A Return to Love
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| A Return to Love | |
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 Paperback 1993 |
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| Author | Marianne Williamson |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Self help |
| Publisher | HarperCollins |
| Publication date | 1992 |
| Pages | 336 |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-06-092748-8 |
| OCLC Number | 317503896 |
| Dewey Decimal | 299/.93 20 |
| LC Classification | BP605.C68 W56 1996 |
A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles is the first book by author Marianne Williamson and is to date the biggest selling book of interpretation of the spiritual thought system found in the book A Course In Miracles. Most estimates claim that A Return to Love has sold in excess of three million copies, making it not only the best selling book of ACIM interpretation but one of the best selling self-help books of all time.
A Return to Love was one of the first books to be endorsed by Oprah Winfrey, though it was never selected for Oprah's Book Club because it was published several years before the club's founding.
Though Williamson has authored several books, A Return to Love remains her only book to sell more than a million copies.
| “ | Williamson might be called Oprah's patron saint. She's all about love and healing, yin and yang, being wounded, and using love and prayer to heal all wounds. A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course In Miracles (1992) was number one on the Publishers Weekly non-fiction best-sellers list for eleven weeks. Williamson promoted her book and ACIM when she appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, an episode that received more pro viewer mail than any other show for 1992. She also plugged the book and the course when she was interviewed by Barbara Walters on the ABC television news show 20/20.[1] | ” |
A Return to Love spent 39 weeks on the New York Times best sellers list in 1992 [1]. A decade later, A Return to Love was credited as being one of the two books that helped bring New Age perspectives to the American mainstream [2].
[edit] "Our deepest fear"
A passage from the book has become popular as an inspirational quote:
| “ | Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. | ” |
The passage has been used, amongst other places, in the 2005 film, Coach Carter. It is often incorrectly attributed to Nelson Mandela;[2] Williamson herself is quoted as saying, "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."[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Skeptics Dictionary ACIM listing Retrieved June 30, 2006
- ^ a b "That famous speech that Nelson Mandela never gave". http://aetw.org/mandela.htm. Retrieved 29 July 2009.
[edit] External links
- A Return to Love listed on Oprah's official "Books seen on Oprah" page
- Harper Collins listing and excerpt
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