How much suffering?

Marianne Williamson

I really want to recommend a very powerful article by Marianne Williamson entitled "A New Order of The Ages". Here's an excerpt:

In fact, America is going to change. The only question is whether we will choose to change by embracing wisdom - repudiating the lies of a dysfunctional, increasingly dangerous worldview of an economic system predicated on the goal of short-term economic gain for the privileged few - or we will be forced by circumstances to make a quantum leap into our next stage of growth, embracing humanitarian concern as the new organizing principle of human civilization. The only real question at this point is how much suffering will have to occur before we wake up to the lesson before us. We can change now, making the transition fairly peacefully (not that violence does not already rage); or we can refuse to change, thereby inviting a greater intensity of disaster with every day we wait.

Oh my. And oh yes. America is going to change.