Marianne Williamson Instagram – 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. 💖