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
When we are truly aware of our spiritual glory, a varicose vein or two is not that big a deal.
We experience God to the extent to which we love, forgive, and focus on the good in others and ourselves.
We live in a world of easy friendships - people here for you when it's easy, 'so-sorry-but-I-have-an-errand-to-do-now' when it's not.
Major political parties have a role, but they are incapable of initiating fundamental change because they are fundamentally tied to the status quo. They are the status quo.
God is the electricity and we are the lamps.
The universe is not only self-organizing, it is also self-correcting.
But beauty itself is not given to us by anyone; it is a power we have within us from the gate, a radiance inside us.
Painful experiences are not meant to linger. They are meant to teach us what they need to teach us, and then dissolve.
There is a lot of sixties-bashing going on these days that I don't agree with at all. I feel that extremely important ideals were brought to the forefront of the collective consciousness at that time. Granted, drug use was so pervasive that our generation did not as a group have the capacity to manifest our ideals to any great extent. But many of the people who were young in the sixties and who were most touched by that collective ethos are still touched.
We experience who we really are, and what it is we are meant to do, in any moment when we pour our love into the universe.
Cynicism is just an excuse for not helping.
We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
The more we allow ourselves to enjoy, the more reasons we find to be joyful.
The universe takes us as seriously as we take it.