Marianne Williamson Inspirational Quotations

Our deepest 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.

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

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

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

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

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

Our key to transforming anything lies in our ability to reframe it.

A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.

When we do align with it, we thrive. And when we do not, we suffer. This is not "punishment." It is merely the Law of Cause and Effect. With each thought we think, we either align with universal love, or we disconnect ourselves from it. Whichever is our choice determines whether we then feel connected to, or disconnected, from our own true Selves.

If we never take a risk, we'll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.

There is an emergent enlightenment appearing today, unique to no particular culture or ethnicity. Anyone who chooses to be, is its conduit.

You can live constrained within the confines of a solely material perspective, or choose instead the infinite field of quantum possibility.

The wise person doesn't ask, "What have I achieved?" but rather, "What have I contributed?"

Every aspect of life is pre-programmed to rise to its highest creative possibility. We don't have to make that happen, but we have to allow it to happen. And that itself is the struggle of life: resisting the resistant mind.

The week ahead is already programmed for fabulousness. Pray that your thinking be aligned with the force that makes it so.

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.

Whatever worked in the past, build on it; whatever didn't work in the past, break the chain that binds you to it.

Speak from your mind and people will hear you with their mind. Speak from your heart and people will hear you with their heart.

You don't need a new life, just a new lens through which to view the one you have.

The universe is intentional. It is always moving in the direction of greater love, regardless whether or not we consciously align with that love.

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.

Every relationship is a gift exchange.

You must master a new way to think, before you can master a new way to be.

Until we have seen someone's darkness, we don't really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone's darkness, we don't really know what love is.

The universe is an infinite opportunity creation machine. In every instant, the possibility of greater possibility is programmed into the nature of things. Love creates the conduit through which new possibility enters our experience, and lovelessness keeps it at bay.

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.

Conviction is a force multiplier. If you want something, claim it in your gut. The universe itself responds to your inner certainty.

What emerges from the silence is the deafening sound of an old world disintegrating.

Love has a way of showing you to yourself, whether through satisfaction or humiliation. It hovers over you like a magnifying glass you cannot escape, intensifying the slightest feelings of either delight or shame. No other experience makes so obvious the realities of both heaven and hell.

Whatever outrageous dream keeps flowing across your mind, allow it to live inside you. Don't deflect it, diminish it, invalidate it or come up with some excuse for why it can't happen. This will allow it to explain itself to you - why it's there, what it means, and what if anything you should do about it.

You are completely at choice who you will be today in your interactions with others. Compassionate, kind, giving and forgiving will create one set of probabilities; angry, judgmental, critical and defensive will create another one altogether.

Embryos turn into babies; buds turn into blossoms; acorns turn into oak trees. The same programming that exists in them exists in each of us - to manifest our highest potential. What is the difference between those things and us? That we can say no...So today, say yes.

The path to self-esteem lies in getting over yourself. There is nothing to esteem about our smaller dramas; it's our commitment to something beyond ourselves that is truly estimable to ourself and others.

Love is insistent on its own continuation. Every fraction of a second, someone somewhere falls in love, a former enemy becomes a friend, and a newborn baby is born into the world.

In a choice between love and fear, choose love.

We are always pregnant with a truer version of ourselves.