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
Once we truly understand that God's will is that we be happy, we no longer feel the need to ask for anything other than that God's will be done.
Emmet Fox was one of the world's greatest metaphysical teachers. His works have contributed profoundly to the spiritual understanding of millions of people, including myself.
For many people, God is a frightening idea. Asking God for help doesn't seem very comforting if we think of Him as something outside ourselves, or capricious, or judgmental. But God is love and He dwells within us. We are created in His image, or mind, which means that we are extensions of His love, or Sons and Daughters of God.
The role of a leader is not to rule over other people, but to hold a space for their own genius.
The U.S. incarcerates more of its people than any nation in the world, or any nation in history.
I embrace each moment as an opportunity for a miracle.
Unless we can be like children, we can't be happy.
Our religious institutions have far too often become handmaidens of the status quo, while the genuine religious experience is anything but that. True religion is by nature disruptive of what has been, giving birth to the eternally new.
I honor my grief. I try to be kinder to myself. I give myself time to move through and to process whatever is making me sad.
We have to wage peace. That's the law of the spirit is the waging of peace, because if we simply seek to manage the effects of hatred, which does need to be done, of course. But if all we do is manage the effects of hatred, then hatred will simply stalk us the next decade or the next generation. We need to dismantle hatred itself.
There is no peace without forgiveness.
The masculine DOES while the feminine IS. Major in the feminine, but minor in the masculine.
Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for.
There can be no darkness where I provide the light.