Marianne Williamson is an internationally acclaimed author and lecturer. She has published nine books, four of which - including the mega bestseller A Return to Love and Everyday Grace - have been #1 New York Times bestsellers. Her titles also include Illuminata, A Woman's Worth, and Healing the Soul of America. She also edited Imagine: What American Could Be in the 21st Century, a compilation of essays by some of America's most visionary thinkers.

Ms. Williamson has been a popular guest on numerous television programs such as Oprah, Larry King Live, Good Morning America, and Charlie Rose.

Marianne Williamson has lectured professionally since 1983. In 1989, she founded Project Angel Food, a meals-on-wheels program that serves homebound people with AIDS in the Los Angeles area. Today, Project Angel Food serves over 1,000 people daily.

Ms. Williamson also founded the The Peace Alliance, an international network of peace activists. The mission of The Peace Alliance is to harness the power of nonviolence as a social force for good. The Peace Alliance is currently steering the campaign to establish a United States Department of Peace.

Ms. Williamson's book Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness and Making Miracles, was published by Riverhead Books (Nov 2002) and quickly reached #1 on the New York Times Best-Seller List (Dec 2002).

Her new book, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life, was released from Harper Collins on November 9, 2004 and is available at bookstores everywhere.

Please visit her website at www.marianne.com.

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Several years ago, the following paragraph from A RETURN TO LOVE began popping up everywhere, attributed to Nelson Mandela's l994 Inaugural Address. As honored as Marianne Williamson would have been had President Mandela quoted her words, indeed he did not. Marianne has no idea where that story came from, but she is gratified that the paragraph has come to mean so much to so many people.

"...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. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

~ From A RETURN TO LOVE by Marianne Williamson
© 1992 (Paperback; pp 190-191)

Nine Books, Four #1 New York Times Bestsellers