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Marianne Williamson |
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| Marianne Williamson (born 8 July 1952 in Houston, Texas, U.S.)
is a spiritual activist, author, lecturer and founder of the The Peace
Alliance, a grass roots campaign supporting legislation currently before
Congress to establish a United States Department of Peace. She has been
characterized as "an ex-cabaret-singing Jew from Texas", and is
sometimes associated with an urban myth concerning Nelson Mandela's 1994
inauguration speech as president of South Africa |
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The press has referred to her as a modern-day shaman a Mother Teresa for the
‘90s and Hollywood’s answer to God, and failed to credit her for working
with dying AIDS and cancer patients and the homeless on L.A.'s streets.
Williamson founded the Centers for Living, an organization dedicated to
providing home-delivered care for people with life-threatening diseases, and has
participated in fund raising activities for charitable causes.
Her debut work A Return to Love begins ""The journey into darkness has been long
and cruel, and you have gone deep into it. What happened to my generation is
that we never grew up. The problem isn't that we're lost or apathetic,
narcissistic or materialistic. The problem is we're terrified." As of 2006
HarperCollins had published eighteen of her works.
Williamson's monthly lectures are not strictly Christian, and that has been the
central core of her appeal. She addresses both established Christianity and
Judaism in statements such as "You've committed no sins, just mistakes." She
teaches love and common sense, but she does so in the irreverent language of the
Seventies. Her earliest renown was for her talks on A Course in Miracles, a
step-by-step method for choosing love over fear.
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