Quotes from Marianne Williamson

Politics is in a crisis because it's separated from our deep humanity.

I've known Dennis Kucinich for a long time, and I don't think I have illusions about him. Sometimes I find him pompous, male chauvinistic, intellectually unbending. But he is a good man, and a serious one.

We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that's possible and pain that's all too common. We hope for love and success and abundance, but we never quite forget that there is always lurking the possibility of disaster.

Jesus was a human being who, while on Earth, completely self-actualized and fulfilled in all ways the potential glory that lies within us all.

When God created the world, he didn't draw a line between Canada and America.

In all the great religious systems, there are divine beings who represent the feminine face of the divine.

I now see that is a woman's God-given role to tend to the home and take care of the children: it's just that the entire planet is our home, and every child on it is one of our children.

A holy relationship is where the brokenness and wounds of the world are not escaped so much as as transformed by love, not hidden from but risen above.

We love purely when we release other people to be who they are.

Your relationship to food is but a reflection of your relationship to yourself, as is everything in your life.

To me, liberation doesn't mean that I can think just like a man. Real liberation means that I can think, act, and be like a woman and receive equal respect, honor, and compensation.

To become romantic artists, we must pierce the armor that hides our hearts, and the piercing is not comfortable.

The problem with most intimate relationships is that they are not romantic. They do not involve a deeper knowing, and thus there is diminished possibility of sacred, transformative sharing.

We cannot get to our knowledge because the world is too loud. And we tend to make it louder as we cry out in pain, pretending we are singing.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

While overeating would be seen by some as an indulgence of self, it is in fact a profound rejection of self. It is a moment of self-betrayal and self-punishment, and anything but a commitment to one's own well-being.

Corporate America is not dumb; it's worked hard to sew up both political parties in its nefarious schemes to place their short-term economic interests before the health and well-being of the average American.

I think of prayer as a spiritual lifeline back to where I most want to be.

I love prayer candles, and I use them often.

The same group of New York pseudo-intellectuals who've put down prayer are the same ones who put down L.A.

My self healing lies in praying for those who have harmed me.

In my lifetime, we have lost a President, a Civil Rights leader and a Presidential candidate - all to gun violence.

I don't know anybody who doesn't have a lost decade.

Only do what you feel called in your heart to do, and then give all of yourself to the task.