Quote of the Day

If ever there was a time to stand for something bigger than ourselves, it’s now. We need a season of repair, an era of new beginnings, and a commitment to fundamental change. [All of this] will have to include inner as well as outer changes, or, in the words of Martin Luther King, Jr., “quantitative shifts in our circumstances as well as qualitative changes in our souls.”

Years ago I used to go to Al Anon meetings, where I learned that there are times in life where we’re simply “sick and tired of being sick and tired.” And I would hear people say, “Get into the solution.” That, it seems to me, is where we are as a country. It’s so tempting to wallow in cynicism, desperation, anger, and hopelessness right now – but that is exactly what we must reject. We have a choice to make; to either be taken down by the undertow of current events, or make a commitment to ourselves that in whatever way possible we’ll be agents of change.
Sometimes we don’t exactly know how we’re going to do something but there’s a power in knowing that we’re committed to doing it. That’s how we need to see transforming the world right now. We don’t even need to know exactly how we’re going to do it. We just need to be receptive enough, and available enough – and in our better hours, courageous enough – to consistently show up for the task. The path unfolds when we are willing to walk it.

– Marianne Williamson
Excerpted from “On Recreating the World:
Musings On Inner and Outer Change”
Transform
July 28, 2022

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• “It Is in Our Hands”
• Something to Think About – July 2, 2022
• Balancing the Fire
• Hope in the Midst of Collapse
• The End of the World As We Know It . . . and the Beginning As We Live It
• See the World!
• As the Last Walls Dissolve . . . Everything is Possible
• Threshold Musings
• A Sacred Pause
• Aligning With the Living Light
• Mystical Participation
• I Need Do Nothing . . . I Am Open to the Living Light
• Thoughts on Transformation (Part I)
• Thoughts on Transformation (Part II)
• Thoughts on Transformation (Part III)
• Moderates, Radicals, and MLK

For more of Marianne Williamson at The Wild Reed, see:
• “Two of the Most Dedicated and Enlightened Heroes of Present Day America”
• Now Here’s a Voice I’d Like to Hear Regularly on the Sunday Morning Talk Shows
• A Deeper Perspective on What’s Really Attacking American Democracy
• “For the Love of Our Children, Let’s Not Shut Up”
• Marianne Williamson on the Tenth Anniversary of Occupy Wall Street
• Cultivating Stillness
• Cultivating Peace
• Pollyanna, “Miracle Worker”
• Inauguration Eve Musings
• We Cannot Allow a Biden Win to Mean a Return to “Brunch Liberalism”
• “As Much the Sounding of An Alarm As a Time for Self-Congratulations”
• Marianne Williamson on the Movement for a People’s Party
• Eight Leading Progressive Voices on Why They’re Voting for Biden
• “We Have an Emergency On Our Hands”: Marianne Williamson On the “Freefall” of American Democracy
• Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – November 11, 2021
• Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – June 2, 2020
• Deep Gratitude
• “A Beautiful Message, So Full of Greatness”
• Marianne Williamson: “Anything That Will Help People Thrive, I’m Interested In”
• In the Garden of Spirituality – Marianne Williamson
• Easter for Mystics
• Christmas for Mystics

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