Quotes from Marianne Williamson

Spiritual progress is like a detoxification.

Fear is not life-giving enough to sustain itself. We can move in the direction of fear only so long before it brings us to our knees, or to our end.

Choosing joy involves spiritual surrender, and sometimes we would rather hold on to the pain than surrender our egos.

Every relationship is a gift exchange.

I think the greatest gift we can give our children is to show them that devotion to God's purposes - love for all beings - is the center of all right living.

Without nourishing our own souls, we can't nourish the world, for we cannot give what we do not have. As we attend to our souls, we emanate invisibly and involuntarily the light we have received.

To be truly seen and understood - in all our innocence and glory and yes, our brokenness, too - is to be delivered into the spiritual ethers where both seen and seer are healed.

I don't think of spiritual principle as a struggle. I think of life lived without spiritual principles as a struggle.

The fate of the world rests on this one thing: our capacity to actualize our spiritual potential, and quickly.

The goal of the spiritual activist is to find inner peace even in externally chaotic circumstances.

I am a student of universal spiritual principles, and I read theology and spiritual writings, so my grasp of basic spiritual principles is fairly good.

We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transform our lives.

We can invoke spiritual compensation when we find ourselves in situations of material lack.

I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering.

Spiritual principles do not change, but we do.

Life is like a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself.

Everything connects to everything; therefore, as we change, the world cannot but change with us.

The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins

There is within each of us the possibility of magnificence. Every moment is an opportunity to make it manifest. Let the spirit awaken you to a miraculous life.

The point of life is not who falls down. The point is who gets up and how you do it.

Political propaganda seeks to affect the way people perceive the world in order to affect the way they behave.

While women were powerfully liberated both externally as well as internally by the feminism of the 1970s, we made some serious mistakes as well.

Today's average American is more apt to rebel against a tennis shoe not coming in the right color than against the slow erosion of our democratic freedom.

Many times in life, we say we want change but are then terrified when the opportunity for it arrives.