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Marianne Williamson is a bestselling author, non-profit and political activist, and spiritual thought leader. For over three decades Marianne has been a leader in spiritual and religiously progressive circles. She is the…
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Our disconnection from nature has led to such irreverence towards the earth, a kind of murderous environmental rampage, a collective matricide. We destroy the forests, we pollute the waters, we violate the earth to the point where environmental damage now threatens the long-term survival of our species.
— Marianne WilliamsonAuthor of "A Return to Love" & Spiritual Activist
The zeitgeist of this moment is not about charismatic leaders but about an awakened citizenry. This isn't an era of soloists. It's an era of change led by the choir, where everyone is learning to sing their own note by living as authentically as we can.
— Marianne WilliamsonAuthor of "A Return to Love" & Spiritual Activist
You cannot genuinely connect with another human being through technology. You can only connect with other human beings through the mind, and through love, but technology can serve the process.
— Marianne WilliamsonAuthor of "A Return to Love" & Spiritual Activist
Western civilisation has veered off course; we have de-sacralised the world in which we live. We are collectively insane, and we need to mount our own intervention.
— Marianne WilliamsonAuthor of "A Return to Love" & Spiritual Activist
Society feels broken because society is broken. When the most powerful nations in the world are spending billions of dollars on ways to kill each-other, and a fraction of those resources on ways to heal each other, we're broken.
— Marianne WilliamsonAuthor of "A Return to Love" & Spiritual Activist
Every acorn is already programmed to become an oak tree, every embryo is programmed to become a baby, and every bud is programmed to become a blossom. Human beings are programmed as well, but we have something an acorn does not; free will. Every moment we live- we either allow the natural intelligence of life to unfold through us- or not. That natural intelligence is love.
— Marianne WilliamsonAuthor of "A Return to Love" & Spiritual Activist
Nothing in this world has deep enough roots to sustain us. We keep grasping for something in the world that we think will ease our existential pain, but the pain itself is a result of over-identifying with the world.
— Marianne WilliamsonAuthor of "A Return to Love" & Spiritual Activist
Western civilisation has veered off course; we have de-sacralised the world in which we live. We are collectively insane, and we need to mount our own intervention.
— Marianne WilliamsonAuthor of "A Return to Love" & Spiritual Activist
You cannot genuinely connect with another human being through technology. You can only connect with other human beings through the mind, and through love, but technology can serve the process.
— Marianne WilliamsonAuthor of "A Return to Love" & Spiritual Activist
Society feels broken because society is broken. When the most powerful nations in the world are spending billions of dollars on ways to kill each-other, and a fraction of those resources on ways to heal each other, we're broken.
— Marianne WilliamsonAuthor of "A Return to Love" & Spiritual Activist
Every acorn is already programmed to become an oak tree, every embryo is programmed to become a baby, and every bud is programmed to become a blossom. Human beings are programmed as well, but we have something an acorn does not; free will.
— Marianne WilliamsonAuthor of "A Return to Love" & Spiritual Activist
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