“The Project Angel Food Program’s mission is to nourish the body and spirit of men, women and children affected by HIV/AIDS and other serious illness. The Project Angel Food Program delivers free and nutritious meals prepared with love. We act out of a sense of urgency because hunger and illness cannot wait.”
— Marianne Williamson
“Your relationship to food is but a reflection of your relationship to yourself, as is everything in your life.”
— Marianne Williamson
“Americans are good with to-do lists; just tell us what to do, and we’ll do it. Throughout our history, we have proven that. Colonize. Check. Win our independence. Check. Form a union. Check. Expand to the Pacific. Check. Settle the West. Check. Keep the Union together. Check. Industrialize. Check. Fight the Nazis. Check.”
— Marianne Williamson
“As a cell contains a natural intelligence by which it fosters the healthy functioning of the body, I, too, have natural intelligence that fosters the perfect unfolding of my life.”
— Marianne Williamson
“The universe is conspiring in every moment to bring me happiness and peace.”
— Marianne Williamson
“For many, many people, getting married is one of the most important things they will ever do in the pursuit of happiness.”
— Marianne Williamson
“You label somebody ‘New Age,’ and that’s automatic mockery: ‘She cannot possibly be a serious thinker.’”
— Marianne Williamson
“The fact that people in Hollywood are open to what I teach is not because they’re more desperate than anyone else, but because they’re more touched by it. That’s not their weakness. It’s their strength!”
— Marianne Williamson
“The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.”
— Marianne Williamson
“Nature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings.”
— Marianne Williamson
“I never thought being famous would be wonderful, but my limited exposure to celebrity has shown me the dark side big-time.”
— Marianne Williamson
“The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.”
— Marianne Williamson
“In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.”
— Marianne Williamson
“Just as you wouldn’t leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn’t start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.”
— Marianne Williamson
“Hope lies in having more faith in the power of God to heal us than in the power of anything to hurt or destroy us. In realizing that as children of God we are bigger than our problems, we have the power at last to confront them.”
— Marianne Williamson
“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.”
— Marianne Williamson
“Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.”
— Marianne Williamson
“Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help the desire to serve.”
— Marianne Williamson
“If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.”
— Marianne Williamson
“Love is what we were borne with. Fear is what we learned here.”
— Marianne Williamson
“Birth is violent whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.”
— Marianne Williamson
“Can the purpose of a relationship be to trigger our wounds? In a way, yes, because that is how healing happens; darkness must be exposed before it can be transformed. The purpose of an intimate relationship is not that it be a place where we can hide from our weaknesses, but rather where we can safely let them go. It takes strength of character to truly delve into the mystery of an intimate relationship, because it takes the strength to endure a kind of psychic surgery, an emotional and psychological and even spiritual initiation into the higher Self. Only then can we know an enchantment that lasts.”
— Marianne Williamson
“Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and our abilities were used in a way that served people. We’re compensated by grateful looks in other people’s eyes, whatever material abundance supports us in performing joyfully and at high energy, and the magnificent feeling that we did our bit today to help save the world.”
— Marianne Williamson
“If our emotional stability is based on what other people do or do not do, then we have no stability. If our emotional stability is based on love that is changeless and unalterable, then we attain the stability of God.”
— Marianne Williamson
“If we’re talented at music, that talent is of god. If something makes our heart sing, that’s god’s way of telling us its a contribution he wants us to make. Sharing our gifts is what makes us happy. We’re most powerful and god’s power is most apparent on the earth when we’re happy. A course in miracles teaches that we are only truly happy when we’re doing god’s will. The only thing to be saved from is our own negativity and fear. The crux of salvation in any area is a shift in our sense of purpose. That shift is a miracle, as always we consciously ask for it: ‘Dear god, please give my life some sense of purpose. use me as an instrument of your peace. Use my talents and abilities to spread love. I surrender my job to you. Help me to remember that my real job is to love the world back to health.”
— Marianne Williamson
“We don’t know how to be women because we were taught it was not OK to be girls. Our most natural impulses were thwarted and distorted.”
— Marianne Williamson
“There is nowhere you need go to find God, for God is within you. There is no one you need ask if you are good enough, for He has already established He is exceedingly well pleased.”
— Marianne Williamson
“In fact, ambitious tension actually limits our ability to succeed because it keeps us in a state of contraction emotionally and physically. It seems to give us energy but doesn’t really. Like the white sugar of mental health, there’s a short high followed by a crash. The cultivation of mental rest or surrender is like eating healthy food. It doesn’t give us an immediate rush, but over time it provides a lot more energy.”
— Marianne Williamson
“The return to love is hardly the end of life’s adventure. It’s the real beginning. A course in miracle says we think we have many different problems but we really only have one: denying love is the only problem and embracing it is the only answer.”
— Marianne Williamson
“From a mind filled with infinite love comes the power to create infinite possibilities. We have the power to think in ways that reflect and attract all the love in the world. Such thinking is called enlightenment. Enlightenment is not a process we work toward, but a choice available to us in any instant.”
— Marianne Williamson