Marianne Williamson Quotes

Your outer world is a reflection of your inner world.

I think that everything in the world around us is a reflection of what is going on inside of us. So each of us as an individual creates a life - we draw to us certain people and events and circumstances that reflect what's going on inside of us, so we can literally look at our life and see a mirror of our own consciousness. And if that's true on an individual level, it's also true that what's going on in the world in a bigger way is a reflection of the collective consciousness.

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

Your inner world reflects your outer world.

Look at the world as a reflection of your inner state.

Man is but the place where I stand.

The biggest (and hardest) lesson I've learned in life is that the external world is just a reflection of the world within.

The world you see outside of you will always be a reflection of what you have inside of you.

Your world and everything in it is a reflection of your own mental attitude toward yourself.

Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him?

It's how you view the life inside you that creates the life outside of you. Everyday.

You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore.

But it’s only by having some distance from the world that you can see it whole, and understand what you should be doing with it.

When, by meditation, we withdraw restless thoughts from the lake of the mind, we behold our soul, a perfect reflection of Spirit.

He felt like a man who, after straining his eyes to peer into the remote distance, finds what he was seeking at his very feet. All his life he had been looking over the heads of those around him, while he had only to look before him without straining his eyes. p 1320

I spend all my time trying to keep thoughts away and ignore them....But here you are, trying to remember your own life, writing your thoughts down so that you don't forget. I suddenly realized what it would be like not to know, not to remember.

(As human beings) We see everything everything in a glass, darkly. Sometimes we can peer through the glass and catch a glimpse of what is on the other side. If we were to polish the glass clean, we'd see much more. But then we would no longer see ourselves.

I always take the same perspective with each new adventure. I put myself in the position of being at the end of my life looking back. Then I ask myself if what I am doing is important to me.

Everyday I look in the mirror and make sure I don't pinch myself so I don't wake up. I don't take it for granted. All the time I say: 'Why me?'

We are not apt to think of the importance of events as they transpire with us, but we feel the importance of them afterwards.

He who has no pleasure in looking up, is not fit so much as to look down.

Everything we do, our entire interior monologue, is prayer.

Theoretically there is no absolute proof that one's awakening in the morning (the finding oneself again in the saddle of one's personality) is not really a quite unprecedented event, a perfectly original birth.