Quotes from Marianne Williamson

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? Your playing small doesn't serve the world. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

The crucifixion of the Goddess - the invalidation of feminine beliefs and values - lies at the heart of all our painful dramas. But crucifixion is merely a prelude to resurrection, and we are now living at the beginning stages of the resurrection of the Goddess.

When we remember our royal inheritance, men will become our true partners, our kings.

It is not your job to seek for love, it is your job to seek within yourself all the barriers who hold against its coming.

I resist all temptation today to judge how I think others should behave. I cannot know the deeper forces at work within anyone's heart. My deliverance comes from accepting all people, not judging or controlling them.

It is not the radicalism of hate that is our biggest danger today; our biggest danger is that we lack the radicalism of love.

We have the opportunity to forge a marriage between the masculine and feminine, more potent and more vibrant than any we have experienced on the earth for ages - more beautiful, perhaps, than any the earth has ever known.

A Course in Miracles says that the most effective way to teach a child is not by saying 'Don't do that,' but 'Do this.' We don't reach the light through endless analysis of the dark. We reach the light by choosing the light. Light means understanding. Through understanding, we are healed.

The real war is not without, but within: between ego-based fear and spirit-based love.

Someone with whom we have a lifetime's worth of lessons to learn is someone whose presence in our lives forces us to grow.

May I have the strength to forgive those who've betrayed me.

Do terrorists hate us just some of the time? Do they have a casual commitment to their cause? Do they take less than seriously the goal of full manifestation of their worldview? The only way we will triumph over hate is to become as deeply committed to love as some people are committed to hate, as deeply devoted to expressing our love as some people are devoted to expressing their hate, and as firm in our conviction that love is our mission as some are that hate is theirs.