Remarkable Quotes

Marianne Williamson

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who are we to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous.

Actually, who are we not to be.

Your playing small does not serve the world.

There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people won't feel small around you. We were born to manifest the glory that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And when we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

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“Whenever our outer world becomes stuck, it is incumbent upon us to look, not outward, but inward. It is a call to find the places in ourselves where we are holding on to old ways—where we blame others rather than taking personal responsibility for our woes; where we judge others instead of blessing them; where we are hard rather than vulnerable and open and kind.

These issues hold the hidden keys to unlocking our unsolved personal mysteries. To achieve breakthroughs in the external world, we had best achieve internal ones. For the level of consciousness is the level of cause; addressing problems at their cause means addressing them inside our own selves. Addressing problems only on the level of their effects—in the outside world—is failing to address them deeply at all.”

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“Practice kindness and you start to be kind. Practice discipline, and you start to become disciplined. Practice forgiveness, and you start to become forgiving. Practice charity, and you start to become charitable. Practice gentleness, and you start to become gentle.

It doesn’t matter whether you’re in the mood to be gracious to the bus driver today; do it anyway—and watch how it begins to affect your mood. Just push the button of the self you wish to be, and the file appears. It was already there, after all, just waiting to be downloaded. We become gracious when we decide to be gracious. We have the power to generate as well as react to feelings; to hone our personalities as we travel through life. In the words of George Eliot, ‘It is never too late to be what you might have been’. It is never too late to become who we really are.”

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‘The Buddha was born a wealthy prince named Siddharha, whose father wished to protect him from the cruelty and the suffering of life. To this end, he built walls around his palace, only allowing in the pleasures of the material world. But the young Siddhartha instinctively knew that there was more to life than what he saw within the confines of his father’s palace, and he also knew he needed to experience those things in order to become truly human. He left behind his beautiful wife and child, journeying beyond the walls of the palace to encounter human suffering for the first time. And, with that, his journey to enlightenment began.

Ultimately, the Buddha would reveal that untransformed human life is suffering, and out of that revelation would come enlightenment for millions. From his recognition that the palace walls we build around ourselves are merely holding the truth and meaning of human existence at bay came his exhortation to recognise the suffering of the world. We must open our hearts before suffering, he claimed, in order to become genuine channels for its transcendence. We live in a prison – not a palace – when our hearts have not yet cracked open.

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"If you have a problem but you are stuck in blaming others or trying to duck out of your own responsibility, then helpful forces are repelled. If you have a problem but you try to keep your heart open—you do your best to deal with it, take personal responsibility, remain vulnerable—then others will have a natural tendency to reach out to you and offer help. Just knowing you have a problem will not inspire others to help you; how you're handling it is what will do that.

Highest solutions do not come from you; they come INTO you and THROUGH YOU. It is not your ability to figure things out, put the blame elsewhere, or hire the right lawyers that ultimately guarantee divine right action. Rather, it is our surrender to the flow of divinity that allow divinity to flow through us."