Such is the situation in the world today whether regarding our personal lives or the world around us. Whether healing from personal challenges or witnessing the strains on our ecosystem or democracy, many of us are experiencing anxieties that go along with cataclysmic change. 2/

Personal & public crises however are opportunities for new possibilities - lessons often difficult in becoming who we need to be in order to make the changes that will heal our lives. Crises are portals if we choose to step into them to a life beyond what we experience now. 3/

To endure those crises whatever form they take, and most importantly to transform them, is the challenge of this moment. In the words of the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Come, my friends, ‘tis not too late to seek a newer world.” 4/

To transform the world we have to face with brutal honesty what’s happening now but also articulate clearly what it's possible to create instead. I’m collecting what I can from the wisdom of the ages and wisdom of this moment, and putting it together on mariannewilliamson.substack.… 5/

TRANSFORM is a chance for people to journey together to a deeper understanding. It's a support for our individual transformation, but also a community through which we join with others to help transform the world. 6/

Sometimes I’ll share a reflection in response to something happening in real time while other posts will be essays or interviews. There will be conversations with fascinating people as well as my new TRANSFORM podcast.The first podcast is coming Monday: TRANSFORMING CAPITALISM 7/

One post might be spiritual, one might be political, one might be deeply personal and one might be a discussion of forces larger than any one of us. Everything, however, will be geared to providing ideas and actions that can transform our lives and the world around us. 8/