The Republican corporatists are worse than the Democratic corporatists, but only to a degree. And Republican corporatists are at least true to their principles, however abhorrent those principles might be to some of us.
— Marianne Williamson
Abolition didn't just happen - people made it happen. Women's suffrage didn't just happen - people made it happen. Civil Rights legislation didn't just happen - people made it happen. And marriage equality didn't just happen, either - people made it happen.
Revolutions are not easy.
Anyone seeking a real solution in Israel and Palestine rejects the us-versus-them mentality entirely.
I have no doubt that the lies Trump told on the campaign trail will come crashing back at him in karmic retribution.
I try to remind myself not to go anywhere or do anything without asking for spiritual direction through prayer and meditation.
I place my life in the hands of God each day. And I trust that He knows what He's doing, even when I do not.
Successful businesses create jobs; that is true. But the notion that if we cut taxes enough for the very rich and for already hugely profitable businesses, then all that money will trickle down to everyone else in the form of job creation is simply false.
I want a woman president - really, I do.
We are material beings for but a moment in time, but we are spiritual beings forever.
With thoughts of the past and concerns about the future, we rob ourselves of a full experience of the present.
In the hands of the ego, marriage is a prison. It is exclusive. It is a place where people are constantly reminded of their failures and limited by the energies of another person. It is rife with judgment and blame.
I trust that when people meet, we meet for a transcendent reason, and that the challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.
All of us wish we'd had perfect childhoods, with a mother and father who modeled ideal parental attitudes and taught us to internalize the tenets of self-love. Many of us, however, did not.
While overeating would be seen by some as an indulgence of self, it is in fact a profound rejection of self. It is a moment of self-betrayal and self-punishment, and anything but a commitment to one's own well-being.
As we mature through the years, we access more deeply information we had only abstractly understood before.
Family relationships trigger childhood wounds, and those wounds often trump our rational thinking. We can't 'rationally' transcend the kind of primal pain that such relationships can arouse.
Corporate America is not dumb; it's worked hard to sew up both political parties in its nefarious schemes to place their short-term economic interests before the health and well-being of the average American.
Empires always have the hubris to think they are indestructible, when in fact they are always unsustainable.
Corporate totalitarianism means total control by corporate interests. If they want a war, they get a war. If they want GMOs, they get GMOs. If they want fracking, they get fracking. If they want big banks to control our monetary policy, big banks control our monetary policy.
There are two distinctly, almost surreally different narratives in Israel and Palestine... and to a great extent, both are right and both are wrong. Both peoples have suffered greatly and both have legitimate grievances against the other.
Pray for Trump's sanity and clarity, because his power to cause real damage to our country is enormous.
I trust life not because I trust the world, but because I trust the God who lives in my heart.
Spiritually, I understand that Trump is an innocent child of God. And before he was a Presidential candidate, I found him to be a kind of entertaining American character. But he is not entertaining anymore; he is frightening. He has been elected to the Presidency of the United States and yet he acts like he is mocking the job.
Political propaganda seeks to affect the way people perceive the world in order to affect the way they behave.
Spiritual 'exercise' keeps your mind in shape the way physical exercise keeps your body in shape.
Ironically, it is when we identify with our spirits rather than our bodies that we are most powerful on the material plane. Our overidentification with the world does not give us power within the world so much as it diminishes our power here. It makes us frightened and nervous and full of anxiety.
The present moment, if you think about it, is the only time there is. No matter what time it is, it is always now.
Marriage, like everything else in the world, is holy or unholy depending on the purpose the mind ascribes to it.
As someone who has faced as much disappointment as most people, I've come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way.
There's no reason to think that you'll be capable of loyalty to a diet until you address your basic disloyalty toward yourself.
I have known healthy, wealthy people who were depressed, and people with critical illnesses who could honestly attest to joy.
Spiritual principles do not change, but we do.
Marriage can be a magnificent lesson in becoming our best selves; that is true.
It's a beautiful thing when democracy prevails.
Old systems do not fold willingly, particularly when they control gargantuan amounts of wealth and power. But like empires of old - from the Romans to the Hapsburgs to the colonial British - even the largest do fall.
The struggle between Israelis and Palestinians is a perfect reflection of the struggle between fear and forgiveness that rages within us all.
Anyone who isn't confused or conflicted on the topic of Israel probably isn't looking into it too deeply.
Donald Trump is an innocent child of God, and the democratically chosen president-elect of the United States. We must deeply bow before the first and deeply respect the second.
We are graced with a greater capacity for direct contact with our own higher power than most of us are in the habit of using.
Tax breaks and other financial breaks that favor the wealthiest among us do not create greater prosperity for all; they simply siphon off more and more money to those who already have it, and more and more money away from those who do not.
It's tempting, when confronted by political malfeasance, to become so absorbed with its symptom that we give too little attention to treating its cause.
Sometimes it's easier to love people when there is a healthy distance between us.
You can't 'work through worry and fear rationally,' because fear isn't rational!
The number one root of all illness, as we know, is stress.
The man I love may decide tomorrow that he loves me no more - but if my heart remains open, I will endure the storm.
Trust is very hard if you don't know what you're trusting.
Your relationship to food is but a reflection of your relationship to yourself, as is everything in your life.
The speed of change today is faster than the human psyche seems able to handle, and it's increasingly difficult to reconcile the rhythms of our personal lives with the rapidity of a twenty-four-hour news cycle.
Life is not a piece of tragic fiction in which, at the end of the reading, we all get up and go out for drinks.
