Marianne Williamson: A Return to Love

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🗓️ 2 May 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Best-selling author Marianne Williamson talks about the 20th anniversary of her groundbreaking book "A Return to Love." A global phenomenon, the book went on to sell more than 1.5 million copies in the United States and has been published in 23 different languages. The New York Times best-selling spiritual guide explores how love is the key to inner peace. In the book, Marianne writes that our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate; it's that we are powerful beyond measure. It's a passage that remains one of Oprah's favorites. Marianne explains why we fear our light more than our darkness and how everyone has a built-in platform to connect with others. She also shares how living in the present, without fear or resentment, can bring you closer to inner peace.

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0:00.0	I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of
0:07.5	the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time, taking time to be more fully present.
0:16.0	Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right
0:23.1	now.
0:24.1	A return to love became a global phenomenon, published in 23 languages. It spent 39 weeks
0:31.4	on the New York Times bestseller list. Mary Ann Williamson's books and philosophy are
0:36.4	rooted in the psychological spiritual teaching guide called, of course, in miracles. Mary Ann
0:42.2	discovered this book in 1978 after years of feeling lost and out of control. She says,
0:48.3	the teachings about the power of love and forgiveness became her personal teacher and her path out of
0:55.2	hell. So 20 years after Mary Ann and I first met, I invited her back to discuss her landmark work
1:02.1	and to find out just how powerfully the life lessons from a return to love still resonate today.
1:09.1	You sitting on our stage 20 years ago was radical. It was opening up the hard space for so many
1:16.0	people and you say love itself is a radical idea but yet it feels so simple.
1:21.1	Right. Well, it's common sense but the world in which we live is not dominated by common sense.
1:26.2	In, of course, in miracles, it says that the thought system of the human race is dominated by fear
1:32.8	and has been for ages. And so enlightenment is an unlearning of the thought system based on fear
1:39.8	and then acceptance instead of a thought system based on love. You know, sometimes we talk about
1:44.0	how we're afraid that, you know, a life of God would be somehow a life of sacrifice.
1:48.2	Right. But the real life of sacrifice is the life that we normally live where we're sacrificing the
1:53.6	the awareness of who we really are and connection to God. And connection to God.
1:57.2	Yes. Which is love. And one of the things I love that you say in return to love is that no
2:02.7	religion has a monopoly on truth. I was just about to say.
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