Top 500 Marianne Williamson Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “The transformation from body identification to spirit identification is the purpose of our lives.”

— Marianne Williamson

252. “Think of your work life therefore, not as separate from your spiritual life but as central to your spiritual life. Whatever your business, it is your ministry.”

— Marianne Williamson

253. “We aren’t bodies at all; who we are is the love inside us, and it is that love alone that determines our value. When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness.”

— Marianne Williamson

254. “The opportunities for infinite possibility exist no matter what age we are.”

— Marianne Williamson

255. “I embrace each moment as an opportunity for a miracle.”

— Marianne Williamson

256. “Love is not neutral. It takes a stand. It is a commitment to the attainment of the conditions of peace for everyone involved in a situation.”

— Marianne Williamson

257. “Think of the mystical three days between the crucifixion and the resurrection as the time it takes for a situation to change once spirit has infused our consciousness. As we come to look at an experience differently, in time in begins to transform.”

— Marianne Williamson

258. “It takes mystical insight to see the beauty and innocence in each other, even when that is not what we are showing to the world. That is why God is needed in intimate relationships, to move us beyond the perceptions that can so often poison love.”

— Marianne Williamson

259. “The universe is wired to give us what we need, yet we have to show up for the experience of life with a positive attitude in order to experience its gifts.”

— Marianne Williamson

260. “Your life shows up for you when you show up for your life.”

— Marianne Williamson

261. “Once you reach a certain age, you’re either slowly dying or slowly being reborn. I want to choose the latter.”

— Marianne Williamson

262. “Instead of praying: ‘Dear God, bring me someone fabulous,’ try: ‘Dear God, make me into someone fabulous.’”

— Marianne Williamson

263. “The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.”

— Marianne Williamson

264. “The work of intimacy, of course, is to learn to both show your own illumination, and to see it in a way that the physical eyes cannot reveal. In a way that only the heart can reveal: the illumined beauty in another person.”

— Marianne Williamson

265. “Use each interaction to be the best, most powerful version of yourself.”

— Marianne Williamson

266. “Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation-not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke.”

— Marianne Williamson

267. “The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through.”

— Marianne Williamson

268. “The universe is conspiring at this moment to bring you happiness and peace.”

— Marianne Williamson

269. “I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in the quietness of their hearts might think, ‘Why not me?’”

— Marianne Williamson

270. “Sometimes the purpose of a day is to merely feel our sadness, knowing that as we do, we allow whole layers of grief, like old skin cells to drop off us.”

— Marianne Williamson

271. “The masculine DOES while the feminine IS. Major in the feminine, but minor in the masculine.”

— Marianne Williamson

272. “When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom.”

— Marianne Williamson

273. “Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it...”

— Marianne Williamson

274. “The world is terrified of joyful women. Make a stand. Be one anyway.”

— Marianne Williamson

275. “The body IS a miracle, after all.”

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276. “With every thought we think, we either summon or block a miracle.”

— Marianne Williamson

277. “Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.”

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

279. “Once the light of our awareness is cast on any darkness, then it cannot hide and it cannot remain. Such is the law of consciousness.”

— Marianne Williamson

280. “The time to show up fully for life is right now, whatever the circumstances.”

— Marianne Williamson

281. “A primary goal of the spiritual life is to learn to quiet the mind through prayer and meditation, through spiritual practice, so that we can hear what in both Judaism and Christianity, is called the small, still voice within.”

— Marianne Williamson

282. “Love is about letting go of the fears that stand in front of our hearts.”

— Marianne Williamson

283. “The heart’s transformation is not attained through the mind – it’s attained through surrender, authenticity, forgiveness, faith, honesty, acceptance, vulnerability, humility, willingness, nonjudgment, and other characterological values that have to be learned and relearned continuously.”

— Marianne Williamson

284. “As long as there are ways we can serve, then we have a job to do.”

— Marianne Williamson

285. “It is absolutely a relationship with food that is a displaced relationship with God. And that displaced relationship with God takes two forms: our availability to other people and our availability to our own thoughts and feelings.”

— Marianne Williamson

286. “Our power lies in remaining nonreactive.”

— Marianne Williamson

287. “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.”

— Marianne Williamson

288. “Even a happy life has a sad day. We fail to provide a context which says it’s okay to cry, it’s okay to be sad. So I think making the space for suffering is so important and making space for this expression of feelings in community.”

— Marianne Williamson

289. “Whenever we feel lost, or insane, or afraid, all we have to do is ask for His help. The help might not come in the form we expected, or even thought we desired, but it will come, and we will recognize it by how we feel. In spite of everything, we will feel at peace.”

— Marianne Williamson

290. “Looking for Mr. Right leads to desperation, because there is no Mr. Right. There is no Mr. Right, because there is no Mr. Wrong. There is whoever is in front of us and the perfect lessons to be learned from that person.”

— Marianne Williamson

291. “The cosmic spotlight isn’t pointed at you; it radiates from within you.”

— Marianne Williamson

292. “Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface.”

— Marianne Williamson

293. “Love is all around us all the time. Love is the ethers that we swim in. Love is the amniotic fluid of the soul.”

— Marianne Williamson

294. “When a woman gives birth, two are born: a baby from the womb of its mother and a woman from the womb of her former existence.”

— Marianne Williamson

295. “Taking the time to meditate is as important as taking the time to breathe. One pumps oxygen into the body, the other pumps peace into the mind.”

— Marianne Williamson

296. “In the Jewish religion it says – in the time of deepest darkest night act as if the morning has already come.”

— Marianne Williamson

297. “Personal growth can be painful, because it can make us feel ashamed and humiliated to face our own darkness. But our spiritual goal is the journey out of fear-based, painful mental habit patterns, to those of love and peace.”

— Marianne Williamson

298. “You have to make a space in your heart, in your mind and in your life itself for authentic human connection.”

— Marianne Williamson

299. “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.”

— Marianne Williamson

300. “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.”

— Marianne Williamson