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
Enlightenment is the only real antidote to the world's despair.
Whether we love, or close our hearts to love, is a mental choice we make, every moment of every day.
Envision possibility. Don't worry who else believes in it; the universe is only looking for instructions from you.
The fact is, there are Fortune 500 companies that have been founded during recessions.
There's a collective knowing that a dimension of reality exists beyond the material plane, and that sense of knowing is causing a mystical resurgence on the planet today. It's not just children who are looking for a missing piece. It is a very mature outlook to question the nature of our reality.
We will make love an art and we will love like artists.
Spiritual progress is like a detoxification.
We can't look to the world to restore our worth; we're here to restore our worth to the world. The world outside us can reflect our glory, but it cannot create it. It cannot crown us. Only God can crown us, and he already has.
There will be no peace in the world until there is peace in our hearts.
The universe is already programmed to give each of us a year of happiness. Our challenge lies in programming ourselves to receive it.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
The issue of spiritual power is to meet the limited mortal circumstance with unlimited thought.
Within the miraculous brew of universal creativity , all you desire already exists. Spend five minutes each morning with your eyes closed, living in that dimension. Allow images to unfold without censor. Feel yourself living the most magnificent life -- a life of joy, creativity and love -- as you grow inwardly into the person you need to be in order to manifest it effortlessly.
The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.