This weekend I spent a lot of time curled up with Marianne Williamson's latest book called The Gift Of Change. Like The Translucent Revolution which I wrote about recently, she talks about the shift in consciousness that is gradually happening in our world. I was so inspired by this passage that I felt moved to share it here...

An underground revolution is sweeping the hearts and minds of the people of the world, and it is happening despite the wars and terror that confront us. This revolution is a fundamental change of worldview, and it carries with it the potential to reorganize the structure of human civilization. It brings a basic shift in the thoughts that dominate the world. It wages a peace that will end all war. It is a global phenomenon that will change the cellular structure of the human race. To those who are part of it, and feel called to it, its reality is a growing if not obvious truth. To still others, it's a lofty but ridiculous notion, a preposterous and sill idea.

Yet no social revolution of any import emerged because everybody woke up one day saying, "I get it! I get it!" Such revolutions emerged instead from what anthropologist Margaret Mead described as "a small group of concerned citizens." Not only are such groups capable of changing the world, according to Mead, but in fact, they're the only thing that ever has. And they are doing it now.

A spiritually attuned counterculture is already in our midst. It is marked not by clothes or music, drugs or sex, as was the counterculture of the sixties, but by the internal attitude of those who perceive it. They make suggestions and comments that are just a little bit wiser; they bring new insights into areas previously locked down by the status quo. They see some star in the sky that no everyone is seeing. And in their presence, we start to see it too. --From The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life by Marianne Williamson (Harper San Francisco)

Ohhhhhh, I LOVE reading those words...I love feeling like I get to contribute to the revolution she describes by promoting New World Library's amazing authors. I love celebrating my freedom by skipping down the street and not worrying about people who might thing I'm crazy for doing so...I love how it makes me feel like I am doing my tiny part to make the world around me a little more happy and free!

Onward! Upward! Together we CAN change the world!