Marianne Williamson Lecture & Book-Signing in NYC: Tears to Triumph—The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment

• Books & Literature
• Science & Health

Tonight the internationally renowned teacher and speaker, leading spiritual figure, and bestselling author of ten texts, including A Return to Love, draws from her newest book, Tears to Triumph, to argue that our desire to avoid pain is detrimental to our lives, disconnecting us from our deepest emotions, preventing true healing and spiritual transcendence.

Our culture, she says, encourages us to numb, medicate or divert attention from our pain—anything to avoid facing it. But in refusing to acknowledge our suffering, we prolong it and ultimately limit our growth and our opportunity for enlightenment. Frozen by denial, we are left standing in the breach. Whole industries profit from this immobility, and while they grow rich, we become spiritually poorer. True healing and transcendence can only come when we face our pain and wrestle with what it has to teach us, to come to a deeper awareness of our feelings, our lives, and our true selves.