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A WOMAN'S WORTH
Williamson, Marianne
1993 43522 From Publishers Weekly Williamson ( A Return to Love ) here tells women that they are goddesses with cosmic functions. A weakness: she often lets women hear what they want to hear--how "special" they are, how beautiful, how close to nature. When she draws from her own experience, Williamson gives sound, empowering advice on relationships, work, love, sex and childrearing. Still, her soft focus on the so-called feminine virtues, including that of assuming the submissive role during sex, often seems reactionary and contradictory, as when she argues that women were meant to be passive, but later claims that woman should assert their power. This mix of the mystical, the modern (Williamson says one of her old boyfriends left her for a "bimbo") and the Christian could be called visionary--but the combination doesn't always make sense, as in this statement: "Our Kingdom is our life and our life is our Kingdom. And we are all meant to rule from a glorious place." Author tour. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal This is essentially a feel-good book, meant to inspire and empower women to take control over their lives and help return the world to the feminine qualities from which it has strayed. As in Williamson's best-selling first book, A Return to Love ( LJ 1/92), love is the key. Although Williamson's messsage is admirable--who among us is against the prospect of a world order based on love and understanding with an end to all that is antithetical?--many readers will be put off by the means she posits to that end. Most women do not think in terms of growth from girl to princess to queen to goddess. In addition, her assumption that all women intuitively know what is right is at best optimistic. This work could serve as a starting point for those who have difficulty approaching the concept of feminism. The success of Williamson's first book indicates New Age enthusiasts will be attracted here; aticipate demand where the first was popular. Random House 0-679-42218-8 / 9780679422181
Hardcover As New Condition New York
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21.00 USD
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HEALING OF AMERICA
Williamson, Marianne
1997 6807 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. SYNOPSIS Marianne Williamson suggests reuniting the nation by returning to the first principles of our founding fathers. FROM THE CRITICS Publishers Weekly Bludgeoning readers with grandiose good intentions, this exuberant exhortation by Williamson (Illuminata) to return to America's founding principles gives the sensation of being assaulted by a college roommate in the throes of a late-night epiphany. Williamson claims that in the "yang" of the Industrial Revolution and our subsequent technological and political expansion, the U.S. lost the "yin" spirit that suffused the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. "We have the yang; we must reclaim the yin. We have the intelligence; we must retrieve our souls." Quoting Martin Luther King Jr. that the means of change "must be as pure as the end," she urges her readers to dare to be conduits of God's love. Williamson's desire to remind her vast readership of the courage and vision of the Founding Fathers and of the connection between social awareness and inner development is commendable, and she has a knack for rendering spiritual concepts in immediate terms ("Anger, like money and white sugar, is a temporary motivator of lower human energies"). Her sweeping generalizations, however, along with her tacit assumption of the banner of leadership, would probably bewilder Thomas Jefferson and company: "We are moving into new territory where we are unable to plug into our own energy sources unless we learn how to convert our thinking. We need adaptersfacilitators of the new consciousness...." And though she promotes the noble idea of turning "spiritual conviction into a political force, as Gandhi did in India and King did in the United States," she numbs with bombast rather than awakening us, as Gandhi and King did, through the living examples of their courage and commitment. (Sept.) Library Journal The inspirational writer best known for promoting "A Course in Miracles" here broadens her focus. Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group 0-684-84270-X / 9780684842707
Hardcover As New New York
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15.75 USD
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The Age of Miracles - Embracing the New Midlife
Williamson, Marianne
2008 10013383 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. Graham Christian - Library Journal Williamson is unarguably one of the most visible and influential writers in spirituality and almost as puzzling as the book that was her inspiration and the foundation of her early fame, A Course in Miracles. Raised in a Jewish household, Williamson, after a string of personal mishaps entirely typical of American life, found her way to the Course, a book dictated by, so its "medium" Helen Schucman claimed, the voice of Jesus. Williamson's book-length exposition of Schucman's curious post-Christian mysticism, Return to Love(1992), became a best seller. Published at twenty three dollars in 2008. Hay House, Inc. 1-4019-1719-4 / 9781401917197
Hardcover AS NEW CONDITION As New Book Jacket
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