March 6, 2023, 10:21am
You cannot be president unless you first allow yourself to imagine yourself as president. So goes the wisdom of self-help author and new-age guru Marianne Williamson, who is back, baby, with a 2024 run for the top job (before enlightenment itself).
Speaking with the New York Times at her weekend campaign launch, she said that she believes President Joe Biden is the wrong person for the next era: “I believe that he is an unwise offering and a weak choice for 2024.”
Far be it from us to discourage a candidate driven to bring self-examination into an ego-driven race to secure the biggest war chest of money.
Williamson is the author of The Law of Divine Compensation, A Return To Love, A Politics of Love, A Woman’s Worth, and a spiritual guide to weight loss, and was widely quoted during her 2020 run as someone want to drop Californian inspo-talk into her speeches. Has Biden read Brené Brown? We do not know.
Curiously enough, a Williamson quote has been misattributed to Nelson Mandela in the past, including by Hillary Clinton. It comes from A Return to Love:
“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.”
Mandela probably wouldn’t disagree!
[via New York Times]