Quotes from Marianne Williamson

Carrying the past in to the present, we program the future to continue the past. Letting go the past in the present, we free the future to be something else.

No matter what mistakes we might have made yesterday, today is the day we can retrieve our innocence.

What emerges from the silence is the deafening sound of an old world disintegrating.

We are always pregnant with a truer version of ourselves.

With thoughts of the past and concerns about the future, we rob ourselves of a full experience of the present.

When I was just writing books and giving lectures, if people disagreed, they just didn't buy your book or attend your lectures. But, if you're leading a congregation, people feel they have the right to tell you what you should or shouldn't talk about. And that hasn't always been easy for me.

The issue of spiritual power is to meet the limited mortal circumstance with unlimited thought.

Surrender doesn't obstruct power; it enhances it.

The issue is not whether or not you have that power, the issue is whether or not you use it.

Yes, we see that there are problems in the world. But we believe in a universal force that, when activated by the human heart, has the power to make all things right.

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

Our prayer is not simply, 'Dear God, please send me a better job,' but, 'Dear God, enable me to see this situation differently, that this area of apparent lack might be healed inside my mind.

Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.

I believe that ultimately it all comes down to whether we seek conscious contact with God on a daily basis through prayer and meditation.

The purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us.

So it is that a new politics centers around the arousal of that power, using prayer and meditation to create a force field of transformation.

The purpose of prayer is the alignment of the mind with the thoughts and the will of God.

Every relationship, every situation is part of a divinely created and highly specific curriculum for your soul growth

Something very beautiful happens to people when their world's fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor.

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

Every act of kindness on your part is a boost to your own immune system.

The fact that people in Hollywood are open to what I teach is not because they're more desperate than anyone else, but because they're more touched by it. That's not their weakness. It's their strength!

I have known healthy, wealthy people who were depressed, and people with critical illnesses who could honestly attest to joy.

We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm.