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
Love is who we are, and when we deviate from that love we're deviating from our ultimate, essential, eternal reality.
Love, when it is a sacred quest, is a space of resurrection and repair. It does more than help us survive a soulless world; it helps us to transform.
I think every writer lives for the thought that there will be a moment when somebody reads something on the page and says, "Yes!"
If you know what changes a heart, you know what changes the world.
Every act of kindness on your part is a boost to your own immune system.
Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don't yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving.
I think that every moment you succumb to cynicism, you're taking energy away from change.
Bless more; blame less.
Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.
The meaningful question is never what we did yesterday, but what we have learned from it and are doing today.
I think optimism is a moral imperative.
God created the law of free will, and God created the law of cause and effect. And he himself will not violate the law. We need to be thinking less in terms of what God did and more in terms of whether or not we are following those laws.
In every heart there is an inner room, where we can hold our greatest treasures and our deepest pain.
As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.