Marianne Williamson
Most women I know are priestesses and healers... We are, all of us, sisters of a mysterious order.
When my sister was diagnosed with cancer in 1989, her doctor told her that the cancer had probably been in her system for 10 years. By the time cancer's diagnosed, it's usually been around for quite a while.
We are material beings for but a moment in time, but we are spiritual beings forever.
Nature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings.
People with AIDS, cancer and other illnesses need free nonmedical support services.
Children are not children. They are just younger people.
The Western world is having an identity crisis.
A threat to our freedom is a threat to our freedom, whether from a terrorist or from a trade deal.
It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time.
One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet once I did, I had an unexpected surprise. Rather than self-hatred, I was flooded with compassion for myself because I realized the pain necessary to develop that coping mechanism to begin with.
Our key to transforming anything lies in our ability to reframe it.
People crave comfort, people crave connection, people crave community.
Christ is born into the world through each of us.
You get enough people agreeing in consciousness that Mexico is a dangerous place, and that dangerous thought will make it so.
In every advanced mammalian species that survives and thrives, a common anthropological characteristic is the fierce behavior of the adult female of the species when she senses a threat to her cubs. The lioness, the tigress and the mama bear are all examples.
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.
If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.
Trying to suppress or eradicate symptoms on the physical level can be extremely important, but there's more to healing than that; dealing with psychological, emotional and spiritual issues involved in treating sickness is equally important.
Major political parties have a role, but they are incapable of initiating fundamental change because they are fundamentally tied to the status quo. They are the status quo.
We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.
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.
Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.
If you're trained in metaphysics, you don't see the world as distinct from yourself. You are one with the world.
People on a spiritual path - personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga and so forth - are the last people who should be sitting out the social and political issues of our day.
My self healing lies in praying for those who have harmed me.
The world cannot evolve if girls refuse to become women.
The whole Obama phenomenon brings up memories from my distant past: the good-looking guy who talks real good, whose line you don't buy immediately but whose charm is so dazzling that he gradually convinces you that this time it will be different.
Family relationships trigger childhood wounds, and those wounds often trump our rational thinking. We can't 'rationally' transcend the kind of primal pain that such relationships can arouse.
I don't know anybody who doesn't have a lost decade.
Pray for Trump's sanity and clarity, because his power to cause real damage to our country is enormous.
America won't be saved because one or 10 people stand up. It will be saved because millions of us stand up.
Physical circumstances have very little to do with either our capacity to love or to attract love.
You can't 'work through worry and fear rationally,' because fear isn't rational!
God is definitely out of the closet.
I don't think I represent some new category. I think I do represent kind of a freethinker.
In Taoist philosophy, 'yin' is the feminine principle, representing the forces of earth, while 'yang' is the masculine principle, representing spirit.
You label somebody 'New Age,' and that's automatic mockery: 'She cannot possibly be a serious thinker.'
Sometimes a miracle is a change in material conditions, such as physical healing. At other times, it is a psychological or emotional change.
Now if you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - because a nation is simply a large group of individuals.
Charles Manson ate apples. That doesn't mean I'm not going to.
We experience God to the extent to which we love, forgive, and focus on the good in others and ourselves.
Whether the Sikhs want to worship in Wisconsin or the Christians want to worship in Texas or the Jews want to worship in New York, we're living under the magnificent umbrella of a Constitution that says we can.
I love prayer candles, and I use them often.
People are starting to wake up to the fact that a media/political party-complex basically decide our candidate, then create the illusion for the rest of us that in fact we're the ones who did the deciding.
God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.
Spiritually, I understand that Trump is an innocent child of God. And before he was a Presidential candidate, I found him to be a kind of entertaining American character. But he is not entertaining anymore; he is frightening. He has been elected to the Presidency of the United States and yet he acts like he is mocking the job.
I didn't realize that running as an independent would be perceived as a threat to the Democrats.
I believe that hunger for a 'lost dimension' of experience is a natural yearning in all of us, and it doesn't go away just because we ignore it. It is evidenced among other places in the millions of children and adults who obsessively read the 'Harry Potter' books. It is said that fiction is where someone gets to tell the truth.
I've known Dennis Kucinich for a long time, and I don't think I have illusions about him. Sometimes I find him pompous, male chauvinistic, intellectually unbending. But he is a good man, and a serious one.