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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Seek more opportunities to put more love in the world.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

The world is healed one loving thought at a time.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.