Marianne Williamson

People on a spiritual path - personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga and so forth - are the last people who should be sitting out the social and political issues of our day.

The holidays are only holy if we make them so.

Prayer is the medium of miracles; in whatever way works for you, pray right now.

The same group of New York pseudo-intellectuals who've put down prayer are the same ones who put down L.A.

Spiritual growth and spirituality always seem suspect to some people.

When we are truly aware of our spiritual glory, a varicose vein or two is not that big a deal.

I think of prayer as a spiritual lifeline back to where I most want to be.

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.

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.

I've never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching.

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

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.