In many ways, it boils down to the following: You are perfect brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous , but because you do not believe in yourself fully, you are also personally responsible for all of the problems in the world. You the reader, you specifically, are everything that is good in the world and everything that is bad with it. It places the individual at the center of the world, and it appeals to our sense of grandeur.
But this philosophy can also lead to its adherents blaming themselves for every terrible or even just mildly unpleasant thing that happens, both in the world in general and to themselves in particular. Williamson had just been in three separate car accidents before the incident in question, she says.
But luckily, as soon as Williamson repented before God, he healed her. She stopped at a bar, and when a man began to try to chat her up, she decided that in the spirit of the Course in Miracles , she should listen to him rather than blow him off. And who should that man be, but a doctor with a prescription pad and a sense of ethics flexible enough that he immediately wrote Williamson a prescription for her sore throat on the spot?
But for a presidential candidate, it is more troubling. If we are personally responsible for the bad things that happen to us, then we are personally responsible when we are the victims of crime, of war, of illness and poverty. She was an early proponent of offering reparations to black Americans , and she supports programs like universal pre-K and free college.
But fundamental to what Williamson is selling is the idea that everything that is wrong and bad in the world comes from individual people, and that our sins will be manifested on our bodies. Our mission has never been more vital than it is in this moment: to empower through understanding. Financial contributions from our readers are a critical part of supporting our resource-intensive work and help us keep our journalism free for all.
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Of the misattribution of her words, Ms. An urban myth. In conclusion, Marianne Williamson should receive credit for the passage she wrote in The attribution of the words to Nelson Mandela is incorrect.
Great thanks to Gabriele Ermen whose inquiry led QI to formulate this question and perform this exploration. In addition, thanks to previous researchers such as Ralph Keyes and Fred R. Shapiro who identified this misquotation. Skip to content. Nelson Mandela? Marianne Williamson?
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