Marianne Williamson Forgiveness Quotations

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

Anytime you try to be a loving person, you're doing your part to save the world.

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts.

Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.

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.

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Become more accepting. With every interaction, surrender any tendency to judge another person. Pray for a more accepting heart.

Use each interaction to be the best, most powerful version of yourself.

If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.

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.

Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.

Our key to transforming anything lies in our ability to reframe it.

Forgiveness is the stroke of God within us. The American people haven't ignored what he did. He asked for forgiveness and the American people gave it to him. Theirs is the higher morality.

Never think you can separate who you are from what you're doing.

Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life.

Forgiveness does not mean that we suppress anger; forgiveness means that we have asked for a miracle: the ability to see through mistakes that someone has made to the truth that lies in all of our hearts. Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness. Attack thoughts towards others are attack thoughts towards ourselves. The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.