Marianne Williamson (b.1952) is a spiritual teacher, author and lecturer. She has published ten books, including four New York Times #1 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 grass roots 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 end poverty in the United States and around the world. Williamson is also the force behind Sister Giant, a series of seminars and teaching sessions that provides women with the information and tools needed to be political candidates. Through these seminars, she encourages women to run for office and align their politics with their spiritual values.
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The quality of your life doesn’t emerge from what happens, but from how fully you show up for what happens.
—Marianne Williamson
There is a plan for our lives – God’s plan – and it oversees exactly where we are and where we need to be going. As soon as we have learned to live most brightly in our present conditions, new and better ones will arrive immediately.
—Marianne Williamson
Everyone you meet will bring you greater peace or greater anxiety, depending on what you choose to bring them.
—Marianne Williamson
The people who have achieved more than you, in any area, are only a half step ahead of you in time. Bless them and praise their gifts, and bless and praise your own. The world would be less rich without their contributions, and it would be less rich without yours. There’s more than room for everyone; in fact, there’s a need for everyone.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: People, Rich
Most people limit their lives by censoring their desires.
—Marianne Williamson
When we accept ourselves exactly as we are, and where we are, we have more energy to give to life. We are not wasting our time trying to make things different.
—Marianne Williamson
The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.
—Marianne Williamson
In understanding ourselves, we come to understand the world. In allowing ourselves to heal, we become the healers of the world. In praying for peace, we become bringers of peace.
—Marianne Williamson
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
—Marianne Williamson
The issue is not that our problems are too big but that our imaginations are too small.
—Marianne Williamson
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
—Marianne Williamson
Topics: Miracles
Sometimes it’s that which shatters us that liberates us.
—Marianne Williamson
The fear-mind is your own self-hatred posing as your best friend.
—Marianne Williamson
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