Works by
Marianne Williamson
(Writer)
[July 8, 1952 - ]

• A Return to Love CD (2004)

• Handling Fear: Talks on Spirituality and Modern Life (2004)

• Manifesting Abundance: Talks on Spirituality and Modern Life (2004)

• Spiritual Principles: Talks on Spirituality and Modern Life (2004)

• The Gift of Change CD: Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life (2004)

• The Principles of Everyday Grace (2004)

• Being in Light (2003)

• Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles (2002)

• Healing the Planet (2001)
  A dialogue between Marianne Williamson and Deepak Chopra

• Marianne Williamson on Intimacy (2001)

• Imagine: What America Could Be in the 21st Century (2000)

• Enchanted Love: The Mystical Power of Intimate Relationships (1999)

• Fear of Abandonment and Fear of Intimacy (1999)

• Letting Go and Becoming (1999)

• The Marianne Williamson Gift Set (1999)

• Anger Moving Out of Pain (1998)

• Criticism: You Are Not Your Drama (1998)

• Death and Grieving: Music, Meditation and Prayer (1998)

• Mystical Power: Talks on Spirituality and Modern Life (1998)

• Positive Relationships: Music, Meditation, and Prayer (1998)

• Family Relationships (1997)

• Healing: Music, Meditation and Prayer (1997)

• Marianne Williamson on Abundance (1997)

• Marianne Williamson on Body vs Spirit (1997)

• Marianne Williamson on Simplicity (1997)

• Power to Change (1997)

• Romantic Relationships (1997)

• Spirituality and Politics (1997)

• The Healing of America Cassette (1997)

• Work & Career (1997)

• An Inspirational Companion From Marianne Williamson (1996)

• Luminous Mind Workshop (1996)

• Marianne Williamson on Emotional Healing: Preparation for Relationships and Depression (1996)

• Marianne Williamson on Meditation and Prayer (1996)

• Marianne Williamson on Transformation: Growth Is Messy, the Real You (1996)

• Marianne Williamson On Commitment (1995)

• Marianne Williamson On Miracles (1995)

• Marianne Williamson On Spirituality (1995)

• Illuminata : Prayers for Everyday Life (1994)

• Marianne Williamson Audio Collection: On Love/on Relationships/on Self-Esteem/on Success (1994)

• Marianne Williamson on Communication (1994)

• Marianne Williamson on Forgiving Your Parents (1994)

• Marianne Williamson on Hope and Happiness (1994)

• The Sacred Self Workshop (1994)

• A Return to Love/Gift Set (1993)

• A Woman's Worth (1993)

• Marianne Williamson on Money (1993)

• Marianne Williamson on Success (1993)

• The Marianne Williamson Relationships Workshop (1993)

• Marianne Williamson on Dealing With Anger: Dealing With Anger and Total Defenselessness (1992)

• Marianne Williamson on Death & Dying  (1992)

• Marianne Williamson on Love: What Is Love? and Love Without an Agenda, Lectures (1992)

• Marianne Williamson on Relationships: Lectures on a Course in Miracles (1992)

• Marianne Williamson on Self-Esteem: Loving Yourself and Emotional Self-Sufficiency (1992)

• Marianne Williamson on Work/Career (1992)

• The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife (2008)
  The need for change as we get older—an emotional pressure for one phase of our lives to transition into another—is a human phenomenon, neither male nor female. There simply comes a time in our lives—not fundamentally different from the way puberty separates childhood from adulthood—when it’s time for one part of ourselves to die and for something new to be born.
  
  The purpose of this book is to psychologically and spiritually reframe this transition so that it leads to a wonderful sense of joy and awakening.
  
  In our ability to rethink our lives lies our greatest power to change them. What we have called “middle age” need not be seen as a turning point toward death. It can be viewed as a magical turning point toward life as we’ve never known it, if we allow ourselves the power of an independent imagination—thought-forms that don’t flow in a perfunctory manner from ancient assumptions merely handed down to us, but rather flower into new archetypal images of a humanity just getting started at 45 or 50.
  
  What we’ve learned by that time, from both our failures as well as our successes, tends to have humbled us into purity. When we were young, we had energy but we were clueless about what to do with it. Today, we have less energy, perhaps, but we have far more understanding of what each breath of life is for. And now at last, we have a destiny to fulfill—not a destiny of a life that’s simply over, but rather a destiny of a life that is finally truly lived.
  
  Midlife is not a crisis; it’s a time of rebirth. It’s not a time to accept your death; it’s a time to accept your life—and to finally, truly live it, as you and you alone know deep in your heart it was meant to be lived.

• The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life (2004)
  In this honest and uplifting book, bestselling author Marianne Williamson delves deeply into the powerful role of change in our lives today. Far from being something to fear and avoid, she says, every change -- even the most difficult and painful -- gives us an opportunity to receive the miraculous gift of personal transformation. The only real failure in life, she observes, is the failure to grow from what we go through. We will find real growth when we reorient ourselves using an eternal compass of spiritual principles, which alone can guide us on this path to wholeness.
  
  By fixing our eyes on the things that don't change, Williamson leads us across ten key bridges of transformation:

  • From Forgetting Who We Are to Remembering Who We Are

  • From Negative Thinking to Positive Love

  • From Anxiety to Atonement

  • From Asking God to Change the World to Praying That He Change Us

  • From Living in the Past and Future to Living in the Present

  • From Focus on Guilt to Focus on Innocence

  • From Separation to Relationship

  • From Spiritual Death to Rebirth

  • From Your Plan to God's Plan

  • From Who We Were to Who We Are Becoming

• Everyday Grace (2002)
  In these pages, author and lecturer Marianne Williamson acts as a guide back to the spiritual source, exploring the ways to nurture a thriving soul in a harsh world. The large and small difficulties of our days challenge us to open our hearts and minds. With an attitude of hope, a call to forgive, and a celebration of miracles, Williamson helps readers to find sacred footing on ordinary ground. For no matter what, there is always an opportunity to be happy. Everyone is entitled to the pleasures of everyday grace.

• Imagine: What America Could Be in the 21st Century (2000)
  In the realm of highest possibilities, what could America look like in 50 years? What kinds of changes would have to occur in order for that to happen? How can an individual or an institution best contribute to such change? And what is the deeper story trying to emerge within this nation and the world?
  
  Best-selling author Marianne Williamson posed these questions to nearly 40 of her well-known contemporaries, inviting them to open their imaginations to all the possibilities that could exist. Imagine is their collective response: a powerful, provocative, and compelling vision of a better America and a prescriptive call to action for significant positive change.

  • Imagine . . . an inner-oriented system of "restorative justice" in which everyone affected--victims, offenders, families, and communities--comes together and exchanges stories to gain a deeper understanding of one another's circumstances and motives, then collectively determines a fair course of action.

  • Imagine . . . a national network of revamped hospitals that integrate the physical, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of health, combining traditional scientific medicine with alternative methods in a team-oriented, holistic approach to healing.

  • Imagine . . . a country where neighbors talk, eat, and laugh together; where people know and care for one another; work is rewarding and fulfilling, and everyone--young and old--has plenty of time for play.

  • Imagine . . . a total transformation of our political system, our socioeconomic structure, our personal relationships, and our relationship with the Divine.

  Between the covers of Imagine, an unprecedented assembly of America's foremost visionaries, academics, activists, and spiritual leaders -- including Anne Lamott, bell hooks, Caroline Myss, Dean Ornish, Deepak Chopra, John Gray, John Robbins, Marianne Williamson, Neale Donald Walsch,  Sarah Ban Breathnach, and Thomas Moore -- addresses issues of personal, internal transformation as well as institutional, external change, recognizing that the internal and external are not separate but intertwined, that we must find peace within ourselves before we can change the world around us.
  
  Today, America is plagued by darkness, home to a plethora of problems and millions of troubled souls. Imagine moves beyond the present, aiming a shining beacon of light on a brighter tomorrow.
  
  All author royalties from the sales of this book will be donated to the Global Renaissance Alliance, a nonprofit organization dedicated to imagining and working toward a better world for our children and our children's children.

• Enchanted Love: The Mystical Power Of Intimate Relationships (1999)
  Three of Marianne Williamson's previous bestsellers -- A Return to Love, A Woman's Worth, and Illuminata -- explored the issue of relationships. Now, in this deeply personal collection of essays, prayers, and self-reflection, she turns to romantic love.
  
  In Illuminata, Williamson wrote that "we experience God to the extent to which we love, forgive, and focus on the good in others and ourselves." Now, in Enchanted Love, she writes that "enchanted partnership begins with the conscious understanding, on the part of two people, that the purpose of their relationship is not so much material as spiritual, and the internal skills demanded by it are prodigious." High romance, she says, "is not about past or future. It is not about practicality. It is not about society or worldly routines. It is an audacious ride to the center of what is, at the heart of every person. It is a bold and masterful inquiry into what two people really are and how we might become, while still on earth, the angels who reside within us."

• Healing the Soul of America: Reclaiming Our Voices as Spiritual Citizens (1997)
  In this landmark work, Marianne Williamson reminds us that there is a point in everyone's spiritual journey where the search for self-awareness can turn into self-preoccupation. All of us are better off when contemplation of holy principles is at the center of our lives. But it is in applying those principles in our lives that we forge the true marriage between heaven and earth.
  
  In the compassionate but clear-eyed prose that has won her so many avid readers, Williamson shows us that the principles which apply to our personal healing also apply to the healing of the larger world. Calling on Americans to turn the compassion in our hearts into a powerful force for social good, Williamson shows us how to transform spiritual activism into a social activism that will in turn transform America into a nation seriously invested in the hope of every child and in the potential of every adult.

• Illuminated Prayers (1997)
  "I think of prayer as a spiritual lifeline back to where I most want to be," Marianne Williamson writes in this new book of universal prayers. Prayer is a powerful force that can lift spirits, guide journeys, and heal the heart. Illuminated Prayers is a small volume of spiritual wisdom to bring the power of prayer into our daily lives.
  
  Illustrated in the manner of an illuminated manuscript, Illuminated Prayers offers a treasured keepsake of the power and enduring relevance of Williamson's message: Prayer illuminates our souls, and with prayer we can change the world.

• Emma and Mommy Talk to God (1996) with Julia Noonan, Illustrator
  "Mommy," said Emma, "who is God?" "God is all the love in the world," said Mommy. "He's in you and in me and in everybody everywhere."
  Internationally acclaimed author and philosopher Marianne Williamson and her daughter, Emma, share their own experiences talking about God in this gentle and inspirational picture book. Emma isn't quite sure who God is and what it means to believe in Him, but her loving talks with her mother help her to realize that God is always with her to help her find her way.
  
  Julia Noonan's glowing paintings infuse this intimate story with warmth and light. Emma & Mommy Talk to God is a unique resource that will guide and inspire both children and adults alike. Each day, Emma and her mommy pray together and say thank you to God. When Emma asks her mommy to tell her about God, she teaches Emma that she is never alone because God is always with her, and God is all the love in the world. This touching and uplifting story from renowned author and philosopher Marianne Williamson will help children and adults alike begin an exploration of their relationship with God and each other. Stunning illustrations by Julia Noonan lovingly capture the gentle moments between mother and child.
  
  Each day, Emma and her mommy pray together and say thank you to God. When Emma asks her mommy to tell her about God, she teaches Emma that she is never alone because God is always with her, and God is all the love in the world. This touching and uplifting story from renowned author and philosopher Marianne Williamson will help children and adults alike begin an exploration of their relationship with God and each other. Stunning illustrations by Julia Noonan lovingly capture the gentle moments between mother and child.

• Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage (1994)
  Marianne Williamson's bestselling A Return to Love ended with a prayer in which she asked God to help us "find our way home, from the pain to peace, from fear to love, from hell to Heaven." Now, in this stunning new collection of thoughts, prayers, and rites of passage, Marianne Williamson returns to prayer.
  
  Prayer is practical, Williamson tells us. "To look to God is to look to the realm of consciousness that can deliver us from the pain of living." Illuminata brings prayer into our daily lives, with prayers on topics from releasing anger to finding forgiveness, from finding great love to achieving intimacy. There are prayers for couples, for parents, and for children; prayers to mend broken relationships and prayers to overcome obsessive and compulsive love. There are prayers to heal the soul, prayers to heal the body, and prayers for work and creativity.
  
  Williamson also gives us prayers for the healing of America, including two prayers that have had powerful effects on audiences at her lectures: a prayer of amends on behalf of European Americans to African-Americans and one to Native Americans. How, Williamson asks, can we expect anyone to forgive when we have made no formal apology?
  
  Another section includes rites of passage, ceremonies of light for the signal events in our lives: blessing of the newborn, coming of age, marriage, and death. There is also a ceremony of the elder, for moving into midlife, and a ceremony of divorce, in which a gentle transition is provided for both the couple and their children.
  
  "Read my prayers or someone else's," Williamson says. "By all means, create your own." Illuminata is a way to bring prayer into practical use, creating a sweeter, more abundant life for yourself and the people you care for. "No conventional therapy," she says, "can release us from a deep and abiding psychic pain. Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world."

• A Woman's Worth (1993)
  With A Woman's Worth, Marianne Williamson turns her charismatic voice--and the same empowering, spiritually enlightening wisdom that energized her landmark work, A RETURN TO LOVE-- to exploring the crucial role of women in the world today. Drawing deeply and candidly on her own experiences, the author illuminates her thought-provoking positions on such issues as beauty and age, relationships and sex, children and careers, and the reassurance and reassertion of the feminine in a patriarchal society. Cutting across class, race, religion, and gender, A Woman's Worth speaks powerfully and persuasively to a generation in need of healing, and in search of harmony.

• A Return to Love (1992)
  Experience and learn about Marianne Williamson's inspiring and practical strategies on relationships, work, self-esteem, anger, forgiveness, love, success and so much more through your participation in this personal interactive workshop. Here is a practical, gracious guide to bringing universal spiritual principles to bear on our daily lives. Begin your journey with world-renowned speaker Marianne Williamson. Learn about Williamson's understanding of the miraculous, as she encourages and inspires you on your own spiritual path. A spiritual life demands dedication and frequent reflection. Join Williamson as she facilitates access to the deeper wisdom within yourself. Williamson coaches, you participate, in the process by which we let go of fear and let in love. Record your experiences as you travel the spiritual journey. Enhance your writings by including video, audio and text from throughout the program. Discover specially written new prayers, thought-provoking journal writing exercises and never-before-seen video of Marianne Williamson. Each feature of the program is designed to offer you a helping hand as you begin this personal interactive journey.

DVD

• A Course in Miracles (2000)
  Discover why the lives of millions have been transformed by "The Course" & how releasing fear and practicing forgiveness brings about miracles of love, healing and peace and helps us with all of our interpersonal relationships.

• Passion For Life (Quest Passion for Life Series, V. 1) (2002)
  Four programs featuring Caroline Myss, Deepak Chopra, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Jean Houston, Joan Borysenko, John O'Donohue, Judith Orloff, Marianne Williamson, Ondrea Levine, Ram Dass, Richard Carlson, Sam Keen, Sarah Ban Breathnach, Sir John Templeton, Stephen Covey, Stephen Levine, Thomas Moore, and Wayne Muller

• Love After Life (2000) by D. Patrick Miller
  When 50-year-old Lucas Palmer falls out of a rowboat into northern California’s Russian River, he initiates rapid and mysterious changes in the life of his troubled daughter Wendy who, at age 28, has been glumly waiting for her “real life” to begin. While the comatose Lucas conducts a searching inventory of his past in a strange otherworld, he must also negotiate the peace in a ludicrous battle between his two after-life guides: the spirit of his beloved wife Flora (who had once been a bad playwright and an enthusiastic student of A Course in Miracles), and the bombastic, cinematic ghost of General George S. Patton (Lucas’s secret hero). Meanwhile Wendy gets an unexpected makeover during a trying weekend that she must get through without the support of her Marianne Williamson tapes — and soon she learns secrets of her own past that shake her very foundations.

• The Wedding Vows from Conversations With God (2000) by Neale Donald Walsch and Nancy Fleming-Walsch with thoughts from Gerald G. Jamolsky and Marianne Williamson

• Handbook for the Heart: Original Writings on Love (1996), Benjamin Shield and Richard Carlson, eds.

• Quest: Discovering Your Human Potential (1996)
  Featuring Bernie Siegel, David Whyte, Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Stephen Covey, and Thomas Moore