Marianne Williamson Quotes

Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

I think if a character appeals to you, there are certain parts of yourself will come to the fore and other parts that will play down.

Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.

My experience is that the universal is the personal. If you can get past your navel-gazing into the deepest part of yourself as a writer, you find everyone - we're all there.

I think people will discover themselves in 'Ankahee.'

Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.

Your life is a mirror. Life gives us not what we want. Life gives us who we are

You don't throw your life away Going Inside You get to know who's watching you And besides you resides in your body

I wasn't really testing it on myself as much as I was learning from other people about what it meant to live and love with your whole heart, and then thinking, oh my god, I'm not doing that.

Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important.

I think this is what college is all about: self-examination and dealing with those questions of "Who am I?"

In the quiet moments of your day, what do you think and do? When you are with your Self and no one else, how does life proceed for you? Who are you when you are alone? Self-creation is a Holy Experience. It is sacred. It is you, deciding Who You Are.

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.

In relationship with others, it is only you mirrored.

People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night.

Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood or a yearning toward a future of your own - only be attentive to what is arising within you, and place that above everything you perceive around you. What is happening in your innermost self is worthy of your entire love; somehow you must find a way to work at it.

I wonder from these thousand of "me's", which one am I? Listen to my cry, do not drown my voice I am completely filled with the thought of you. Don't lay broken glass on my path I will crush it into dust. I am nothing, just a mirror in the palm of your hand, reflecting your kindness, your sadness, your anger. If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower I will pitch my tent in your shadow. Only your presence revives my withered heart. You are the candle that lights the whole world and I am an empty vessel for your light. Rumi - "Hidden Music

I don't want to get so lost in thinking about me and talking about me all the time in interviews. It's so nice to unwind and just look at other things and get out of yourself. It's hard to detach myself from myself without neglecting myself. You know what I mean? I don't want to get in to the habit of thinking about my career because when it comes down to it, it's not really that important. I could die tomorrow and the world would go on.

Am I the woman I think I am, the woman I want to be? More importantly, am I the woman the Savior needs me to be?

You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet.

I'm always thinking about what my identity is.

I don't believe I've ever truly been in love because I don't believe that I've known myself well enough in the past to allow someone to love me.