The Ten Bridges of Transformation: Spiritual Guidance for Radically New Life by Marianne Williamson

Make a radical shift toward a more peaceful, powerful, purposeful life!

In The Ten Bridges of Transformation, world-renowned spiritual teacher Marianne Williamson addresses 10 universal human challenges that act as gulfs, separating us from all the things we most want and need in life. When they rear their head – as they quite frequently do – we are rendered paralyzed by them, powerless and incapable of true movement.

In response, Marianne offers 10 radical new ways of encountering these inevitable challenges. These “bridges” will enable you to recognize the challenges and transitions of life as incredible opportunities for growth and enlightenment. Each one will carry you instantly from a specific challenging circumstance – anxiety, living in the past and future, focusing on guilt, negative thinking, and many more – to its positive alternative.

The 10 bridges are an eternal compass that guides us along the path to spiritual wholeness. Anytime you are lost, confused, frustrated, doubtful, fearful, even hopeless, you can use these 10 active principles to immediately reorient yourself toward love, peace, and fulfillment.

The Ten Bridges of Transformation includes several live segments, recorded at Marianne’s renowned workshops. These segments will infuse and ignite you with the incredible energy and enthusiasm of Marianne’s live events. As anyone who has heard or witnessed Marianne Williamson live can tell you, there’s nothing quite like it.

Without question, Marianne Williamson is one of the most profound, insightful, globally important spiritual teachers of our time. People who hear Marianne are invariably stunned by her incredible energy, but most of all by the absolute illusion-shattering truth of what she says.

The Ten Bridges of Transformation is absolutely essential listening for every Marianne Williamson fan, and anyone who wants to discover how to transform life’s changes, challenges, and hardships into miraculous opportunities for growth.

Marianne Williamson is the number one New York Times bestselling author of A Return to Love, A Woman’s Worth, Healing the Soul of America, Enchanted Love, and Illuminata. Her books have been translated into more than 20 languages and have inspired spiritual seekers the world over.

Contents:

disc 1. Bridge #1: from forgetting who we are to remembering who we are –
disc 2. Bridge #2: from negative thinking to positive thinking –
Bridge #3: from anxiety to atonement –
disc 3. Bridge #4: from asking God to change the world to asking God that He change us –
Bridge #5: from living in the past and future to living in the present –
disc 4. Bridge #6: from focus on guilt to focus on innocence –
Bridge #7: from separation to relationship –
disc 5. from spiritual death to rebirth –
disc 6. Bridge #9: from your plan to God’s plan –
disc 7. Bridge #10: from who we were to who we are –
disc 8. Walking the bridges: forgiveness and service.

The Law of Divine Compensation On Work, Money, and Miracles By Marianne Williamson [ Updated March 31, 2013]

Marianne Williamson is an internationally acclaimed author and lecturer. Four of her eight books, including A Return to Love, and, Everyday Grace, have been No. 1 New York Times bestsellers. Her most recent book is The Law of Divine Compensation. She also founded Project Angel Food, a meals-on-wheels program that serves over 1000 homebound people in the Los Angeles area daily, and co-founded the Global Renaissance Alliance (GRA), a worldwide network of peace activists.

Marianne Williamson is a bestselling author (Return to Love, Healing the Soul of America), a world-renowned teacher, and one of the most important New Age thinkers of our time. In The Law of Divine Compensation, she reveals the spiritual principles that help us overcome financial stress and unleash the divine power of abundance. A guru to anyone interested in New Age spirituality, Williamson’s words ring with power and truth as she assures us that, with faith in God’s promise of prosperity for all, we need never fear the future.

Book Excerpt: The Law of Divine Compensation by Marianne Williamson

Chapter Three: Making Love the Bottom Line

We carry a lot of misconceptions about love. Putting love first isn’t a life of “sacrifice,” for example, as many have been taught. In fact, putting love first means knowing who you are, which means accepting the fact that you’re entitled to miracles. Putting love first means knowing the universe supports you in creating the good, the holy, and the beautiful. It means knowing you’re on the earth for a purpose, and that the purpose itself will create opportunities for its accomplishment.

Making love your bottom line doesn’t make you “lose.” Putting love first is ultimately the way you inevitably gain. For what you give, you shall receive; and what you withhold will be withheld from you. Most of the world’s religions share this core idea. Or, as a friend of mine once described the idea to me, the universe keeps a perfect set of books. You give love; you get love.

Making love the bottom line doesn’t mean you have to give everything away or that you’ll never charge for your services. The principle of fair exchange gives love to both giver and receiver.

Making love the bottom line doesn’t mean you’re compelled to do anything anyone ever asks you to do. Love always gives the loving response, but sometimes the loving response is “No.”

But it does mean that we take seriously the idea that we are on the earth to do as Love would have us to do. I know from personal experience that when I’ve done this, I’ve gained financially as well as in other ways. And when I have not done this, I’ve lost.

The path of love might not lead to an immediate, short-term bundle of cash. That is not how the Law of Divine Compensation works. But following the path of love leads to trust, deeper relationships, and therefore greater probability of further good. Our internal abundance is ultimately the source of our external abundance. Who we are, not just the services we provide, creates money.

Someone who is positive and energetic when they show up for work; are they or are they not the person most likely to be promoted? Someone who is kind and helpful when you walk into their store; do they or do they not have a business to which you’re more likely to return? Someone who inspires genuine trust and faith in the excellence of their work; are they or are they not the person you are more likely to hire for your next project? You know that line about how nice guys finish last? It’s a lie.

Yet at times we fear that if we give ourselves to love, we will somehow devolve into a puddle of weakness—that love will make us vulnerable to hurt or to being less effective in the world. We think God can have our spiritual lives, but we better not hand over our finances! A woman once told me, “I don’t mind giving God my money, but if it’s over $200,000, I think I better handle it myself.” And here is what makes that such a joke: it is often in the area of our finances where we need miracles the most!

Love is our sanity. It does not lead us to unwise behavior. It does not lead us to give our money away frivolously when there is a need to save it and provide for our family. It does not lead us into a lack of respect for principles of money management or the appropriate laws of commerce. It does not lead us into unreasonable or immoderate behavior. Love doesn’t ruin things; love makes all things right, by aligning mortal events with the natural patterns of an intentional and creative universe.

Love makes us wake up in the morning with a sense of purpose and a flow of creative ideas. Love floods our nervous system with positive energy, making us far more attractive to prospective employers, clients, and creative partners. Love fills us with a powerful charisma, enabling us to produce new ideas and new projects, even within circumstances that seem to be limited. Love leads us to atone for our errors and clean up the mess when we’ve made mistakes. Love leads us to act with impeccability, integrity, and excellence. Love leads us to serve, to forgive, and to hope. Those things are the opposite of a poverty consciousness; they’re the stuff of spiritual wealth creation.

In 1992, I published a book called A Return to Love. At the time, I was bit naive—I had never spent time thinking about things like book contracts, bestseller status or book royalties. I was excited to be able to live off the suggested donations at my lectures on A Course in Miracles, and while writing the book I don’t think I even thought about how well it might sell. In fact, due largely to the enthusiasm of Oprah Winfrey, it was the fifth bestselling book in America that year.

I had a strong sense at the time that the money hadn’t really come directly from the book—that it had come through it. It felt like the money was divine payment for something more than the book, particularly the charitable work I had been doing for years before, for no money at all. It was payment for how I had been trying to live my life, cleaning up any mess from my past and trying to be of service to others. The seeker isn’t looking to “get money,” but to exchange energy. And when the energy we’re putting out is filled with the consciousness of love, then the energy flowing back to us comes in whatever form most serves our good. I figured that if I lived a good life and worked hard, then I’d be taken care of somehow.

There was a level of naiveté to the life I was living before my book was published. It wasn’t that I was so pure or anything, so much as blessedly unaware of the more sophisticated principles by which wealth is supposedly created. There’s no way in the world that my activities during those years would have been thought to be good for business, because there was no business! But I was, in my own way, about my Father’s business. And then, when the book was published, I saw what I had done for love came back to me a thousand fold and more.

Such is the Law. Spiritual teacher Marianne Williamson says the golden rule of giving and receiving is part of a greater divine order.
Excerpted from THE LAW OF DIVINE COMPENSATION by Marianne Williamson with permission by HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Copyright 2012.

Marianne Williamson on THE LAW OF DIVINE COMPENSATION

Marianne Williamson reflects on her newest book, THE LAW OF DIVINE COMPENSATION.

The Law of Divine Compensation with Marianne Williamson

Published on Feb 8, 2013

A wide-ranging and very timely interview with internationally acclaimed spiritual author and lecturer Marianne Williamson. Leading off from her new book, THE LAW OF DIVINE COMPENSATION, we discuss the nature of miracles and the perceptual shift we need to make to manifest them in our lives.

To hear the full audio interview click HERE

Marianne Williamson Interview

Marianne talks new book, the universe, philosophy to live by and more!

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Marianne Williamson ACIM Lecture Everyday Grace – Part 1 to 4

Marianne Williamson ACIM Lecture Everyday Grace 1

Marianne Williamson ACIM Lecture Everyday Grace 2

Marianne Williamson ACIM Lecture Everyday Grace 4

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1. Marianne Williamson “Consciousness and Activism” 2. New Consciousness. New Politics. 3 Politics Should be Sacred

New Consciousness. New Politics.

Sister Giant: Women, Non-Violence and Birthing a New American Politics
November 10 – 11, 2012
http://www.sistergiant.com

Politics Should be Sacred

1. Spirituality and Politics 2. Politics from the Inside Out: Marianne Williamson at All Saints Church 3. Mystical power of intimate relationships – Marianne Williamson [updated Feb 11, 2013]

Politics from the Inside Out: Marianne Williamson at All Saints Church

“What we don’t engage we can’t transform!” — Marianne Williamson’s challenge to imagine a new politics with “love as the bottom line.”

The political narrative of this nation has been the tension between those claiming the extraordinary possibility of democracy and those limiting it” she said in her presentation “Politics Inside Out: New Consciousness. New Politics” at the All Saints Rector’s Forum on Sunday, October 14, 2012.
Marianne Williamson-mystical power of intimate relationships

Marianne Williamson has become a leader of the new age spirituality movement. Her books and lectures have attracted star such as Oprah and Elizabeth Taylor. Her latest book is called “Enchanted Love: The Mystical Power of Intimate Relationships.”

The Quest! Marianne Williamson Deepak Chopra Stephen Covey Thomas Moore

The Quest – Discovering Your Human potential !
Marianne Williamson / Deepak Chopra / Thomas Moore
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Eckhart Tolle and Marianne Williamson – Midwifing the new consciousness

Published on Nov 6, 2012

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Christmas for Mystics ~ Marianne Williamson

The holidays are only holy if we make them so.

Otherwise, the assault of modernity – from crass consumerism to a 24-hour news cycle to the compulsivity of the wired world – wrecks whatever we have left of our nervous systems, making the true spiritual meaning of Christmas seem as distant as the furthest star. It’s only when we consciously carve out a space for the holy – in our heads, our hearts and our lifestyles – that the deeper mysteries of the season can reveal themselves.

The holidays are a time of spiritual preparation, if we allow them to be. We’re preparing for the birth of our possible selves, the event with which we have been psychologically pregnant all our lives. And the labor doesn’t happen in our fancy places; there is never “room in the Inn,” or room in the intellect, for the birth of our authentic selves. That happens in the manger of our most humble places, with lots of angels, i.e. Thoughts of God, all around.

Something happens in that quiet place, where we’re simply alone and listening to nothing but our hearts. It’s not loneliness, that aloneness. It’s rather the solitude of the soul, where we are grounded more deeply in our own internal depths. Then, having connected more deeply to God, we’re able to connect more deeply with each other. Our connection to the divine unlocks our connection to the universe.

According to the mystical tradition, Christ is born into the world through each of us. As we open our hearts, he is born into the world. As we choose to forgive, he is born into the world. As we rise to the occasion, he is born into the world. As we make our hearts true conduits for love, and our minds true conduits for higher thoughts, then absolutely a divine birth takes place. Who we’re capable of being emerges into the world, and weaknesses of the former self begin to fade. Thus are the spiritual mysteries of the universe, the constant process of dying to who we used to be as we actualize our divine potential.

We make moment-by-moment decisions what kind of people to be — whether to be someone who blesses, or who blames; someone who obsesses about past and future, or who dwells fully in the present; someone who whines about problems, or who creates solutions. It’s always our choice what attitudinal ground to stand on: the emotional quicksand of negative thinking, or the airstrip of spiritual flight.

Such choices are made in every moment, consciously or unconsciously, throughout the year. But this is the season when we consider the possibility that we could achieve a higher state of consciousness, not just sometimes but all the time. We consider that there has been one – and the mystical tradition says there have also been others – who so embodied his own divine spark that he is now as an elder brother to us, assigned the task of helping the rest of us do the same.

According to A Course in Miracles, he doesn’t have anything we don’t have; he simply doesn’t have anything else. He is in a state that is still potential in the rest of us. The image of Jesus has been so perverted, so twisted by institutions claiming to represent him. As it’s stated in the Course, “Some bitter idols have been made of him who came only to be brother to the world.” But beyond the myth making, doctrine and dogma, he is a magnificent spiritual force. And one doesn’t have to be Christian to appreciate that fact, or to fall on our knees with praise and thanks at the realization of its meaning. Jesus gives to Christmas its spiritual intensity, hidden behind the ego’s lure into all the wild and cacophonous sounds of the season. Beyond the nativity scenes, beyond the doctrinal hoopla, lies one important thing: the hope that we might yet become, while still on this earth, who we truly are.

Then we, and the entire world, will know peace.

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Best of The Oprah Show – Marianne Williamson [updated Oct 10, 2012]

My most recent encounter with Marianne Williamson was in 2008 at East-West book store located at Manhattan, NYC, where she officiated the launching and signing ceremony of her latest book “The Age of Miracles”
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Twenty years ago, Marianne Williamson’s Oprah Show appearance launched a phenomenon. Now, Oprah is sitting down with Marianne, the author of A Return to Love, for a new, can’t-miss interview.

Look back at Marianne Williamson’s thoughts on love and prayer in this episode of The Best of “The Oprah Show.”

Published on July 29, 2012

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Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles Marianne Williamson

What do your spiritual convictions have to do with traffic jams, job anxiety, reading the newspaper, or arguing with your spouse? Everything, according to Marianne Williamson. It is the way we live in our everyday world that determines the shape of who we are. So Buddhist or Muslim, Christian or Jew, it is the moment when our daughter doesn’t make the basketball team, or our best friend lands our dream job, or our business instinct tells us to bury the guy across the boardroom table that tests and builds our living faith.

With an attitude of hope, a call to forgive, a celebration of miracles, and the promise of strength and grace, Williamson helps us find our sacred footing on ordinary ground.

No matter where we are or what we’re doing, there is the opportunity to be happy, and to be holy. The large and small difficulties of our days challenge us to open our hearts and minds. And in this book of hours, Marianne Williamson teaches us to ride the currents that lurk in each of those moments of opening to a sea change of the soul.

Marianne Williamson “Everyday Grace”

Patricia Gras speaks with “Everyday Grace” author Marianne Williamson.