I have a gruff side. This is not exactly news... At the same time, anyone who wants to judge me for this can walk a mile in my moccasins. And then we'll talk.
— Marianne Williamson
People who attend support groups who have been diagnosed with a life-challenging illness live on average twice as long after diagnosis as people who don't.
I never thought being famous would be wonderful, but my limited exposure to celebrity has shown me the dark side big-time.
Today, most Americans are too cynical, or tired, or both, to even approximate our Founders' courageous repudiation of injustice.
'Accepting the Christ' is merely a shift in self-perception.
The basic premise of 'A Course in Miracles' is that it teaches us to relinquish thoughts based on fear and to accept instead thoughts based on love.
I'm always honored to be speaking alongside Deepak Chopra.
You label somebody 'New Age,' and that's automatic mockery: 'She cannot possibly be a serious thinker.'
The world cannot evolve if girls refuse to become women.
Doug Motel makes 'conscious comedy'. He makes me laugh, and he makes me think.
The world is a holographic universe, with every piece containing the whole.
We tend to lack humility toward love, to patronize it rather than bow before it, to put mundane considerations before the emotional need to hold someone in our arms.
We experience God to the extent to which we love, forgive, and focus on the good in others and ourselves.
Nothing is so dangerous for our security as large groups of desperate people.
Each of us has an inner room where we can visit to be cleansed of fear-based thoughts and feelings. This room, the holy of holies, is a sanctuary of light.
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.
At their peak, religion and psychotherapy become one.
The AIDS virus is not more powerful than God.
I know I'm not a great writer. I'm an extremely gifted oral communicator, but when it comes to writing, I'm just a beginner.
I don't know anybody who doesn't have a lost decade.
Today's average American is more apt to rebel against a tennis shoe not coming in the right color than against the slow erosion of our democratic freedom.
By my mid-20s, I was a total mess.
Anytime you try to be a loving person, you're doing your part to save the world.
To me, when I think of New Age, I think of crystals and rainbows and platitudes.
The press creates a caricature.
We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be?
Everything we do is infused with the energy in which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we are peaceful, life will be peaceful.
We have the same soul at 60 that we had at 40, and the same soul at 25 that we had when we were 5.
Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life.
War is just an effect, not a cause.
It's a fraction of the cost to prevent a war than prosecute a war.
I believe that hunger for a 'lost dimension' of experience is a natural yearning in all of us, and it doesn't go away just because we ignore it. It is evidenced among other places in the millions of children and adults who obsessively read the 'Harry Potter' books. It is said that fiction is where someone gets to tell the truth.
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
Love knows how to form itself. God will do his work if we do ours. Our job is to prepare ourselves for love. When we do, love finds us every time.
Spirit is impervious to illness.
Movies can be instruments of enlightenment.
Gay men in a very real way created my career.
In Taoist philosophy, 'yin' is the feminine principle, representing the forces of earth, while 'yang' is the masculine principle, representing spirit.
I went into therapy several times, but it rarely made an impact.
People with AIDS, cancer and other illnesses need free nonmedical support services.
In the East, the guru never calls himself a guru.
Unforgiveness is like drinking poison yourself and waiting for the other person to die.
Buckminster Fuller was one of those world historic geniuses who reminded us of the extraordinary things that are possible, and inspires all of us to set about doing them!
An enchanted love, an awakened love, between two people is a blessing on the entire world.
Children are not children. They are just younger people.
Enchanted partnership begins with the conscious understanding, on the part of two people, that the purpose of their relationship is not so much material as spiritual, and the internal skills demanded by it are prodigious.
The human race is evolving to the realization that what is happening on the level of consciousness both precedes and determines what happens in the world.
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.
People crave comfort, people crave connection, people crave community.
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.
