It is not your job to seek for love. It IS your job to seek within yourself all the barriers against its coming.

Capitalism has been really good to me. I'm very fortunate: I have written books and my books have sold.

If you are not grieving, you are not conscious. But if you are not rejoicing in the possibilities of how this could all change, then you are not looking through the filter of the greatest spiritual perspicacity.

Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

Living meaningfully is what brings joy.

The famous passage from her book is often erroneously attributed to the inaugural address of Nelson Mandela. About the misattribution Williamson said, "Several years ago, this paragraph from A Return to Love began popping up everywhere, attributed to Nelson Mandela's 1994 inaugural address. As honored as I would be had President Mandela quoted my words, indeed he did not. I have no idea where that story came from, but I am gratified that the paragraph has come to mean so much to so many people.

When the heart is pierced, there is pain, yes, but also an invitation to a greater becoming.