I don't think of spiritual principle as a struggle. I think of life lived without spiritual principles as a struggle.

Lives with no more sense of spiritual meaning than that provided by shopping malls, ordinary television, and stagnant workplaces are barren lives indeed. Spirituality enriches culture.

I think there is a place where self-awareness becomes self-preoccupation if you don't take what you have discovered and bring it to bear on the conditions of the world.

Every act of kindness on your part is a boost to your own immune system.

To me, hope is a moral imperative. I have hope and faith in forces unseen.

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.

I believe that ultimately it all comes down to whether we seek conscious contact with God on a daily basis through prayer and meditation.