Marianne Williamson

American Author
Marianne Williamson is an American author, speaker, and political activist. She has written several self-help books, including the bestseller 'A Return to Love.' Williamson has also been involved in charity work, founding organizations like Center for Living and Project Angel Food. She has run for political office multiple times, including for the 2020 and 2024 Democratic presidential nominations.

About Marianne Williamson

Marianne Deborah Williamson (born July 8, 1952) is an American author, speaker, and political activist. She began her professional career as spiritual leader of the Church of Today, a Unity Church in Warren, Michigan. Williamson has written several self-help books, including A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles in 1992, which became a New York Times Best Seller. She was launched into prominence by Oprah Winfrey, being a frequent guest on her daytime talk show and becoming known as her “spiritual advisor”.

Williamson ran unsuccessfully as an independent for California’s 33rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives in 2014, finishing fourth with 13.2% of the vote. She ran for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020, eventually dropping out and endorsing Bernie Sanders. She ran in the 2024 Democratic Party presidential primaries, challenging incumbent President Joe Biden. Williamson’s presidential platform calls for an end to the war on drugs, a federal minimum wage increase, reparations for racial injustice, addressing climate change, and creating a U.S. Department of Peace. On February 7, 2024, she announced she had suspended her campaign after receiving 2.9% of the vote in the Nevada Democratic primary, but on February 28, 2024, Williamson re-entered the presidential race after placing third in the Michigan Democratic primary, receiving 3% of the vote. However, on June 11, 2024, Williamson suspended her campaign. On July 2, 2024, Williamson re-entered the presidential race amidst calls for Biden to drop out after his June 27 debate performance, before later dropping out again on July 29.

Williamson has been actively involved with charity work, founding such organizations as Center for Living in 1987, Project Angel Food in 1989, and the Peace Alliance in 1998. She sits on the board for RESULTS, a nonprofit group which is dedicated to finding long-term solutions to poverty.

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Marianne Williamson is an American author, speaker, and political activist who has written several self-help books, including the bestseller ‘A Return to Love’, and has been involved in various charitable organizations.

Marianne Williamson began her professional career as the spiritual leader of the Church of Today, a Unity Church in Warren, Michigan. She later became known as Oprah Winfrey’s ‘spiritual advisor’ after appearing frequently on her daytime talk show.

Marianne Williamson has run for political office, including an unsuccessful independent run for California’s 33rd congressional district in 2014 and multiple runs for the Democratic nomination for president, in 2020 and 2024. Her presidential platforms have included calls for ending the war on drugs, increasing the federal minimum wage, addressing climate change, and creating a U.S. Department of Peace.

Marianne Williamson has founded several charitable organizations, including the Center for Living in 1987, Project Angel Food in 1989, and the Peace Alliance in 1998. She also sits on the board of RESULTS, a nonprofit group dedicated to finding long-term solutions to poverty.

Marianne Williamson was born on July 8, 1952.

Marianne Williamson’s presidential platform has included calls for an end to the war on drugs, a federal minimum wage increase, reparations for racial injustice, addressing climate change, and creating a U.S. Department of Peace.

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As we become purer channels for God’s light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.

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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.

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Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.

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Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.

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Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

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God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.

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God is definitely out of the closet.

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I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

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If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.

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If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.

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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.

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In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.

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Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

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Joy, has no cost.

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Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

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Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don’t see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

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May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

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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.

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Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.

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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.

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Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.

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Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.

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Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman’s toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.

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The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

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The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

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The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

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The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

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The spiritual path – is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don’t know it.

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We are not held back by the love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love we’re not extending in the present.

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We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what’s wrong in your life, or you can focus on what’s right.

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We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm.

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We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.

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When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

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You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

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