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
Being a parent gives you historical perspective. You have thoughts about how you fit into a larger generational drama - those who came before and those who will come after.
Americans are good people, and at times we can be wise. But we're often under-informed by media, misinformed by our government and ill-served by both.
In 2004, Kucinich was the only presidential candidate who warned that a war in Iraq would be completely disastrous. I remember how mocked he was when he predicted hand-to-hand combat in Baghdad. I remember Candy Crowley, and other reporters as well, treating his views on the impending war as ridiculous, out there, almost insane.
Sometimes it's easier to love people when there is a healthy distance between us.
People with AIDS, cancer and other illnesses need free nonmedical support services.
Only do what you feel called in your heart to do, and then give all of yourself to the task.
Marriage, like everything else in the world, is holy or unholy depending on the purpose the mind ascribes to it.
It's a fraction of the cost to prevent a war than prosecute a war.
In the East, the guru never calls himself a guru.
In my lifetime, we have lost a President, a Civil Rights leader and a Presidential candidate - all to gun violence.
In 'Healing the Soul of America,' I wrote about Gandhi's notion of soul force in politics and why it matters to stand on your truth.
If anything is naive and lightweight, it's the traditional political conversation.
You can't 'work through worry and fear rationally,' because fear isn't rational!
We incarcerate more African-American men today than were slaves in 1850.