Quotes from Marianne Williamson

Tax breaks and other financial breaks that favor the wealthiest among us do not create greater prosperity for all; they simply siphon off more and more money to those who already have it, and more and more money away from those who do not.

I've never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching.

No matter how sad we might be, the universe is still planning our happiness.

Life is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like the end of a chapter, on some level setting up the beginning of another.

A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.

You don't need a new life, just a new lens through which to view the one you have.

The Western world is having an identity crisis.

In the hands of the ego, marriage is a prison. It is exclusive. It is a place where people are constantly reminded of their failures and limited by the energies of another person. It is rife with judgment and blame.

It's a beautiful thing when democracy prevails.

It's a fraction of the cost to prevent a war than prosecute a war.

We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.

The Republican corporatists are worse than the Democratic corporatists, but only to a degree. And Republican corporatists are at least true to their principles, however abhorrent those principles might be to some of us.

An educated child earns more later in life, knows how to keep their own children from dying, produces more food, is less likely to get AIDS, and in the case of boys, is less likely to engage in armed civil conflict.

Nature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings.

The wise person doesn't ask, "What have I achieved?" but rather, "What have I contributed?"

We need to change society's ordering principle from economic to humanitarian values, from money as the bottom line to love as the bottom line.

We must seek to be intellectually inclusive, just as we seek to be culturally inclusive. Ideas come and go - that's what makes a free society so vital.

We need love - an awesome love grounded in the evolutionary potential for life on Earth - to become the organizing principle for human society.

For a society as abundant and as blessed as ours, to have as many disadvantaged children as we have does not bode well for our long-term economic future.

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

If you went to live in the Himalayas and everyone was lovely there, I'm sure it would be fairly easy to be a spiritual master.

To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.

The change we are looking for is always a change within ourselves. And the change will come. I've noticed that as long as I'm willing to be different, something or someone arrives to show me how.

Great spiritual teachings do not change, but we do. As we grow older and wiser, we can receive the teachings at deeper levels.