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
A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
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.
In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
The basic premise of 'A Course in Miracles' is that it teaches us to relinquish thoughts based on fear and to accept instead thoughts based on love.
I never thought being famous would be wonderful, but my limited exposure to celebrity has shown me the dark side big-time.
I've known Dennis Kucinich for a long time, and I don't think I have illusions about him. Sometimes I find him pompous, male chauvinistic, intellectually unbending. But he is a good man, and a serious one.
There is nothing that a military machine can do to work a miracle.
Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world.
Today, most Americans are too cynical, or tired, or both, to even approximate our Founders' courageous repudiation of injustice.
You get enough people agreeing in consciousness that Mexico is a dangerous place, and that dangerous thought will make it so.