Quotes from Marianne Williamson

We tend to lack humility toward love, to patronize it rather than bow before it, to put mundane considerations before the emotional need to hold someone in our arms.

Our barriers to love are rarely consciously chosen. They are our efforts to protect the places where the heart is bruised.

Every heart has a divine intelligence and natural guidance system. With every prayer, every meditation and every thought of love, we tune in to ours.

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

There are people today who look to fear to take us out of fear. But I believe that there are many, many more people who would look to love.

Make a room for love and it always comes. Make a nest for love and it always settles. Make a home for the beloved and the beloved with always find their way there

When we think with love, we are literally co-creating with God.

You can live in your total potential creative capacity in an instant-with your heart open to give and receive love.

At the highest level of awareness, the greatest gift given and received when you give someone flowers, is the joy of living a life based on love.

Love itself compensates for any diminishment.

The daughters of God don't brake for jerks.

In Taoist philosophy, 'yin' is the feminine principle, representing the forces of earth, while 'yang' is the masculine principle, representing spirit.

People on a spiritual path - personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga and so forth - are the last people who should be sitting out the social and political issues of our day.

Trying to suppress or eradicate symptoms on the physical level can be extremely important, but there's more to healing than that; dealing with psychological, emotional and spiritual issues involved in treating sickness is equally important.

It's tempting, when confronted by political malfeasance, to become so absorbed with its symptom that we give too little attention to treating its cause.

Inner peace doesn't come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.

Magic happens when you tell the universe what you want it to do for you; miracles happen when you ask how you can be of service to the universe.

Darkness is merely the absence of light, and fear is merely the absence of love. If we want to be rid of fear, we cannot fight it but must replace it with love.

I know politics is emotionally brutal; I've already had experience with the reality of smear campaigns, so I understand there will not be a path of roses laid before me.

Children are not children. They are just younger people.

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

Spiritual 'exercise' keeps your mind in shape the way physical exercise keeps your body in shape.

One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over.

Successful businesses create jobs; that is true. But the notion that if we cut taxes enough for the very rich and for already hugely profitable businesses, then all that money will trickle down to everyone else in the form of job creation is simply false.