Marianne Williamson
Marianne Williamson
Marianne Deborah Williamson is an American spiritual teacher, author and lecturer. She has published eleven books, including four New York Times number one bestsellers. She is the founder of Project Angel Food, a meals-on-wheels program that serves homebound people with AIDS in the Los Angeles area, and the co-founder of The Peace Alliance, a grassroots campaign supporting legislation to establish a United States Department of Peace. She serves on the Board of Directors of the RESULTS organization, which works to...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSelf-Help Author
Date of Birth8 July 1952
CityHouston, TX
CountryUnited States of America
Sometimes we think, "We're the only people who see it this way," but that's really not the case.
Angels are thoughts of God--to pray to an angel is to look to a level of pure thinking, divine thinking, and to ask that it replace our thoughts of fear. (Page 27.)
Every decision you make reflects your evaluation of who you are.
Feminine power isn't something we go out and acquire; it's already within us. It's something we become willing to experience. Something to admit we have
In a choice between love and fear, choose love.
God gives us His strength by giving us His vision of things. Our seeing people as innocent is the only way to achieve God’s peace.
There is, inside all our heads, the ego’s rabid attack dog. It is purely vicious toward others and toward ourselves as well. Learning to control that dog, and ultimately to end its life, is the process and purpose of enlightened relationships.
When you carry yesterday's thinking into today, you program tomorrow to be like yesterday.
By the time something reaches the cover of Time magazine, it's old news anyway.
In the Holy Relationship, it's understood that we all have unhealed places, and that healing is the purpose of our being with another person. We don't hide our weaknesses, but rather we understand that the relationship is a context for healing through mutual forgiveness.
Fear is not life-giving enough to sustain itself. We can move in the direction of fear only so long before it brings us to our knees, or to our end....
Love is insistent on its own continuation. Every fraction of a second, someone somewhere falls in love, a former enemy becomes a friend, and a newborn baby is born into the world.
Where there is lack, God’s abundance is on the way. Hold on. Have faith. It’s coming.
When the heart is pierced, there is pain, yes, but also an invitation to a greater becoming.