The top of one mountain is always the bottom of another.
— Marianne Williamson
Being a mother makes everything more urgent.
Institutional memory is important in any organization, but so are fresh ideas.
Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.
Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before.
The 'Course in Miracles' says one day you will realize that death is not the punishment but the reward. And it says that birth is not the beginning of life but a continuation. And physical death is not the end of life but a continuation.
Spiritual growth and spirituality always seem suspect to some people.
The daughters of God don't brake for jerks.
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!
Politics should not be the least heart-filled thing we do, it should be the most heart-filled thing we do.
Christ is born into the world through each of us.
Would a man ever be called vain for speaking his mind?
One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet once I did, I had an unexpected surprise. Rather than self-hatred, I was flooded with compassion for myself because I realized the pain necessary to develop that coping mechanism to begin with.
The undue influence of money on our politics is like a cancer underlying other cancers, the issue underlying all other issues.
I would never, ever in my life say, 'I want to go to Washington to heal the soul of Washington.'
There's nothing more powerful than a woman who knows how to contain her power and not let it leak, standing firmly within it in mystery and silence. A woman who talks too much sheds her allure.
Relationships are eternal. The 'separation' is another chapter in the relationship. Often, letting go of the old form of the relationship becomes a lesson in pure love much deeper than any would have learned had the couple stayed together.
Love is the intuitive knowledge of our hearts.
America won't be saved because one or 10 people stand up. It will be saved because millions of us stand up.
I don't think I represent some new category. I think I do represent kind of a freethinker.
An angry generation will not bring peace to the world; I do believe that.
We have allowed an unholy alliance of government - the new monarchy - and corporate influence - the new aristocracy - to take control of events in a way that would have made our Founders shudder.
When America does what's right, it's such a light on this planet.
When we are truly aware of our spiritual glory, a varicose vein or two is not that big a deal.
If anything is naive and lightweight, it's the traditional political conversation.
When God created the world, he didn't draw a line between Canada and America.
In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.
Martin Luther King said it was time to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of human civilization. I don't think anyone is calling Martin Luther King a New Age woo-woo.
To me, drone use is a moral issue.
We're often afraid of looking at our shadow because we want to avoid the shame or embarrassment that comes along with admitting mistakes.
Throughout my career I have been an advocate for women, in all aspects of their lives.
Most women I know are priestesses and healers... We are, all of us, sisters of a mysterious order.
The Western world is having an identity crisis.
Priests, ministers and rabbis are asking where the children are going. Slowly but surely, they're seeing that people are hungry for something beyond the doctrine. It isn't that they don't want religious truth. But they want the mystical core, the heart of the religious truth.
Being a parent gives you historical perspective. You have thoughts about how you fit into a larger generational drama - those who came before and those who will come after.
There is no amount of money I can make which could buffer my daughter from the horrors that will explode in our society if we do not address the huge amount of suffering in our midst.
I'm a provocateur.
A lot of my traditional audience does not appreciate my foray into politics.
I didn't realize that running as an independent would be perceived as a threat to the Democrats.
As citizens of the United States, we are stewards of this magnificent thing called democracy.
Any man who holds a woman back is not a man a woman can afford to be with.
You've committed no sins, just mistakes.
Religion is like a map. The route isn't important. It's the destination that matters.
Politics is in a crisis because it's separated from our deep humanity.
Look at Fukushima. Should we or should we not agree with the U.S. government that none of that radioactive energy is making its way here? Hello!
America has swerved from its ethical center.
Any conversation which does not include the context of the journey of the heart is by definition untrue to who we are as human beings.
When you've written 10 books and have six on the New York Times best-seller list - and four have been No. 1 - I think you have a right to be a member of Congress.
I think of prayer as a spiritual lifeline back to where I most want to be.
When you turn your life over to God, you don't give up the drama; you give up the cheap drama.
