Super Soul Special: Marianne Williamson: A Return to Love

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🗓️ 4 March 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Originally aired May 2, 2018. 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 the most
0:07.8	valuable gifts you can give yourself is time. Taking time to be more fully present. Your journey
0:16.6	to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right now.
0:24.5	A Return to Love became a global phenomenon, published in 23 languages.
0:30.1	It spent 39 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.
0:33.9	Marianne Williamson's books and philosophy are rooted in the psychological spiritual teaching guide called
0:39.8	A Course in Miracles. Mary Ann discovered this book in 1978 after years of feeling lost and out of
0:46.6	control. She says the teachings about the power of love and forgiveness became her personal teacher
0:53.2	and her path out of hell. So 20 years after
0:57.4	Marianne and I first met, I invited her back to discuss her landmark work and to find out just
1:03.2	how powerfully the life lessons from a return to love still resonate today.
1:09.4	You sitting on our stage 20 years ago was radical.
1:12.6	It was opening up the hard space for so many people.
1:16.6	And you say love itself is a radical idea, but yet it feels so simple.
1:20.6	Right.
1:21.6	Yeah.
1:22.6	Well, it's common sense, but the world in which we live is not dominated by common sense.
1:25.6	And of course in miracles it says that the thought system of the human race is dominated by fear
1:32.4	and has been for ages.
1:35.2	And so enlightenment is an unlearning of the thought system based on fear
1:39.4	and an acceptance instead of a thought system based on love.
1:42.7	You know, sometimes we talk about how we're afraid that, you know,
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