Obviously, I don't want to minimize the patriarchal nature of our media, our government and our culture as a whole. But I think it's our refusal as women to own our power that is our biggest problem, both individually and collectively. The linchpin that holds the current system in place is the slumber of women.
Marianne WilliamsonPeople hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.
Marianne WilliamsonWhat is happening in politics today is a similar process to what happened in the medical world a few decades ago: realizing that there's more to healing than just addressing symptoms. Primary paradigm when it comes to dealing with political and social disease is allopathic: Pass a law, lock someone up, engage in warfare. And the state of the world today makes it clear that such allopathic measures have not exactly brought peace to all.
Marianne WilliamsonCreating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don't want.
Marianne Williamson