In the words of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., “Your life begins to end on the day you stop talking about things that matter most.” That’s why we’re taking our campaign journey all the way to its completion: so we can talk about things that matter most.
I can’t thank you enough for investing in these final two weeks of talks in DC, Maryland, Oregon and New Mexico. None of us will ever be able to say we gave it less than our absolute all. #marianne2024
There is no platform for political conversation like a Presidential campaign. The hours I spent talking to eager, decent, intelligent people – so noble when called to be and so willing to make a change – put a light in my heart that will illumine my life forever. How I hope those experiences did the same for them. We didn’t just talk. We shared dreams and reflections of a better world. In the end, how very grateful I am. Despite the ugliness of modern politics, for those hours, and for those experiences, I would do it all again.
There is no platform for political conversation like a Presidential campaign. The hours I spent talking to eager, decent, intelligent people – so noble when called to be and so willing to make a change – put a light in my heart that will illumine my life forever. How I hope those experiences did the same for them. We didn’t just talk. We shared dreams and reflections of a better world. In the end, how very grateful I am. Despite the ugliness of modern politics, for those hours, and for those experiences, I would do it all again.
There is no platform for political conversation like a Presidential campaign. The hours I spent talking to eager, decent, intelligent people – so noble when called to be and so willing to make a change – put a light in my heart that will illumine my life forever. How I hope those experiences did the same for them. We didn’t just talk. We shared dreams and reflections of a better world. In the end, how very grateful I am. Despite the ugliness of modern politics, for those hours, and for those experiences, I would do it all again.
There is no platform for political conversation like a Presidential campaign. The hours I spent talking to eager, decent, intelligent people – so noble when called to be and so willing to make a change – put a light in my heart that will illumine my life forever. How I hope those experiences did the same for them. We didn’t just talk. We shared dreams and reflections of a better world. In the end, how very grateful I am. Despite the ugliness of modern politics, for those hours, and for those experiences, I would do it all again.
There is no platform for political conversation like a Presidential campaign. The hours I spent talking to eager, decent, intelligent people – so noble when called to be and so willing to make a change – put a light in my heart that will illumine my life forever. How I hope those experiences did the same for them. We didn’t just talk. We shared dreams and reflections of a better world. In the end, how very grateful I am. Despite the ugliness of modern politics, for those hours, and for those experiences, I would do it all again.
Today is a bit of a significant day for me; I won’t be using my political megaphone in the same way going forward. Tomorrow is the eclipse and I feel “ending and beginning” vibrations within myself. I will be speaking in Washington DC on Monday night, going to New Mexico and Oregon next week, then coming back to the East Coast to speak in Baltimore right after that. To find out more and support those efforts please see Marianne2024.com. But that group of talks will complete my campaign journey. They will give me the opportunity to speak my truth in places where I’m still on the ballot, which is important. For those of you in those areas I hope I will see you there, and that you will vote for me.
Martin Luther King Jr. said “the desegregation of the American South is the political externalization of the goal of the civil rights movement, but the ultimate goal is the establishment of the beloved community.” He said “we need external changes in our circumstances and internal shifts in our souls.” The transformational journey that will create a sustainable, even survivable future for the human race entails internal as well as external change.
Just as in medicine we realize an integrative approach is necessary to heal the body, we need an integrative approach to healing society as well. The politician of the future is like today’s functional medicine doctor. We need to deal with root causes as well as symptoms, and often those root causes have as much to do with thought and emotion as with anything material. The most powerful leader of the future is a practitioner of change on more levels than one.
Going back-and-forth between issues of spiritual change and political change is natural to the way I think. I have bristled when people within the political space have said I should “stay in my lane.” We are multidimensional people and therefore multidimensional citizens. There isn’t supposed to BE a “political lane” in America that leaves out the rest of us; the fact that there has become one has damaged this country greatly.
A lot of recalibration is going on now for all of us. Let’s embrace the changes and be open to receive. Miracles are in store. 🙏💖🌻
Tomorrow I go to New Mexico, then Oregon. I will end the trip with talks in Baltimore and Puerto Rico and then finit! Politically, I will have said my piece. I’ll have done all that I can do this political season to suggest to the American people that there might be a better way.
My last campaign event will be April 22nd, and the book will be published on May 7. I do wish, as I’m sure they do as well, that we had a bit more time to transition from my political to my spiritual offerings. But such schedules work the way they work, so we have seventeen days to switch from one part of the brain to the other…
Maybe it’s my Gemini ascendant that’s responsible for the way I go back and forth between two such different sets of mental operating systems. In my mind they’re not contradictory, however. As Martin Luther King said, “The desegregation of the American South is the political externalization of the goal of the civil rights movement, but the ultimate goal is the establishment of the beloved community.” He was a movement leader and also a Baptist preacher, saying it was “time to inject a new dimension of love into human civilization.” He, like Mahatma Gandhi before him, urged inner as well as outer change. By both realms of life I am intrigued, and to both I’m equally devoted. We need horizontal change that transforms our politics and vertical change that transforms our souls.
The universe is recalibrating itself in all of us, giving rise to new portals of possibility. If we’re alert, we see changes in both our circumstances and in ourselves. But there is a mystery to change and we should respect it. Sometimes we have to let go of what is no longer ours in order to receive what is calling to us now.
There was such a mystical hush during the eclipse on Monday, reminding me of when our electronics are on the fritz and we turn everything off for a few seconds to let the system reset itself. Surely the world is trying to do that. We are trying to change. We are trying to renew ourselves. One season passes and another now begins.
What a delight to receive a call from the great jazz guitarist Stanley Jordan offering to play at my New Mexico events this week. Last night I spoke in Santa Fe and tonight I will be in Albuquerque. Stanley’s gorgeous music took us to such deep place with ourselves. Later he told me that he feels he is doing with music what I’m doing with politics. If I’m expressing a fraction of the beauty that he is, then I’m grateful.
Enthusiastic crowds and standing ovations are much appreciated and also bittersweet at this point, as you can imagine. I’m clear that continuing to campaign has been the right decision, as we must have the deeper conversations despite the shenanigans of the political media industrial complex. People can still vote for our agenda in every state left where I’m still on the ballot: New Mexico, Oregon, Wyoming, Idaho, Guam, Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Maryland, and DC. While those votes won’t win the nomination, they continue to impact the ethers and shine light on the fact that millions of people in America still wish to forge a better way.
I lived in New Mexico 50 years ago for about a year and a half, and it holds a special place in my heart. A lot has changed in 50 years, but the energy has not. There is an enchantment here and I’m feeling it now the way I felt it then.
One day during that time, I was traveling with a friend and up in the sky we saw something incredible: a cloud formation of an undeniable, humongous spread eagle flying across the entire sky. No other clouds. If only we had had a camera … but the picture has stayed with me all these years. It was the most extraordinary thing.
It reminds me to believe in what’s possible. At a time of such sadness, with so many hearts unnecessarily torn, let’s hold on to the sounds of a beautiful guitar, images of clouds that seem to hold messages, and our prayers for a better world.
We need to do more than treat sickness; we need to proactively cultivate health. For that we need to stand up to Big Food, Big Ag and Big Chem as much as to Big Insurance and Big Pharma. Their dominance is literally weakening us as a nation.
Full interview with Roca News at the link in bio.
Part 1 of my Easter and Passover talk from a few years ago…
On @cspan’s Washington Journal | April 2, 2024
Full interview at the link in bio.
The impulse to create a better world is stymied when the vessels through which such an impulse should emerge are corrupted. From political parties to organized religion to social and political movements, institutions that should be carrying the torch are too often the ones most scared of the fire.
The “rebirth of freedom” on its way to us now will be like a tsunami that washes away entire landscapes of established realities. Large and small signs of an old order will pass away. Bigoted attitudes, smirks, blockages, prejudices, lack of ethics, self-centeredness, dishonor, arrogance, greed, smugness, control, dishonesty…some very high places created by those things will topple as the world re-forms. Nature has a way of recalibrating itself when humanity is moving too far in a loveless direction. Destruction is sometimes necessary in order for new creation to take place.
Humanity is now in the midst of a giant learning curve, which we can either embrace or resist. But the learning is coming. It’s not always up to us what we learn in life; it’s only up to us whether we learn through joy or through pain.
We can learn through wisdom and sober happiness and a willingness to change, or we can learn through suffering. But things will not be allowed to remain as they are; we have manufactured a reality too at odds with the natural order of things for the natural order of things to tolerate.
So often over the last year people would say to me, “The country is just not ready for you yet.” And I would think to myself, “What a pity.”
The American people have been played. #Marianne2024
The things that make a good person make a good nation: ethics and integrity and mercy and love. The lack of those things in our public policy have devastated this country, and as a generation we need to say so. #Marianne2024
Watch the full interview at the link in bio.
The winner in 2024 will be someone who says to voters, “I see your struggle, I validate your anger, and here are my solutions for doing something about it.”
Watch the full interview on The Letterhack at the link in bio.
Blessed to have U.S. Presidential candidate @mariannewilliamson with us for the past couple of days. As always, she tells it like it is, like no other. Another standing ovation, per usual 👏👏. To continue to share her messaging, she is continuing on campaign trail in states where she’s on the ballot. Her voice matters, and if we can collectively support her receiving 15% of vote in the Oregon, New Mexico, Idaho, Kentucky, or Wyoming, primaries in May, she would qualify for delegates at Democratic convention. I just registered to vote (for her) in Oregon 💥! #mariannewilliamson #2024presidentialcandidate #oregonprimary
Blessed to have U.S. Presidential candidate @mariannewilliamson with us for the past couple of days. As always, she tells it like it is, like no other. Another standing ovation, per usual 👏👏. To continue to share her messaging, she is continuing on campaign trail in states where she’s on the ballot. Her voice matters, and if we can collectively support her receiving 15% of vote in the Oregon, New Mexico, Idaho, Kentucky, or Wyoming, primaries in May, she would qualify for delegates at Democratic convention. I just registered to vote (for her) in Oregon 💥! #mariannewilliamson #2024presidentialcandidate #oregonprimary
We need a Department of Peace as well as a Department of Defense. We need to play peace games, as well as war games. We need armies of peace builders, as well as armies of military personnel. We need to shift the paradigm from feeding a forever war machine to consciously cultivating a world at peace.
Full talk can be found at the link in bio.
Part 2 of my Easter and Passover talk from a few years ago…
I spoke in Ossining, New York tonight. One of the most amazing things about the experience is how similar the audiences are all over the country. It’s such a privilege to have a chance to travel like this. On one hand, the various parts of the country are so different. But the faces in the crowd are so the same.
The intense listening. The obvious concern people feel for what’s happening in America, the intelligence you see so often displayed as a group, more so than you might necessarily pick up looking at any individual alone who is part of it. There clearly is such a thing as a group conscience.
Some people say Americans are apathetic right now, but I don’t think so at all. I think people are simply processing the moment. Many of us simply can’t believe that things have come to this. We’re so obviously in trouble. It feels like something broke, and we have to figure out a way to put it back together.
Tonight, as usual, someone asked me, “But what can we do?” and my answer is always the same: we’re doing it right now. We’re thinking all this through. We’re joining together and listening to each other, having a deep and meaningful conversation, and reflecting within ourselves on what it all means. The poet Rilke said we don’t always have the answer, and at times like that you simply live with the question. Wisdom has to marinate.
No powerful action happens unless it is first preceded by powerful thought. We need to think deeply, open our hearts as well as our minds, and then act with courage. What that specifically looks like in any one person’s life only that person can discern. But this is the moment, whatever it is. Let your heart crack open, and then do what it is that it tells you to do. 💖
The problem is not with the American people. The problem is with a sclerotic political system that acts like a lid pushing down on the American people, obstructing the fullest expression of our views and beliefs. #Marianne2024
Find the full Billy Harfosh interview at the link in bio.
An economic system should serve the people, but people today are living to serve an economic system. Economics has become our new false God. #Marianne2024.com
Watch the full talk at the link in bio.
My interview on The Letterhack…
The question on most people’s mind is “So what do we do now?”