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
The voices of fear are so loud today. The voices of love should never shout, but neither should they whisper - not at a time like this.
Imagine the most outrageously positive possibility for your life, claim it, and consider it done.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
You don't need a new life, just a new lens through which to view the one you have.
Speak from your mind and people will hear you with their mind. Speak from your heart and people will hear you with their heart.
Whatever worked in the past, build on it; whatever didn't work in the past, break the chain that binds you to it.
The only way to end a culture of violence is to proactively create a culture of peace.
Pleasure can be used to enslave a people just as effectively as pain.
To the extent we are perceiving anyone's guilt -choosing to focus on the errors of their personality rather than the eternal innocence of their spirit - we're closing our hearts, deflecting a miracle and causing our own inevitable suffering.
Think of the most amazing thing you could possibly do with your life. Then say out loud, 'YES.'
Let's forgive the past and who we were then. Let's embrace the present and who we're capable of becoming. Let's surrender the future and watch miracles unfold.
World conditions challenge us to look beyond the status quo for responses to the pain of our times. We look to powers within as well as powers without. A new, spiritually based social activism is beginning to assert itself. It stems not from hating what is wrong and trying to fight it, but from loving what could be and making the commitment to bring it forth.
I think the media has become incredibly corrupt. We used to have a profound tradition of investigative journalism in the United States. Some journalists were real heroes, such as Bob Woodward who helped uncover the Watergate scandal. But today he is leading the opposite charge, trying to bring down the careers of people and score easy victories. In other words, those who used to bust the status quo have now become the status quo.
The soul is the truth of who we are.