Top 500 Marianne Williamson Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “In any moment, in any circumstance, a miracle will occur when we align ourselves with truth.”

— Marianne Williamson

352. “The real transformation of the world comes not from what we are doing but from the consciousness from which we are doing it.”

— Marianne Williamson

353. “Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? Your playing small does not serve the world. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.”

— Marianne Williamson

354. “Eastern religions tell us that if we go for God, all that is not authentically ourselves will drop.”

— Marianne Williamson

355. “We tend to have tremendous faith in the power of our disasters and far too little faith in the power of miracles.”

— Marianne Williamson

356. “Jesus lived within this world of fear, and perceived only love. Every action, every word, every thought was guided by the Holy Spirit instead of the ego. He was a thoroughly purified being. To think about him is to think about, and so to call forth, the perfect love inside ourselves.”

— Marianne Williamson

357. “Because our consciousness is tied to the physical manifestation of reality, we are tied to the belief in separation.”

— Marianne Williamson

358. “Love is to people what water is to plants.”

— Marianne Williamson

359. “Often we see a couple who has separated or divorced and look with sadness at the ‘failure’ of their relationship. But if both people learned what they were meant to learn, then that relationship was a success.”

— Marianne Williamson

360. “Sex is not the ultimate high, but the ultimate high hangs out around sex. The ultimate high is the dance with another person, played so deep down and with such abandon that glee returns to grown-ups.”

— Marianne Williamson

361. “Only what I’m not giving is what is lacking in any situation.”

— Marianne Williamson

362. “The bottom line in love is not whether someone loves you, but whether someone chooses you.”

— Marianne Williamson

363. “If you are not grieving, you are not conscious. But if you are not rejoicing in the possibilities of how this could all change, then you are not looking through the filter of the greatest spiritual perspicacity.”

— Marianne Williamson

364. “In each of us, there lies a divine connection to a power more powerful than hate or violence. Today is the day to attune to that power and use it on behalf of peace on earth.”

— Marianne Williamson

365. “Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we’ve seen it up close.”

— Marianne Williamson

366. “Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.” What that means is this: Love is real. It’s an eternal creation and nothing can destroy it. Anything that isn’t love is an illusion. Remember this, and you’ll be at.”

— Marianne Williamson

367. “The biggest problem is our lack of “response-ability.” That’s what happens when money rather than love is the bottom line. People act like idiots.”

— Marianne Williamson

368. “In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.”

— Marianne Williamson

369. “Forgiveness is ‘selective remembering’ – a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go.”

— Marianne Williamson

370. “Political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks tenderness. It lacks poetry. It doesn’t nurture. It doesn’t love. And without those things, a woman’s soul is bereft.”

— Marianne Williamson

371. “Putting love first means knowing that the universe supports you in creating the good, the holy, and the beautiful. It means knowing that you’re on the earth for a purpose, and that the purpose itself will create opportunities for its accomplishment.”

— Marianne Williamson

372. “Sex should be a deepening of communication, not a substitute for it.”

— Marianne Williamson

373. “The number one root of all illness, as we know, is stress.”

— Marianne Williamson

374. “Achievement doesn’t come from what we do, but from who we are. Our worldly power results from our personal power. Our career is an extension of our personality.”

— Marianne Williamson

375. “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.”

— Marianne Williamson

376. “Every judgement blocks the light!”

— Marianne Williamson

377. “Angry people cannot create a peaceful planet.”

— Marianne Williamson

378. “There can be no darkness where I provide the light.”

— Marianne Williamson

379. “The purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us.”

— Marianne Williamson

380. “The spiritual commitment is to make every situation an object of devotional connection.”

— Marianne Williamson

381. “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.”

— Marianne Williamson

382. “Again – nothing you do or think or wish or make is necessary to establish your worth.”

— Marianne Williamson

383. “No conventional therapy can release us from a deep and abiding psychic pain. Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world.”

— Marianne Williamson

384. “Our internal state determines our experience of our lives; our experiences do not determine our internal state.”

— Marianne Williamson

385. “To the extent we are perceiving anyone’s guilt -choosing to focus on the errors of their personality rather than the eternal innocence of their spirit – we’re closing our hearts, deflecting a miracle and causing our own inevitable suffering.”

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

387. “Imagine a temple inside your mind, a haven from the chaos of the world. Visit often.”

— Marianne Williamson

388. “Truth will always reassert itself, given a symbolic three days. Three days represents the time it takes between the crucifixion and the resurrection, between an open-hearted response to hurt and the experience of rebirth that will always follow.”

— Marianne Williamson

389. “The mystical journey drives us into ourselves, to a sacred flame at our center.”

— Marianne Williamson

390. “We were all born carrying a promise – a promise to make the world better – and there’s a yearning to make good on that promise that none of us can suppress forever.”

— Marianne Williamson

391. “The key to a successful career is realizing that it’s not separate from the rest of your life, but is rather an extension of your most basic self. And your most basic self is love.”

— Marianne Williamson

392. “God is a peaceful ground of being. He is the energy of nonviolence. To ask Him to help is to ask Him to turn us into profoundly peaceful people.”

— Marianne Williamson

393. “You get to decide what energy you choose to download in any moment. No one but you gets to decide who you wish to be.”

— Marianne Williamson

394. “If you know what changes a heart, you know what changes the world.”

— Marianne Williamson

395. “It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone.”

— Marianne Williamson

396. “Love is a wave flowing in the direction of bliss for all living things. It will carry you if you allow it to flow through you.”

— Marianne Williamson

397. “When love isn’t in our lives, it’s on the way. If you know that a special guest is coming at five o’clock, do you spend the day messing up the home? Of course not. You prepare. And that is what we should do for love.”

— Marianne Williamson

398. “Just as you wouldn’t leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn’t start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.”

— Marianne Williamson

399. “Problems come about when we try to direct the flow of the universe rather than allow it to reveal its own design. Inherent in that design is a love for all living things.”

— Marianne Williamson

400. “Once we truly understand that God’s will is that we be happy, we no longer feel the need to ask for anything other than that God’s will be done.”

— Marianne Williamson