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
Unforgiveness is like drinking poison yourself and waiting for the other person to die.
We Liberals like to think our thoughts aren't controlled. We pride ourselves on our independent thinking. We know we shouldn't believe everything we read. We realize the media is skewed, we know it's owned by a small group of people, we realize it's biased, etc.
'Accepting the Christ' is merely a shift in self-perception.
I didn't realize that running as an independent would be perceived as a threat to the Democrats.
I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.
In all the great religious systems, there are divine beings who represent the feminine face of the divine.
We are material beings for but a moment in time, but we are spiritual beings forever.
Spiritual growth and spirituality always seem suspect to some people.
People with AIDS, cancer and other illnesses need free nonmedical support services.
Sometimes it's easier to love people when there is a healthy distance between us.
An educated child earns more later in life, knows how to keep their own children from dying, produces more food, is less likely to get AIDS, and in the case of boys, is less likely to engage in armed civil conflict.
When I was just writing books and giving lectures, if people disagreed, they just didn't buy your book or attend your lectures. But, if you're leading a congregation, people feel they have the right to tell you what you should or shouldn't talk about. And that hasn't always been easy for me.
When I went to college in the 1970s, the Women's Liberation movement was all the buzz.
As citizens of the United States, we are stewards of this magnificent thing called democracy.