing...Only when you say the truth can the truth set you free. This is not a negative process, but at times it is a difficult process.

The soul is the truth of who we are.

I believe that the truth with a capital T is at the center of all the great religious teachings.

The world as we know it is falling apart at the seams, because it's an inadequate container for the truth of who we are.

If you have a longing in your heart to hear a deeper truth, there's a mysterious way in which that truth will find you.

As you get older, life gets harder if you're not applying spiritual truths.

Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse.

Our challenge is to not look away, but rather to transform the field; to create a new political conversation, our own conversation, out of which we can speak our truth in our own way.

You've committed no sins, just mistakes.

When my sister was diagnosed with cancer in 1989, her doctor told her that the cancer had probably been in her system for 10 years. By the time cancer's diagnosed, it's usually been around for quite a while.

Most women I know are priestesses and healers... We are, all of us, sisters of a mysterious order.

In most of our situations in life, if we take a good honest look at our lives, we are holding to small, limiting thoughts, cynical thoughts.

Never think you can separate who you are from what you're doing.