Marianne Williamson World Quotations

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.

We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that's possible and pain that's all too common. We hope for love and success and abundance, but we never quite forget that there is always lurking the possibility of disaster.

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.

Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. the world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.

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.

We go through those circumstances in order to evolve into people who can hold to our loving center no matter what the world throws us. A loving universe makes sure that we go through those things too.

If you know what changes a heart, you know what changes the world.

Love, when it is a sacred quest, is a space of resurrection and repair. It does more than help us survive a soulless world; it helps us to transform.

I believe we are shown the path that is right as soon as we ask for it. Then we must live in the world and in some way express what we have learned.

When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom.

The thinking of the world leads us to think shallowly and act too quickly.

There will be no peace in the world until there is peace in our hearts.

We can't look to the world to restore our worth; we're 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.

We are here to repair the world. I grew up thinking that was what everybody was trying to do.

If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience.

Love will not just heal your life or mine. Love will heal the world.

The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best that is in us. It is only through our own personal awakening that the world can be awakened. We cannot give what we do not have.

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.

Everything connects to everything; therefore, as we change, the world cannot but change with us.

All things show up in the world according to the purposes we ascribe to them.

The world is terrified of joyful women. Make a stand. Be one anyway.

The world loves us when we choose to love the world.

The world won't step into its greatness until we step into ours.

I think there is a place where self-awareness becomes self-preoccupation if you don't take what you have discovered and bring it to bear on the conditions of the world.

A change of heart leads to change in behavior, and a change in behavior leads to changing the world.

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.

There is no greater gift to future generations than that we do the work God has asked us to do: love one another, that the world might be made right.

The world is healed one loving thought at a time.

The power to be at peace - not because of anything your physical senses perceive, and sometimes in spite of what your physical senses perceive - is the power to help heal this world miraculously.

We shouldn't come up with a pseudo-spiritual excuse for turning away from the pain of the world.

There is simply too much unnecessary suffering in our world. And we should see that as a national security risk, by the way. Given enough time, desperate people will tend to do desperate things. At a certain point you won't be able to build enough prisons or enough bombs to eradicate the effects of all that violence inside so many hearts.

Creating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don't want.

Yes, we see that there are problems in the world. But we believe in a universal force that, when activated by the human heart, has the power to make all things right.

If you want to attract the coolest man in the world become the coolest woman in the world.

The U.S. incarcerates more of its people than any nation in the world, or any nation in history.

Prayer enables us to transform the world because it transforms us.

Yes, women are homemakers, and the entire earth is our home. Yes, we are here to take care of the children, and every child in the world is one of our own.

I trust life not because I trust the world, but because I trust the God who lives in my heart.

The world as we know it is falling apart at the seams, because it's an inadequate container for the truth of who we are.

The highest level of prayer is not a prayer for anything. It is a deep and profound silence, in which we allow ourselves to be still and know Him. In that silence, we are changed. We are calmed. We are illumined. Prayer is meant to dissolve the worldly focus, to dissolve our sense of a separate self, to help us detach from an insane world order. We pray that He might flood our minds. Prayer is like pouring hot water on an ice cube, melting the cold and encrusted thought forms that still surround our hearts.

No matter what is happening in the world of appearances, beyond the veil of illusion there is love and only Love.

We are always impacting the world...through our presence, energy, interactions - what kind of impact are we having?

I'm not bowled over by how different all the world's religions are - I'm bowled over by how similar they are.

In all the huge and amazing and infinitely varied world--there is only one you.

In the Kabbala, it says that we receive the light in order to impart the light, and thus we repair the world.

Seek more opportunities to put more love in the world.

There is a point at which we begin to receive a diminishing return on the accumulation of sacred knowledge unless we use it to at least try to improve the world.

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

A holy relationship is where the brokenness and wounds of the world are not escaped so much as as transformed by love, not hidden from but risen above.

The only thing we have to give to the world is our own grasp on it.

I used to feel like I was waiting for someone to discover me, to 'produce' me, like Lana Turner at the drugstore. Utlimately I realized that the person I was waiting for was myself. If we wait for the world's permission to shine, we will never receive it.

After decades of declining influence on the affairs of the world, there is once again a widespread consideration of spritual principles as an antidote to the pain of our times.

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

We find our happiness to the extent to which we use our minds to bless the world, for that is the natural use of the mind. It is the reason we were born.

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

The world is in trouble. Many have prayed. God sent help. God sent you.

Sobriety itself is today's high, for it is ultimately in the most centered consciousness that we find our power to transcend the world.

If we do not like what we see in the world, we must face what we don't like in ourselves. As we change, the world will change with us.

We're hallucinating. And that's what this world is: a mass hallucination, where fear seems more real than love. Fear is an illusion. Our craziness, paranoia, anxiety and trauma are literally all imagined.

The worlds of Truth (love) and illusion (fear) are like parallel universes; with every thought we make a choice which one to inhabit

I think the vast majority of Americans would have supported military action to stop the second plane from hitting the World Trade Center, if that had been possible. I would have been among them.

There is a dichotomy between people who feel economic principles should order human civilization and people who believe humanitarian principles should order human civilization. That essential disagreement is underlying practically all our world drama.

From a pure metaphysical perspective, there is no world outside ourselves. So, at the deepest level, the state of the planet is more a reflection of the consciousness of mankind than the consciousness of mankind is a reflection of world events.

Any time we read a newspaper or take any look at the world around us, we are aware of the cruelty and violence that dominates our world.

Newtonian physics is over. You don't act on the world to change the world. You realize the world is a projection of your inner self. If you change, the world changes.

Once you know that every moment and every person and every situation has something to teach you, you're a student all day. You know it's the depth of your observation that is the issue - not how much the world has to show you.

The fate of the world rests on this one thing: our capacity to actualize our spiritual potential, and quickly.

If we come to see that this world does not have the final word, then we open our mind and therefore our entire lives to experience the possibility of infinite possibilities.

To the extent to which we believe in this world, we are heir to the laws which rule this place.

The world as it is perceived by most people, is a world of finite resources.

If you're getting your guidance about who you are and what to do with your life only from the external world, then by definition you'll be led away from your authentic truth. Your authentic truth isn't in the material world. It's counterintuitive, but you have more power in the world when you know you're not of it.