Marianne Deborah Williamson (born July 8, 1952) is an American spiritual teacher, author, and lecturer. She has published twelve 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. Williamson 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.
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Press and TV
She has been a guest on television programs such as The Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King Live, Good Morning America, Charlie Rose, and Real Time with Bill Maher. In December 2006, a Newsweek magazine poll named her one of the fifty most influential baby boomers. According to Time magazine, "Yoga, the Cabala and Marianne Williamson have been taken up by those seeking a relationship with God that is not strictly tethered to Christianity." Williamson bases her teaching and writing on a set of books called A Course in Miracles, a self-study program of spiritual psychotherapy, based on universal spiritual themes.
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Publications
Williamson has published 12 books, with the most recent one; Tears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment published in 2016 and sold a combined total of more than 3,000,000 books,which led The New York Times reporter Mark Leibovich to label her a "self-help guru". Some of Williamson's publications have been translated from English into other languages such as Spanish.
Bibliography
- A Return to Love, First Edition 1992 (ISBN 9780060927486)
- Imagine What America Could Be in the 21st Century: Visions of a Better Future from Leading American Thinkers (ISBN 0451204697)
- Emma & Mommy Talk to God (ISBN 9780060799267)
- Healing the Soul of America: Reclaiming Our Voices as Spiritual Citizens (ISBN 9780684846224)
- A Woman's Worth (ISBN 9780345386571)
- Enchanted Love: The Mystical Power of Intimate Relationships (ISBN 9780684870250)
- Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, And Making Miracles (ISBN 9781573223515)
- Illuminata: A Return to Prayer (ISBN 9781573225205)
- The Gift of Change (ISBN 0060816112)
- The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money and Miracles (ISBN 0062205412)
- A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever (ISBN 1401921531)
- Tears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment (ISBN 9780062205445)
Quotes
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure." - Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love
"Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world." - Marianne Williamson, The Law of Divine Compensation: Mastering the Metaphysics of Abundance
Appearances & Lectures
Williamson regularly does lectures via online streaming platforms, and occasionally does live appearances and lectures at events throughout the United States.
Personal life
Williamson was born to a Jewish family in Houston, Texas, in 1952. She is the youngest of three children of Samuel "Sam" Williamson, an immigration lawyer, and his homemaker wife, Sophie Ann (Kaplan). After graduating from Houston's Bellaire High School, Williamson put in two years studying theater and philosophy at Pomona College in Claremont, California before dropping out in her Junior year and moving to New York City to pursue a career as a cabaret singer.
In 1979, Williamson returned to Houston, where she ran a metaphysical bookstore. In 1987 she helped found the Los Angeles Center for Living, a support facility for those with life-threatening illnesses. Two years later she began Project Angel Food, to deliver meals to AIDS patients. In 1990 Williamson had her only child, India Emmaline. She refuses to identify or discuss the father of her daughter, and instead chose to raise India alone as an "unwed Jewish mother."
References
External links
- Official Web Site
- Marianne Williamson, article and shows at Oprah.com
- Marianne Williamson on "Politicking with Larry King"
- Williamson interview
- Sister Giant
Source of article : Wikipedia
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