When I was about fifteen I came across Marianne Williamson’s section on the shelf in our public library. The combination of cover and title A Woman’s Worth1, with reference to her companion book title, A Return to Love2, gripped my attention. It’s one of the very few times a book has positively hummed in my hands.
Or at least that’s how I remember it in the decades since.
There are moments you can look back to and catch sight of pivotal moments, portals that opened up a chamber of music that had only been an echo before.
This book painted for me the resonance between the princesses and queens of old style fairy tales and our lives today. Decades later I would refer to it in conversations in describing what I imagined as the archetypes of wise women and men.
“When we remember we are queens from another kingdom, then the kings in this one will wake up at last and honor our presence and open the gates. We won't storm the castle walls; we will melt the castle walls. Kings will then set a table for us to feast at instead of tossing us bones. They will recognize us when we recognize ourselves. We come bearing gifts from another realm. We bring illumination when our minds are illuminated… Wake up, damn it, and thank the stars. We have been playing so small and the crown is so huge. We will not wear it until we expand our heads.
Don't you get it? Can't you see? As we change our minds, we will change the world. And until we do, we will remain where we are. And all the laws and all the bashing and all the silly, childish, petty political arguments will continue for years, and for more years beyond, until women remember, followed by men, that a woman is a miracle....”- Marianne Williamson, A Woman’s Worth
In the years since, my insight has deepened. I’ve been knocked about by petty abuses of power, in my own struggle to keep swimming. I’ve begun to infer shades of the anger we carry, the resentment, entitlement, fury, rage, petulance, the ways we perpetuate abuses in our own choices and behavior. The ways we embrace a mentality of victimhood as self-justication.
There are ways I read things today, notes I hear that don’t flow with revelation, and then others that are so on point it takes my breath away.
“But the system I decry has a way of dealing with those who would challenge it. He who controls the narrative controls the world, and it isn’t hard - particularly with the media’s help - to get someone out of the game with a few well-placed lies and mischaracterizations, campaign infiltrators and corrupt officials. It’s not that hard in America today to make someone radioactive. The system will countenance no radical truth tellers or challenge to its authority. It has a way of keeping people in line.”
…Machiavellian, our system is. The cloaks and daggers would impress the Medicis. And nothing will change it until we the people retrieve our honor and courage…
A friend of mine said to me recently, “Yeah, but we can’t afford to tear the system down. Something even worse will rise up and replace it.” Absolutely, we mustn’t tear the system down.
But one thing is very clear to me: if we don’t transform it, it will implode.” 3
The necessity of our spiritual striving has been making itself more apparent in recent weeks. I view any effort to improve oneself within this material existence as part of our spiritual journey. As we choose to accept transformation for ourselves, the whole system must respond accordingly.
This is not about what we want others to do; it’s about recognizing that each of us is responsible for ourselves.
If we acknowledge our divine nature, embrace our capacity for choice, and recognize the support of the spirit world when we seek it with humility, then what else really matters, as long as we act to the best of our ability?
“In other words, we start looking at the things we’ve been doing in our lives that have created chaos, drama, and unmanageability. Instead of assuming all the bad shit in our lives was because of someone else, we start to entertain the idea that maybe, just maybe, I had something to do with the muck and mire of my life.”4
I spent the weekend in an education renewal retreat with parents seeking Spirit-Led Education, came home to receive word from Elizabeth of Sovereign about her How to Be a Miracle Worker course offering5, then watched Marianne Williamson’s video reflections and posts about Robert F. Kennedy’s speech as he defers his campaign6 along with all the backlash she’s gotten in response.
We can do this.
What if we all have the opportunity to step forward into our vision of what we’d like to be, in the miracle of faith?
“The hatred we're directing at other people for no other reason than that they have the audacity to disagree with us, is so toxic at this point that it's destroying the fabric of our society. No one owes it to us to agree with us! And no one has a monopoly on truth! Scorn should be saved for unjust systems, not individuals.”7
Let’s become miracle workers.
Elizabeth is offering free access to her How to Become a Miracle Worker course for another ten days or so. “Discover who the anointed ones are, recognize the metaphysics of conscious miracle-work, and become even more equipped for the extraordinary adventures yet to come.”
Let’s make an impact for good, among those we are with.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure… - Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love
A Woman’s Worth by Marianne Williamson on Audible and Amazon, “With A Woman's Worth, Marianne Williamson turns her charismatic voice—and the same empowering, spiritually enlightening wisdom that energized her landmark work, A Return to Love— to exploring the crucial role of women in the world today. Drawing deeply and candidly on her own experiences, the author illuminates her thought-provoking positions on such issues as beauty and age, relationships and sex, children and careers, and the reassurance and reassertion of the feminine in a patriarchal society.”
A Return to Love on Audible and Amazon, “Williamson reveals how we each can become a miracle worker by accepting God and by the expression of love in our daily lives. Whether psychic pain is in the area of relationships, career, or health, she shows us how love is a potent force, the key to inner peace, and how by practicing love we can make our own lives more fulfilling while creating a more peaceful and loving world for our children.”
Elizabeth of Sovereign’s How to Be a Miracle Worker
Marianne Williamson’s reaction to RFK Jr speech, Trump, the Democratic Party, and Kamala Harris
Marianne Williamson’s Facebook post “When the debate is lost, insults become the loser’s tool.” - Socrates
I wouldn't have expected to like Marianne Williamson, but I sure like those passages you shared - particularly the first.
Thank you!