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
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.
The path to self-esteem lies in getting over yourself. There is nothing to esteem about our smaller dramas; it's our commitment to something beyond ourselves that is truly estimable to ourself and others.
If we do not like what we see in the world, we must face what we don't like in ourselves. As we change, the world will change with us.
Often miracles are happening right in front of our eyes, but we think they should look different, so we miss them though they're right there.
It's difficult to be alive in America today and truly be in denial anymore. It's not hip to be unconscious or uninvolved. One of our great strengths is that we're an optimistic people, but that doesn't mean we don't have sad days.
I think the greatest gift we can give our children is to show them that devotion to God's purposes - love for all beings - is the center of all right living.
There are people today who look to fear to take us out of fear. But I believe that there are many, many more people who would look to love.
I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering.
Our most meaningful conversations go on late at night when we're on the phone with our friends or talking to our lovers.