Marianne Williamson Quotes

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

The great solution to all human problems is individual inner transformation.

Brother, stand the pain. Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping. That way a thorn expands to a rose.

We neither need a political revolution nor a religious revolution. What we need is an inner transformation in human beings.

I hope to contribute to a global warming of hearts and a climate change in human consciousness.

It's in that convergence of spiritual people becoming active and active people becoming spiritual that the hope of humanity now rests.

John McCutcheon is not only one of the best musicians in the USA, but also a great singer, songwriter, and song leader. And not just incidentally, he is committed to helping hard-working people everywhere to organize and push this world in a better direction.

Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light.

I'm not sure if my involvement in causes, benefits, marches, and demonstrations has made a huge difference, but I know one thing: that involvement has connected me with the good people: people with the live hearts, the live eyes, the live heads.

If we would change the world, we must first change people's thoughts.

The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world.

Only great pain is, as the teacher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit...I doubt whether such pain improves us-but I do know it deepens us.

In the search for our best selves, several questions will guide our thinking: Am I what I want to be? Am I closer to the Savior today than I was yesterday? Will I be closer yet tomorrow? Do I have the courage to change for the better?

For me, making any kind of resolution or saying, "I'm doing this!" can only cause pain, to get very deep.

I just want to be there in love and in justice and in truth and in commitment to others, so that we can make of this old world a new world.

You can change your life with a simple shift of attention. But to make that simple shift, you have to find your heart. It's the only way. Accept yourself, then transcend yourself.

I want to suffer and be purified by suffering!

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

Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.

The fearsome blessing of that hard time continues to work itself out in my life in the same way we're told the universe is still hurtling through outer space under the impact of the great cosmic explosion.... I think grace sometimes explodes into our lives like that-sending our pain, terror, astonishment hurtling through inner space until by grace they become Orion, Cassiopeia, Polaris to give us our bearings, to bring us into something like full being at last.

The interesting thing that happens for many people when they first start meditating is that they'll be doing it for a few months, and they will begin to change, but the experience is so subtle that they're not even aware of it.

Darkness is a lower energy than light, and when you bring light to the presence of darkness you don't have to warn it, you don't have to tell it that it has to get away. It can't survive. Light dissolves darkness. And so does love dissolve hate and so does joy dissolve sadness and so does faith dissolve doubt and so on.

You cannot change the world if you don't change your own world first.

The youth are the catalysts for real change.

As you take steps to expand your awareness, you will naturally find yourself harnessing your mind's infinite power to create greater health, happiness, and love in your life.