Marianne Williamson

“Most women I know are priestesses and healers... We are, all of us, sisters of a mysterious order.”

“Jesus is a personal symbol of the Holy Spirit. Having been totally healed by the Holy Spirit, Jesus became one with him. Every thought, action, and deed of Jesus was guided by the Holy Spirit instead of ego.”

“Love makes us wake up in the morning with a sense of purpose and a flow of creative ideas. Love floods our nervous system with positive energy, making us far more attractive to prospective employers, clients, and creative partners. Love fills us with powerful charisma, enabling us to produce new ideas and new projects, even within circumstances that seem to be limited. Love leads us to atone for our errors and clean up the mess when we've made mistakes. Love leads us to act with impeccability, integrity, and excellence. Love leads us to serve, to forgive, and to hope. Those things are the opposite of a poverty consciousness; they're the stuff of spiritual wealth creation.”

“As all of us are only too aware, the loud and frantic voices of the outer world easily drown out the small, still loving voice within.”

“I believe the Israelis have been wronged, but they also have a lot to apologize for. And I believe the Palestinians have been wronged, but they have a lot to apologize for, as well.”

“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.”

“We all make mistakes, we all have fears, and we all have weaknesses. Behind all that is our essential self. When our essential self has made contact with another, the light is dazzling and would fill the universe. The challenge of enchantment is to remain faithful to that light, to believe in it when it is not so apparent. Then that light becomes an incandescent glow and it wraps itself around everything.”

“There is, inside all our heads, the ego’s rabid attack dog. It is purely vicious toward others and toward ourselves as well. Learning to control that dog, and ultimately to end its life, is the process and purpose of enlightened relationships.”

“At their peak, religion and psychotherapy become one.”

“I would never, ever in my life say, 'I want to go to Washington to heal the soul of Washington.'”

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

“Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.”

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

“When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.”

“Old systems do not fold willingly, particularly when they control gargantuan amounts of wealth and power. But like empires of old - from the Romans to the Hapsburgs to the colonial British - even the largest do fall.”

“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.”

“Physical circumstances have very little to do with either our capacity to love or to attract love.”

“The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.”

“If someone thinks homosexuality is immoral, they have a right to believe that.”

“Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, that's where humanity is now: about to discover we're not as smart as we thought we were, will be forced by life to surrender our attacks and defenses which avail us of nothing, and finally break through into the collective beauty of who we really”