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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 end poverty in the United States and around the world. Williamson also produces the Sister Giant Conferences, highlighting the intersection of spirituality and politics.

✵ 8. July 1952
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Marianne Williamson Quotes

“The news isn’t how bad things are. The news is how good they could be. And our own activity could be part of the unfolding of Heaven on earth. There is no more powerful motivation than to feel we’re being used in the creation of a world where love has healed all wounds.”

Marianne Williamson

Source: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles" (1992), Ch. 7 : Work, §9 : Sales to Service

Bad luck , Motivation , World , Love

“There comes a time, not too long into the journey to God, when the realization that the world could work beautifully if we would give it the chance, begins to excite us. It becomes our new motivation.”

Marianne Williamson

Source: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles" (1992), Ch. 7 : Work, §9 : Sales to Service

God , Chance , Time , Motivation

“If we’re not working in order to get rich, then why are we working at all? What are we supposed to do all day? Just sit home and watch TV?
Not at all, but thinking so is a temporary phase many people go through — when the values of the old world no longer have a hold on us, but the values of the new don’t yet grab your soul. They will.”

Marianne Williamson

Source: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles" (1992), Ch. 7 : Work, §9 : Sales to Service

Home , Soul , People , Thinking

“Money in politics is the cancer underlying all the others. The only way to heal it is thru public funding of federal campaigns plus a constitutional amendment. Til then, health insurance, big Pharma, gun manufacturers, oil & gas, food, chem & defense contractors run this country.”

Marianne Williamson

Twitter https://twitter.com/marwilliamson (8 Jan 2020)
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Money , Food , Country , Health

“Being anti-slavery simply meant you didn’t agree with slavery; being an abolitionist meant you’d crossed a bridge inside yourself, from “I don’t agree” to “Not on my watch.””

Marianne Williamson

Which are you in relation to a corporate aristocracy that has corrupted our govt and eroded our democracy?
Twitter https://twitter.com/marwilliamson (24 Dec 2019)
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“From a religious perspective, loving one another is the highest commandment. From a spiritual perspective, loving one another is the wisdom of the ages. From a political perspective, loving one another is just the smartest thing to do. Plus, today it’s the only survivable option.”

Marianne Williamson

Twitter https://twitter.com/marwilliamson (26 Nov 2019)
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Love , Making love , Wisdom , Age

“When 1% of the population owns more wealth than the bottom 90%, the last people you should be asking for economic advice are the people who created that situation.”

Marianne Williamson

Twitter https://twitter.com/marwilliamson (26 Nov 2019)
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Wealth , People

“We need to talk about more than just the health care plan. We need to realize we have a sickness care rather than a health care system. We need to be the party talking about why so many of our chemical policies and our food policies and our agricultural policies and our environment policies and even our economic policies are leading to people sick to begin with.”

Marianne Williamson

Quoted in We Desperately Need Marianne Williamson’s Message, https://theintercept.com/2019/08/05/marianne-williamson-2020-presidential-campaign/ The Intercept, Jon Schwarz (5 August 2019)

People , Health , Food

“A country that can afford a $738 billion defense budget but will not ensure its school children a more healthy diet is a country whose moral values are spiraling down and whose future health care costs will be spiraling up.”

Marianne Williamson

Twitter https://twitter.com/marwilliamson (18 Jan 20)
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School , Country , Future , Children

“A politics of conscience is still yet possible. And yes….love will prevail.”

Marianne Williamson

Twitter https://twitter.com/marwilliamson (10 Jan 20)
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Love , Making love

“We don't believe that because you pray with someone they're not supposed to go to the doctor.”

Marianne Williamson

Quoted in Marianne Williamson ends presidential bid, says campaign tried her faith https://religionnews.com/2020/01/10/marianne-williamson-ends-presidential-bid-says-campaign-tried-her-faith/, Religion News Service, (10 January 2020)

“21stC mindset different than 20th. There’s realization that either we will evolve into a higher level of compassion for everyone, or in time there will be no one left. Warmongers, climate change deniers, fossil fuel extractors, capitalists without conscience - they are dinosaurs.”

Marianne Williamson

Twitter https://twitter.com/marwilliamson (9 Jan 20)
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Time , Change

“America’s most important ally should be humanity itself. Our species will not survive another 100 years if we don’t move from a competitive to a cooperative mode of existence. “Me first” is an obsolete, unsustainable perspective.”

Marianne Williamson

Twitter https://twitter.com/marwilliamson (8 Jan 20)
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“Trump did not create the worst dysfunctions of our democracy; our worst dysfunctions created him. He's the symptom, not the cause, of a dangerous slide away from vital democracy toward corporate authoritarian rule. The slide began 40 years ago and he's simply the climactic event.”

Marianne Williamson

Twitter https://twitter.com/marwilliamson (15 Dec 2019)
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Democracy

“We should have total public funding of federal campaigns. That is the only way to get the dark money out of politics. As president that will be my first piece of legislation to submit because the undue influence of money on our politics is the cancer underlying all other cancers.”

Marianne Williamson

Twitter https://twitter.com/marwilliamson (24 Nov 2019)
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Money , Way

“The US will be a violent society until we decide to be nonviolent. Our task, if we do decide that, is to proactively and intentionally wage peace.”

Marianne Williamson

Twitter https://twitter.com/marwilliamson (25 Oct 2019)
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Peace

“The military has more than 130 bands with more than 6000 musicians, costing about a half-billion dollars a year. Meanwhile the National Endowment for the Arts gets $155M, a paltry amount compared to other advanced democracies. Arts & artists should be robustly funded & supported!”

Marianne Williamson

Twitter https://twitter.com/marwilliamson (24 Oct 2019)
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Democracy , Support , Art

“As long as health ins & Big Pharma determine so much health care policy, gun manufacturers so much gun safety policy, oil & gas companies so much environmental policy & defense contractors so much defense policy, we’re functioning not as a democracy but as a corporate aristocracy”

Marianne Williamson

Twitter https://twitter.com/marwilliamson (22 Oct 2019)
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Democracy , Health

“A person disconnected from empathy is a sociopath, but making that all about the president is to displace our outrage & responsibility from where it belongs. Our public policies have lacked empathy for decades. He did not create the spiritual void; the spiritual void created him.”

Marianne Williamson

Twitter https://twitter.com/marwilliamson (22 Oct 2019)
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Personality , Making love

“The United States is number two in the world for hosting child pornography websites. Dangers to our children should be a top priority, yet only half the money appropriated to fight crimes against children online has been given to the effort .”

Marianne Williamson

Twitter https://twitter.com/marwilliamson (2 Oct 2019)
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Money , Children , World , Fight

“Economic system of the US was created & designed before women had a voice in the public realm. We do have a voice now; it’s important that we use it not to fit into the system but to change the system. The main engine of our economy should be the care & nurturance of our children”

Marianne Williamson

Twitter https://twitter.com/marwilliamson (2 Oct 2019)
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Children , Women , Change

“The ground on which we’ll unite as Americans is the higher ground of moral repair. Not Left or Right, or even Democrats or Republicans. We’ll unite as Americans, having come to realize that aligning public policy with the goodness in our hearts is our best and only path forward.”

Marianne Williamson

Twitter https://twitter.com/marwilliamson (1 Oct 2019)
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Heart

“I haven’t heard anybody on this stage who has talked about American foreign policy in Latin America... There is an injustice that continues to form a toxicity underneath the surface, an emotional turbulence, people heal when there’s some deep truth-telling.”

Marianne Williamson

We Desperately Need Marianne Williamson’s Message. https://theintercept.com/2019/08/05/marianne-williamson-2020-presidential-campaign/ The Intercept, Jon Schwarz (5 August 2019)

Truth , People