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
In all the great religious systems, there are divine beings who represent the feminine face of the divine.
I have lived enough to know great things will unfold for me externally only if I allow them to unfold for me internally.
We are living at an extraordinary time in human history. And for many of us things are great. Things are great for me.
Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?
Great people are not people who have never fallen down. Greatness has to do with how you get back up.
The world won't step into its greatness until we step into ours.
Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.
The universe is intentional. It is always moving in the direction of greater love, regardless whether or not we consciously align with that love.
Go for greatness. Anything else is a waste of time.
You don't have to pray to attract great things, because great things are attracted to you already. Pray that you won't throw them away once they get here.
In every heart there is an inner room, where we can hold our greatest treasures and our deepest pain.
Daily life is the enemy of greatness.
Priests, ministers and rabbis are asking where the children are going. Slowly but surely, they're seeing that people are hungry for something beyond the doctrine. It isn't that they don't want religious truth. But they want the mystical core, the heart of the religious truth.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.