Marianne Williamson is an American author, spiritual teacher and political activist, born in Houston, Texas, in 1952. Her 1992 book A Return to Love, based on A Course in Miracles, became a bestseller and contains the passage beginning “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate”, often wrongly attributed to Nelson Mandela. She ran for the US Congress in 2014 and for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020 and 2024.
Brian Rose has interviewed Williamson twice on London Real, in 2015 and 2018. They talked about forgiveness, institutional religion, money in politics, her run for Congress, and her view that love and spiritual principles have a place in public life.
Both interviews are listed below with a short summary.
Our Deepest Fear (2015). Her first interview, covering forgiveness, religion and politics, recorded shortly after the November 2015 Paris attacks.
Speaking in 2015, Williamson said forgiveness is not a pretty idea but the basic work of being human, and that she finds it as hard as anyone.
She argued that people have to be willing to go to the hard places in themselves and their relationships, and that honest, difficult dialogue is what starts the healing process in politics too.
In both interviews she made the case that love and compassion should shape how societies are run, an idea she later took into her presidential campaigns. She sees it as a practical response to social problems.
Marianne Williamson is an American author, spiritual teacher and political activist, born in Houston in 1952. She wrote A Return to Love and ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020 and 2024.
No. The passage comes from Marianne Williamson’s 1992 book A Return to Love. It is often attributed to Nelson Mandela, but he did not write it, a point Brian Rose makes in her 2015 interview.
She talked about forgiveness, institutional religion, money in politics, her 2014 run for Congress, the role of spirituality in public life and her vision for a more compassionate society.
Start with Our Deepest Fear from 2015, then watch Love America from 2018.
Twice: Our Deepest Fear in December 2015 and Love America in June 2018.
Yes. She sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, withdrawing in January 2020, and again in 2024. Both London Real interviews were recorded before these campaigns.
Official site: marianne.com
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