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Marianne Williamson – A Return to LoveQuote:   “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fearis that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not ourdarkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to bebrilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not tobe? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve theworld. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that otherpeople won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, aschildren do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that iswithin us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as welet our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permissionto do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presenceautomatically liberates others.”  -Marianne WilliamsonThis book is based on Williamson’s discovery of A Course in Miracles , a self-help guide whose provenance she doesn’t explain. Age 26 at the time and feeling lost and desperate after indulging in the excesses of the 1960s, the Jewish author had no real hope for inspiration from the course because of its Christian terminology. But, she writes in this guide to the guide, the program works “miracles” for herself and for others who adopt its principles. Her extrapolations may appeal to readers in need of spiritual sustenance, but one questions Williamson’s advice to the gravely ill. When she encourages them, for example, to “write a letter to AIDS or cancer or whatever illness they might have, and tell it everything they feel”–even to fabricate “replies” from the disease–readers are likely to consider that a serious situation is trivialized. Williamson is founder and president of the Los Angeles and Manhattan Center for Living, a support service. BOMC alternate; author tour.Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. –