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
We are material beings for but a moment in time, but we are spiritual beings forever.
Life is not a piece of tragic fiction in which, at the end of the reading, we all get up and go out for drinks.
I know I'm not a great writer. I'm an extremely gifted oral communicator, but when it comes to writing, I'm just a beginner.
We have the same soul at 60 that we had at 40, and the same soul at 25 that we had when we were 5.
To me, when I think of New Age, I think of crystals and rainbows and platitudes.
Today's average American is more apt to rebel against a tennis shoe not coming in the right color than against the slow erosion of our democratic freedom.
Unforgiveness is like drinking poison yourself and waiting for the other person to die.
We have allowed an unholy alliance of government - the new monarchy - and corporate influence - the new aristocracy - to take control of events in a way that would have made our Founders shudder.
The Project Angel Food Program's mission is to nourish the body and spirit of men, women and children affected by HIV/AIDS and other serious illness. The Project Angel Food Program delivers free and nutritious meals prepared with love. We act out of a sense of urgency because hunger and illness cannot wait.
The man I love may decide tomorrow that he loves me no more - but if my heart remains open, I will endure the storm.
Any man who holds a woman back is not a man a woman can afford to be with.
Love is the intuitive knowledge of our hearts.
I think of prayer as a spiritual lifeline back to where I most want to be.
Family relationships trigger childhood wounds, and those wounds often trump our rational thinking. We can't 'rationally' transcend the kind of primal pain that such relationships can arouse.