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
I have a gruff side. This is not exactly news... At the same time, anyone who wants to judge me for this can walk a mile in my moccasins. And then we'll talk.
Nobody wants to die feeling that they have not sung their song.
We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transform our lives.
We're often afraid of looking at our shadow because we want to avoid the shame or embarrassment that comes along with admitting mistakes.
Conviction is a force multiplier. If you want something, claim it in your gut. The universe itself responds to your inner certainty.
If you want to attract the coolest man in the world become the coolest woman in the world.
I think that's what we all want on this earth - to feel that at some level we have connected with other human beings.
People want the nation to transform in the same way they want their own lives to transform. If you're interested in transforming your life, you can't just transform some things. You can't try to fix some things, but sweep other things under the rug because it's too hard to face them. And the same is true for a nation.
Once you reach a certain age, you're either slowly dying or slowly being reborn. I want to choose the latter.
You don't want to try to protect yourself from the pain of a crisis. You want to learn everything you can from it.
Magic happens when you tell the universe what you want it to do for you; miracles happen when you ask how you can be of service to the universe.
Inner peace doesn't come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.
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.