Marianne Williamson quotes

“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.”

— Marianne Williamson

“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.”

— Marianne Williamson

“Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.”

— Marianne Williamson

“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

“The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.”

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

“You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.”

— Marianne Williamson

“The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it.”

— Marianne Williamson

“We're often afraid of looking at our shadow because we want to avoid the shame or embarrassment that comes along with admitting mistakes.”

— Marianne Williamson

“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.”

— Marianne Williamson

“Americans are good with to-do lists; just tell us what to do, and we'll do it. Throughout our history, we have proven that. Colonize. Check. Win our independence. Check. Form a union. Check. Expand to the Pacific. Check. Settle the West. Check. Keep the Union together. Check. Industrialize. Check. Fight the Nazis. Check.”

— Marianne Williamson

“The Founders didn't mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washington in essence warned us against them in his Farewell Address.”

— Marianne Williamson

“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

“There's nothing more powerful than a woman who knows how to contain her power and not let it leak, standing firmly within it in mystery and silence. A woman who talks too much sheds her allure.”

— Marianne Williamson

“If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.”

— Marianne Williamson

“Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.”

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Marianne Williamson

“Anytime you try to be a loving person, you're doing your part to save the world.”

— Marianne Williamson

“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.”

— Marianne Williamson

“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.”

— Marianne Williamson

“Unforgiveness is like drinking poison yourself and waiting for the other person to die.”

— Marianne Williamson

“The ego mind both professes its desire for love and does everything possible to repel it, or if it gets here anyway, to sabotage it. That is why dealing with issues like control, anger, and neediness is the most important work in preparing ourselves for love.”

— Marianne Williamson

“In the name of feminism, we denied some essential aspects of our authentic selves. While feminism should have been nothing if not a celebration of our own unique characteristics, we insisted that we had no unique characteristics... that gender differences were hogwash, and a feminine woman was nothing more than a plaything for men.”

— Marianne Williamson

“If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.”

— Marianne Williamson

“Any man who holds a woman back is not a man a woman can afford to be with.”

— Marianne Williamson

“As we mature through the years, we access more deeply information we had only abstractly understood before.”

— Marianne Williamson

“I think of prayer as a spiritual lifeline back to where I most want to be.”

— Marianne Williamson

“Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life.”

— Marianne Williamson

“The holidays are only holy if we make them so.”

— Marianne Williamson

“When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big picture, more often than not just hiding in plain sight.”

— Marianne Williamson