Quotes by Marianne Williamson

Achievement doesnt 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. People who profoundly achieve arent necessarily people who do so much, theyre people around whom things get done. Mahatma Gandhi and JFK were great examples of this.  Their great achievements lay in all the energy they stirred in other people, the invisible forces they unleashed around them.  By touching their own depths, they touched the depths within others.  That kind of charisma, the power to affect what happens on the earth, from an invisible realm within is the natural right and function of the son of god.  New frontiers are internal ones, the real stretch is always within us.  Instead of expanding our ability or willingness to go out and get anything, we expand our ability to receive what is already here for us.  Personal power emanates from someone who takes life seriously.  The universe takes us as seriously as we take it.  There is no greater seriousness than the full appreciation of the power and importance of love.  Miracles flow from the recognition that love is the purpose of our career.

The problem with setting goals is that they can be limiting.  Perhaps were asking for something good when Gods will is that we be given something great.

Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.

You have tremendous gifts to give; God sent them with you when you came to this earth. And while you might forget them, or doubt they exist, God does not forget and He will show them to you. As soon as your gifts are dedicated to His work, they will blossom. Chains that might have held you back for years will dissolve. And you will feel free. You will learn that your spirit is bigger than your circumstances, as soon as you put your spirit first.

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

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people wont feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

Healing occurs in the present, not the past.  Were not held back by the love we didnt receive in the past, but by the love wee not giving in the present.  Theres a lot of talk today about people growing up in dysfunctional homes, but who didnt grow up in a dysfunctional home?  This world is a dysfunction.  However, theres nothing weve been through or seen or done that cannot be used to make our lives more valuable now.  We can grow from any experience, and we can transcend any experience.

Christmas and Easter are attitudinal bookends for an enlightened world view. With an enlightened view of Christmas, we understand that it is within our power through God to give birth to a divine self. With an enlightened view of Easter, we understand that this self is the power of the universe before which death itself has no real power. Resurrection is the symbol of joy, it is the great ah-ha! The acceptance of the resurrection is the realization of the fact that we need wait no longer to see ourselves as healed and whole.

Our prayer is not simply, ‘Dear God, please send me a better job,’ but, ‘Dear God, enable me to see this situation differently, that this area of apparent lack might be healed inside my mind.

Love will be our medicine.

A Course in Miracles says we think were going to understand people in order to figure out whether or not theyre worthy of our love,  but that actually, until we love them, we can never understand them.  What is not loved is not understood.  We hold ourselves separate from people and wait for them to earn our love, but people deserve our love because of what God created them to be.  As long as were waiting for them to be anything better, we will constantly be disappointed.  When we choose to join with them through approval and unconditional love, the miracle kicks in for both parties. This is the primary key, the ultimate miracle, in relationships.

In our ability to think about something differently lies the power to make it different.

You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.

A spiritual relationship is not necessarily one in which two people are smiling all the time.  Spiritual means to be above all else, authentic.  Real work can only occur in the presence of rigorous honesty  We all long for that, but were afraid of communicating honestly with another person because we think theyll leave us if they see who we really are.

There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.

Dont stop now. Keep going. The next time someone makes you feel though, winning as you are, perhaps youre getting too big for your britches; say to them silently, i havent even started yet.

A queen is wise. She has earned her serenity, not having had it bestowed on her but having passer her tests. She has suffered and grown more beautiful because of it. She has proved she can hold her kingdom together. She has become its vision. She cares deeply about something bigger than herself. She rules with authentic power.

We cant look to the world to restore our worth; were here to restore our worth to the world. The world outside us can reflect our glory, but it cannot create it. It cannot crown us. Only God can crown us, and he already has.

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, thats where humanity is now: about to discover were 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