{"id":24683,"date":"2023-12-06T15:22:57","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T20:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/?p=24683"},"modified":"2024-03-05T20:58:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T01:58:19","slug":"a-politics-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/a-politics-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"A Politics of Love &#8211; Marianne Williamson"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"24683\" class=\"elementor elementor-24683\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6f0f14d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6f0f14d\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b89363a\" data-id=\"b89363a\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ec807e7 elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-toggle\" data-id=\"ec807e7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"toggle.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-2471\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2471\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon elementor-toggle-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened\"><i class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened fas fa-caret-up\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-toggle-title\" tabindex=\"0\">Select a Quote<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-2471\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-2471\"><a href=\"https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/marianne-williamson-quotes\/?number=1\">\ud83c\udf3f \u201cThe reason we\u2019re such fertile ground for the dark forces of such lies&#8230;\u00a0<\/a>\n<div style=\"height: 4px\"><\/div>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/marianne-williamson-quotes\/?number=2\">\ud83c\udf3f \u201cIt takes courage\u2026to endure the sharp pains of self discovery&#8230;\u00a0<\/a>\n<div style=\"height: 4px\"><\/div>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/marianne-williamson-quotes\/?number=3\">\ud83c\udf3f \u201cMuch of traditional religious imagery has represented women&#8230;\u00a0<\/a>\n<div style=\"height: 4px\"><\/div>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/marianne-williamson-quotes\/?number=4\">\ud83c\udf3f \u201cWhen infants aren\u2019t held, they can become sick, even die&#8230;\u00a0<\/a>\n<div style=\"height: 4px\"><\/div>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/marianne-williamson-quotes\/?number=5\">\ud83c\udf3f \u201cOur deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. 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class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-81208f6 elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"81208f6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"><b> A Politics of Love: <\/b>\nA Handbook for a New American Revolution<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">by Marianne Williamson\n<\/span><\/h2>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marianne2024.com\/donate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/marianne2024.com\/donate<\/a><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\">\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"><b>An Empathy Circle Discussion Group\n<\/b> with Empathy Circle Facilitators\nDJ Chandler, Janna Weiss<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u201cHumanity has come to a fork in the road. There is a way marked Love and there is a way marked Fear, each path leading to more of the same . . . In our finest hours, America has stood for what humanity at our best aspires to be. We have sometimes succeeded and sometimes failed, but today, in our time, it is ours to decide our path as we move forward. Lady Liberty\u2019s torch is in our hands, but only we can determine whether it burns within our hearts.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u2013 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">A Politics of Love<\/span><\/p>\n<b style=\"font-weight: normal;\">\u00a0<\/b>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">In <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">A Politics of Love<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">, Democratic candidate for United States President Marianne Williamson confronts a politics of fear with a powerful new paradigm that turns love into a political force. Marianne urges all Americans to reach into our hearts to reclaim our love for democracy and our passion for the possible. Only that, she says, will heal our country and our world.<\/span><\/p>\n<b style=\"font-weight: normal;\">\u00a0<\/b>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">Marianne Williamson<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"> is an internationally acclaimed author, teacher, and activist. Six of her books have been New York Times bestsellers. Her books include <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">Healing the Soul of America<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">Tears to Triumph<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">A Return to Love<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">A Year of Miracles<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">The Law of Divine Compensation<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">The Gift of Change<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">The Age of Miracles<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">Everyday Grace<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">A Woman\u2019s Worth<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">, and <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">Illuminata<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<b style=\"font-weight: normal;\">\u00a0<\/b>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">A Politics of Love<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\nis available here: <\/span><\/h2>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/products\/a-politics-of-love-marianne-williamson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/products\/a-politics-of-love-marianne-williamson<\/a><\/h6>\n<b style=\"font-weight: normal;\">\u00a0<\/b>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">What is an Empathy Circle?\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\nAn Empathy Circle is a structured dialogue process based on mutual active listening. The process increases constructive dialogue, mutual understanding, and connection by ensuring that each person feels fully heard to their satisfaction. The basic process can be fairly easily learned in about 15 minutes or less. It&#8217;s a lifelong practice to deepen. The Empathy Circle practice is the most effective gateway practice for learning, practicing and deepening listening and empathy skills, as well as nurturing an empathic way of being. <\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">More info: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theempathycenter.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.theempathycenter.org\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<b>How to Empathy Circle:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.empathycircle.com\/how-to-empathy-circle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.empathycircle.com\/how-to-empathy-circle<\/a>\n<b style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\nHow to Empathy Circle: ( <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">multilingual<\/span> <b style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">)\n<a href=\"https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/how-to\/\">https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/how-to\/<\/a><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\">\n<\/b>EmpthyCircle outline:\u00a0 <b style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">( <\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">multilingual<\/span> <b style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">)<\/span><\/b>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/cohort\">https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/cohort<\/a>\n<b style=\"font-weight: normal;\">\n<\/b><\/p>\n\n<h2 style=\"font-style: normal; text-align: center;\">Sundays: January 7 \u2013 March 3, 2024<\/h2>\n<table>\n<tbody style=\"width: text-align: center;\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 32%; text-align: center;\">4 -5:30 PM\nPT<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 32%; text-align: center;\">\u00a06 -7:30 PM\nCT<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 32%; text-align: center;\">7 -8:30 PM\nET<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a4e4972 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"a4e4972\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-16 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-449e552\" data-id=\"449e552\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-38b309b\" data-id=\"38b309b\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-844751f bdt-motion-effect-yes elementor-widget elementor-widget-toggle\" data-id=\"844751f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"toggle.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-1381\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1381\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon elementor-toggle-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened\"><i class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened fas fa-caret-up\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-toggle-title\" tabindex=\"0\">A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-1381\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-1381\"><h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">by Marianne Williamson<br \/><\/span><\/h2><h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marianne2024.com\/donate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/marianne2024.com\/donate<\/a><\/h6><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\">\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;\"><b><u>An Empathy Circle Discussion Group<\/u><br \/><\/b> with Empathy Circle Facilitators<br \/>DJ Chandler, Janna Weiss<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u201cHumanity has come to a fork in the road. There is a way marked Love and there is a way marked Fear, each path leading to more of the same . . . In our finest hours, America has stood for what humanity at our best aspires to be. We have sometimes succeeded and sometimes failed, but today, in our time, it is ours to decide our path as we move forward. Lady Liberty\u2019s torch is in our hands, but only we can determine whether it burns within our hearts.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u2013 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">A Politics of Love<\/span><\/p><p><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\">\u00a0<\/b><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">In <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">A Politics of Love<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">, Democratic candidate for United States President Marianne Williamson confronts a politics of fear with a powerful new paradigm that turns love into a political force. Marianne urges all Americans to reach into our hearts to reclaim our love for democracy and our passion for the possible. Only that, she says, will heal our country and our world.<\/span><\/p><p><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\">\u00a0<\/b><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">Marianne Williamson<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"> is an internationally acclaimed author, teacher, and activist. Six of her books have been New York Times bestsellers. Her books include <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">Healing the Soul of America<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">Tears to Triumph<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">A Return to Love<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">A Year of Miracles<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">The Law of Divine Compensation<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">The Gift of Change<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">The Age of Miracles<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">Everyday Grace<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">A Woman\u2019s Worth<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">, and <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">Illuminata<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\">\u00a0<\/b><\/p><h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 15pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">A Politics of Love<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"><br \/>is available here: <\/span><\/h2><h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/products\/a-politics-of-love-marianne-williamson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/products\/a-politics-of-love-marianne-williamson<\/a><\/h6><p><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\">\u00a0<\/b><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">What is an Empathy Circle?<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"><br \/>An Empathy Circle is a structured dialogue process based on mutual active listening. The process increases constructive dialogue, mutual understanding, and connection by ensuring that each person feels fully heard to their satisfaction. The basic process can be fairly easily learned in about 15 minutes or less. It&#8217;s a lifelong practice to deepen. The Empathy Circle practice is the most effective gateway practice for learning, practicing and deepening listening and empathy skills, as well as nurturing an empathic way of being.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">More info: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theempathycenter.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.theempathycenter.org\/<\/a><\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"><br \/><b>How to Empathy Circle:<\/b><\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.empathycircle.com\/how-to-empathy-circle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.empathycircle.com\/how-to-empathy-circle<\/a><br \/><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><\/b><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"><br \/>How to Empathy Circle: ( <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">multilingual<\/span> <b style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">)<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/how-to\/\">https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/how-to\/<\/a><\/span><\/b><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><br \/><\/b>EmpthyCircle outline:\u00a0 <b style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">( <\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">multilingual<\/span> <b style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">)<\/span><\/b><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/cohort\">https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/cohort<\/a><br \/><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><br \/><\/b><\/p><h2 style=\"font-style: normal; text-align: center;\">Sundays: January 7 \u2013 March 3, 2024<\/h2><table><tbody style=\"width: text-align: center;\"><tr><td style=\"width: 32%; text-align: center;\">4 -5:30 PM<br \/>PT<\/td><td style=\"width: 32%; text-align: center;\">\u00a06 -7:30 PM<br \/>CT<\/td><td style=\"width: 32%; text-align: center;\">7 -8:30 PM<br \/>ET<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-16 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-91c2625\" data-id=\"91c2625\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6c6f66b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6c6f66b\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-16 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7203e09\" data-id=\"7203e09\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-dd689d8\" data-id=\"dd689d8\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-07142d5 bdt-motion-effect-yes elementor-widget elementor-widget-toggle\" data-id=\"07142d5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"toggle.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-7421\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-7421\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon elementor-toggle-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened\"><i class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened fas fa-caret-up\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-toggle-title\" tabindex=\"0\">Week One: January 7 -  Chapter 1: Love in a Time of Crisis<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-7421\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-7421\"><p><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Love in a Time of Crisis: <\/span>Lessons in Fear and Love &#8230;\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">Pages 1-34\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><b>Suggested topic: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What does \u201ca politics of love\u201d mean to you?<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">or: Whatever is alive in you.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p><div style=\"height: 4px;\">\u00a0<\/div><div style=\"height: 4px;\">\u00a0<\/div><h1><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal;\">Marianne\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal;\">Williamson Quotes:<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/h1><div style=\"height: 4px;\">\u00a0<\/div><hr \/><div style=\"border-radius: 20px; text-align: left; border: thin solid black; padding: 3%; margin: 1px; line-height: 180%; font-weight: 600; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 100%;\"><p style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">&#8220;To the <b>analytical mind<\/b>, the journey of the <b>soul <\/b>seems irrelevant. <\/span><\/p><div style=\"color: #000000; height: 1px;\">\u00a0<\/div><p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><b>And that is the beast.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 600; color: #008080;\">From there, we are lost<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 600; color: #008080;\">.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p><div style=\"color: #000000; height: 4px;\">\u00a0<\/div><h6><span style=\"color: #008080;\">\u00a0<\/span> <span style=\"color: #999999;\">see also:<\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\"> <a style=\"color: #808080;\" href=\"https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/fundamental-attribution-error\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Fundamental A.E.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/h6><\/div><p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><br \/>&#8220;<b>The ego mind is very sly <\/b>and it\u2019s not a big leap from <b>ignoring the pain<\/b> of others to ignoring the fact that you yourself are <b>inflicting pain<\/b> on others<span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p><div style=\"height: 4px;\">\u00a0<\/div><p><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Once we give ourselves social permission to think that money, not love, is the organizing principle of a well-adjusted society, <b>chaos is inevitable<\/b>.<\/span><\/p><hr \/><div style=\"height: 4px;\">\u00a0<\/div><p style=\"font-size: 17px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 17px; color: #008080;\"><b>Yet American politics <\/b>has developed for decades in a direction that has had increasing disregard for such tender mercies.\u00a0 \u00a0Hard data,\u00a0 \u00a0hard facts, and quantifiable factors are what\u2019s deemed to be real \u2014 serious, sophisticated, and relevant \u2014 making the <b>separation of head from heart more justifiable <\/b>and tenable.<\/span><\/p><p>Williamson, Marianne. A Politics of Love\u00a0 \u00a0(p. 8).\u00a0<br \/><span style=\"font-size: 17px; color: #008080;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; color: #808080; font-weight: 600;\">see also:\u00a0 <\/span><a style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 600; background-color: #ffffff; color: #808080;\" href=\"https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/fundamental-attribution-error#COGNITIVE_DISSONANCE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201ccognitive dissonance\u201d<\/a><\/p><hr \/><div style=\"height: 4px;\">\u00a0<\/div><p style=\"font-size: 17px;\"><b>We are<\/b> living, breathing, <b>divinely created beings<\/b> on this earth for a high and mighty purpose. No politics, and no political establishment, that<b> fails to see us that way<\/b> or treat us that way is worthy.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">~Williamson, Marianne. A Politics of Love\u00a0 (pp. 9-10)<\/span><\/p><hr \/><div style=\"height: 4px;\">\u00a0<\/div><div style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0<\/div><p><b>We don\u2019t just need a progressive politics <\/b>or a conservative politics; we need a more deeply <b>human<\/b> politics. <b>We need a politics of love<\/b>. p. 10<\/p><hr \/><div style=\"height: 4px;\">\u00a0<\/div><p style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">America has been driven into a <\/span><b>corporate straitjacket<\/b>&#8230; Our government has become a <b>system of legalized bribery&#8230; money and power<\/b>.<\/p><hr \/><div style=\"height: 4px;\">\u00a0<\/div><p>A fear-based, <b>undemocratic<\/b> influence has infected some of our most important institutions, and <b>ancient thought forms of oppression and domination<\/b> have reappeared among us. And we, like generations before us, are <b>called upon to respond.<\/b><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 17px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Williamson, Marianne. A Politics of Love\u00a0 (p. 11).<\/p><hr \/><div style=\"height: 4px;\">\u00a0<\/div><p><b>A politics of love is a holistic <\/b>perspective on human change, addressing the internal as well as external aspects of societal dysfunction. p. 14<\/p><p>The love that will save the world is not only a love for our own children, but a love for <b>everyone\u2019s children<\/b>.\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: 400;\">And it isn\u2019t just a desire to save our own homes; it\u2019s a realization that <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\"><b>this planet is everyone\u2019s home<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>We need a <b>revolution of the heart<\/b>. p. 18<\/p><p><b>A democratic revolution can\u2019t be fought\u00a0 once<\/b>, as in 1776, and then simply considered handled. p. 22<\/p><div><b>Our current politics<\/b> is more on the level of gossip magazines. It is shallow and tawdry, an unworthy vehicle for grappling with the meaning of what we are going through.<\/div><div>Williamson, Marianne. A Politics of Love\u00a0 \u00a0(p. 24).<\/div><hr \/><div style=\"height: 4px;\">\u00a0<\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>A politics of love sees the world through <\/span><b>reverent <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">eyes, viewing love, not economics, as the most enlightened organizing <\/span><b>principle<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for human civilization.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This view represents a fundamental change in our human, political, and economic priorities\u2014not merely an incremental approach to bettering society.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Williamson, Marianne. A Politics of Love\u00a0 (p. 27).\u00a0<\/span><\/p><hr \/><div style=\"height: 4px;\">\u00a0<\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>In the words of the French philosopher\u00a0<\/span><b>Pierre Teilhard de Chardin<\/b><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: 400;\">, \u201cSomeday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: 400;\">Williamson, Marianne. A Politics of Love\u00a0 (pp. 27-28).\u00a0<\/span><\/p><hr \/><div style=\"height: 4px;\">\u00a0<\/div><p><b>It is not naive<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to suggest that we reorient our politics around love\u2019s purposes. What\u2019s <\/span><b>naive is to think that we can afford not to<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and retain either our freedom or <\/span><b>our survival as a species<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: 400;\">Williamson, Marianne. A Politics of Love\u00a0 (p. 28).\u00a0<\/span><\/p><hr \/><div style=\"height: 4px;\">\u00a0<\/div><p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><b>When I was growing up<\/b>, the one thing that was never allowed in our house was whining. We were told that if we had a challenge, we had to rise to it. And where the world was broken, it was our job to repair it. My father grew up in deep poverty and was very sensitive to issues of social justice. He knew what it meant to be poor, he knew what it meant to be hungry, and he knew how large and powerful systems can keep such misery in place. Throughout my childhood, a constant refrain was \u201c<b>Fight the system, kids! Fight the system<\/b>!\u00a0\u00a0<br \/><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Williamson, Marianne. A Politics of Love (p. 30).<\/span><\/span><\/p><hr \/><div style=\"height: 4px;\">\u00a0<\/div><p><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Too often, when it comes to the suffering of others, we look <b>but we do not see<\/b>. When I became an adult and began to write and speak about spirituality, my father at first seemed to think I\u2019d betrayed his<b> values<\/b>.\u00a0 He had taught me about society at large, and he could not understand my focus on personal<b> transformation<\/b>.\u00a0 <br \/><b>\u201cI raised you to fight the system<\/b>, to <b>wage the revolution<\/b>!\u201d he exclaimed to me one day. I replied, \u201cBut, Daddy, I am! <b>Love is the revolution!\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>It\u2019s the only way that things will fundamentally change.\u201d I saw a <b>twinkle in my father\u2019s eye<\/b> when I said that. <b>He did understand.\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><b>One of my most precious memories<\/b> is walking into my parents\u2019 bathroom one day when my father was shaving. He was listening to one of the early<b> cassette tapes of my lectures<\/b>, and as I entered the room <b>he turned to me<\/b>, put down his razor for a moment, and said, \u201c<b>Very good, Little Sister. I\u2019m proud of you.<\/b>\u201d Today, twenty years after my father\u2019s death, I feel at times like I\u2019m still trying to get his approval.<\/span><span style=\"color: #161616; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 400;\">\u2764\ufe0f<\/span><\/p><p>Williamson, Marianne. A Politics of Love\u00a0 (p. 31).<\/p><hr \/><div style=\"height: 4px;\">\u00a0<\/div><p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal;\">Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.\u201d Martin Luther King Jr.<br \/><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-16 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7485715\" data-id=\"7485715\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5c44c58 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5c44c58\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-16 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-36a4a44\" data-id=\"36a4a44\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c471575\" data-id=\"c471575\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a7d29ea bdt-motion-effect-yes elementor-widget elementor-widget-toggle\" data-id=\"a7d29ea\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"toggle.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-1751\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1751\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon elementor-toggle-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened\"><i class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened fas fa-caret-up\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-toggle-title\" tabindex=\"0\">Week Two: January 14 - Chapter\u00a02: A Revolution of Love<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-1751\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-1751\"><p><b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">A Revolution of Love: Reviewing the Plot\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">Pages 35-68 (34 pages)<\/span><b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/b><\/p><p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #000000; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff;\">\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; color: #000000; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal;\">Suggested topic:<br \/><\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal;\">How might imagination and\/or knowledge contribute to a <u>revolution of love<\/u>?<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal;\">&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">or: Whatever is alive in you.<\/span><\/p><h1 style=\"font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 23px; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-size: 23px; font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal;\">Marianne\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal;\">Williamson <i>A Politics of Love<\/i> Quotes:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h1><p>&#8220;You can&#8217;t pick up a novel in the middle of the book and have any idea what\u2019s going on&#8230; the same is true with story of a nation.\u00a0 <span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">(p. 35)<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>Knowledge is power, and withholding knowledge is a tool of all oppressive systems. Under resourcing education, particularly among children, and corporate consolidation of the news media have been powerful tools in the dumbing down of the American mind. Without an informed and passionate citizenry, democracy is not a problem for its enemies at all. <\/span>(p. 38)<\/p><p>With our imagination, we give birth to new realities. We can envision the world we want and then work back from there. We can imagine a world at peace, a planet healed, and all sentient beings happy. We can visualize those things and commit ourselves to their manifestation. <span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">(pp. 64-65)<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">We need to recognize that the endless application of brute force will not bring peace to the world, and that only the soul force of justice, meaningful human relationships, forgiveness, and compassion can end the scourge of violence on our streets and throughout the world. p. 63<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">With our imagination, we give birth to new realities. We can envision the world we want and then work back from there. We can imagine a world at peace, a planet healed, and all sentient beings happy. We can visualize those things and commit ourselves to their manifestation. (pp. 64-65)<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u201cMarianne surprised me in these pages. She revealed her sense of history and made it clear that historical knowledge, memory, and consciousness matter. In fact, it was the best presidential campaign book I had ever read. And I have read most of them\u201d <br \/>~ Harvey J. Kaye <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marwilliamson\/status\/1744103724383932652\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/marwilliamson\/status\/1744103724383932652<\/a><\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><hr \/><p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Video of pages 59-60<\/span><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/summerbrighton\/status\/1661467277261438976\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/summerbrighton\/status\/1661467277261438976<\/a><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><!-- iframe style=\"width: 990px; height: 920px;\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1VTWMvAD_WTQXXX2Dh4aM1Knu56QoBT1aBtNMPoWEvOM\/edit\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\"&gt;<br \/>&lt;\/iframe--><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-16 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-efc8bf1\" data-id=\"efc8bf1\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7b1721b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7b1721b\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-16 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a97ba5f\" data-id=\"a97ba5f\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5173d30\" data-id=\"5173d30\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-172ef1d bdt-motion-effect-yes elementor-widget elementor-widget-toggle\" data-id=\"172ef1d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"toggle.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-2431\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2431\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon elementor-toggle-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened\"><i class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened fas fa-caret-up\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-toggle-title\" tabindex=\"0\">Week Three: January 21 - Chapter 3: Love and Conflict<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-2431\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-2431\"><p><b>Love and Conflict: Disagreeing <u><i>With Love\u00a0<\/i><\/u><\/b><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: 400;\">Pages 69-96 (28 pages)\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal;\"><b>Suggested topic:\u00a0<\/b><br \/>How might listening open a safe space for sharing?<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal;\">or&#8230; whatever is alive in you.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;\"><i>A Politics of Love<\/i> Quotes:\u00a0<br \/><\/span><\/p><p>A politics of love has as much to do with <b>how we listen <\/b>as with the things we say. Partly because I had shared with them an Easter service filled with prayer and meditation that morning, and partly because my friends are lovely people whom I genuinely like, I could hear them at lunch that day without reactivity. <b>I felt no constriction in my heart,<\/b> no negativity, no judgment. We were meeting in <b>Rumi\u2019s field \u201cbeyond good and bad, right and wrong,\u201d which is <u>the only place where souls can meet<\/u><\/b>.\u00a0 I heard a thing or two that deepened my understanding of where they were coming from, and I like to think that maybe I said a thing or two that had an impact on them as well. I mentioned at the table that it should be part of our <b><u>spiritual practice<\/u> to remember that no one has a monopoly on truth<\/b>.\u00a0 Our capacity to<b> listen <\/b>to each other is more urgently needed now . . . (pp. 70-71)<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>&#8220;While the\u00a0\u00a0<u>ego<\/u>\u00a0 always monitors <u>other people<\/u>\u2019s<b> thoughts and behavior<\/b>, the<b> <u>spirit would have us monitor only our own<\/u>&#8230;\u00a0<\/b><\/p><p>&#8230;it is only in <b>purifying our own hearts<\/b> that we have any chance of touching someone else\u2019s&#8230;\u00a0<\/p><p><b><u>That has to be our goal now<\/u><\/b>: not mere defeat of political opponents, but also engagement in the art of moral persuasion \u2014 the ability to so<b> commune with the heart<\/b> of another that <b><u>real communication<\/u> can occur<\/b>.\u00a0<\/p><p>Williamson, Marianne. A Politics of Love\u00a0 \u00a0(p. 76).\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>This is not a time for personal weakness, but for strength. <b>The only <u>real strength is love<\/u><\/b>; love makes us vulnerable, but in a way that makes us strong. It doesn\u2019t turn us into wounded birds. It makes us powerful and strong and courageous, intellectually and emotionally. <u>We must <b>not indulge<\/b> our hopelessness<\/u> now, resigning ourselves to the idea that the <u>concentrated assaults on everything<\/u> from the planet to our democracy have succeeded to such a degree that it\u2019s no longer possible to stop them. <br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;\">~Williamson, Marianne. A Politics of Love\u00a0<\/span>(pp. 90-91)<\/p><hr \/><p><!-- iframe style=\"width: 990px; height: 920px;\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1Se0GwKkKid2iWVsOYSlb_jaG0rYr-H-8JJEsLxV_nF8\/edit\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\"&gt;<br \/>&lt;\/iframe --><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-16 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-72a3266\" data-id=\"72a3266\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7070677 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7070677\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-16 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d92beb5\" data-id=\"d92beb5\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b5898e3\" data-id=\"b5898e3\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cb0a542 bdt-motion-effect-yes elementor-widget elementor-widget-toggle\" data-id=\"cb0a542\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"toggle.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-2121\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2121\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon elementor-toggle-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened\"><i class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened fas fa-caret-up\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-toggle-title\" tabindex=\"0\">Week Four: January 28 - Chapter 4: Economics of Love<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-2121\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-2121\"><p><strong>Economics of Love: A New Bottom Line<\/strong><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: 400;\">Pages 97-132 (36 pages)<br \/><\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: bold;\">Suggested topic:<br \/><\/span>\u00a0What do you think about honesty and kindness related to economics?\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: bold;\"><i>A Politics of Love<\/i> Quotes:\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><div>&#8220;Back when our government supported the values of democracy over an obsequious adherence to <b>corporatist demands, corporations<\/b> had more incentive to do the right thing. Yet time and time again, Americans are asked to support measures that will aid corporate interests as\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">opposed to their own, the very interests that <b>crucify America<\/b>\u2019s economy and <b>then present themselves <\/b>as our economic saviors\u2014a brilliant strategy and one that is working.\u00a0 But it will not work forever.\u00a0 In the words of Abraham Lincoln, \u201cYou can fool all the people some of the time, some of the people all the time, <u>but you cannot fool all the people all the time<\/u>.\u201d We\u2019re in the midst of a new American awakening, as more and more people realize that <u>a company of thieves is a company of thieves<\/u>, no matter how mild-mannered, educated, well-spoken, or generous to charity they might be. He <u>who steals billions from the public<\/u> but then throws a few million to charity is<b> not <\/b>someone deserving of thanks. Private giving is important, but so is <u>public fairness<\/u>. Charity matters, but no amount of private charity can compensate for a basic <u>lack of social justice<\/u>.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>~Williamson, Marianne. A Politics of Love\u00a0(pp. 117-118)<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><p>The narrative of our past is not one in which Americans consistently folded in the face of economic injustice; it is one in which, more typically, the American people railed against such injustice and ultimately prevailed. The question of whether capitalism has a moral responsibility to people and the planet is not new. American brilliance applied to business has always been one of our greatest strengths, but we are also a people for whom ethics matters. Our history has been marked by an ongoing struggle between the engines of economic prosperity, on the one hand, and the ethical considerations that make life meaningful and righteous, on the other. The sacrifice of our moral core to the false god of short-term economic gain is as morally dangerous for our society as it is for an individual. A morality that\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">applies to everything except the things that affect real people\u2019s daily lives is not morality at all. It is our moral responsibility to insist on just enough regulation of American business and to give enough pushback to an otherwise unfettered, amoral capitalism.<br \/><\/span>~Williamson, Marianne. A Politics of Love\u00a0(pp. 120-121)\u00a0<\/p><p>An unfettered global capitalism, untethered to any ethical considerations beyond its fiduciary responsibility to stockholders, is both a political and <u style=\"font-size: 17px;\">spiritual abomination<\/u>. Any system that lacks compassion, love, and conscience is out of alignment with the moral laws of the universe and in time will produce <u style=\"font-size: 17px;\">chaos<\/u>. It is spiritual voices that should decry such injustice\u2014and often do. In his 2013 exhortation on global capitalism, Pope Francis said: While the earnings of the minority are growing exponentially, so, too, is the gap <u style=\"font-size: 17px;\">separating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by those happy few<\/u>.\u00a0 The imbalance is the result of ideologies which defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation. . . . A new <u style=\"font-size: 17px;\">tyranny is thus born, invisible<\/u> and often virtual, which relentlessly imposes its own laws and rules. . . . The <u style=\"font-size: 17px;\">thirst for power and possessions<\/u> knows no limits. In this system, which tends to devour everything that stands in the way of increased profits, whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenseless before the interests of a deified market, which become the only rule. (pp. 124-125)\u00a0<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eileenfisher.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eileen Fisher<\/a>\u00a0said that she believed stock sharing with employees should be mandatory. \u201cI think corporations should have to share a minimum 10 percent of their profits with the people working. It\u2019s not socialism; it\u2019s good for business.\u201d\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>&#8220;Whole Foods CEO John Mackey has founded a movement called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=72HFGoY0Rrc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>conscious capitalism<\/b><\/a>,\u201d calling upon corporate leaders to reintroduce ethics and values into corporate governance.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>&#8220;Danone Corporation, converted its entire corporate structure to a B-Corporation (or B-Corp.). A B-Corp. bases its success on social and environmental performance, going beyond profit maximization.<\/p><p>~Williamson, Marianne. A Politics of Love\u00a0 (p. 126).\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">There are good politicians who see what has happened and are trying to change it. There are good corporate leaders who see what has happened and are trying to change it. There are good social and political activists who see what has happened and are trying to change it. It\u2019s time for the rest of us to weigh in.<br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;\">~Williamson, Marianne. A Politics of Love<\/span>\u00a0(p. 132)<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;A Journey to Conscious Capitalism&#8221;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=72HFGoY0Rrc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=72HFGoY0Rrc<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-16 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0762f6a\" data-id=\"0762f6a\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3aae4d4 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3aae4d4\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-16 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6110549\" data-id=\"6110549\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7725d85\" data-id=\"7725d85\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-627ff6e bdt-motion-effect-yes elementor-widget elementor-widget-toggle\" data-id=\"627ff6e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"toggle.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-1031\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1031\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon elementor-toggle-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened\"><i class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened fas fa-caret-up\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-toggle-title\" tabindex=\"0\">Week Five: February 4 - Chapter 5: American Youth<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-1031\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-1031\"><p><strong>American Youth: Equal Rights for Angels<\/strong><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Pages 133-154 (22 pages)<br \/><\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: bold;\">Suggested topic:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;\">How might a politics of love help all children?<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: bold;\">&#8230; or&#8230; whatever is alive in you?\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: bold;\"><i>A Politics of Love<\/i> Quotes:\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>So many of America\u2019s children are endangered<\/strong> either physically or emotionally, it should be seen as a humanitarian emergency. Obviously, the problem isn\u2019t that we don\u2019t love our children. But the love that will save the world is not just love for our own children. It is also love for children on the other side of town and the other side of the world. For every problem, whether personal or societal, the solution lies in the realization of our oneness and the expansion of our love. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\">~<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><i>A Politics of Love<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\">, Marianne Williamson\u00a0<\/span>(pp. 133-134)\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Who is to speak for them, if not us? And that is why politics matters. It\u2019s not something \u201cover there\u201d to people whose lives must bear the impact of policies that work against their interests every day. An issue shouldn\u2019t spark us only if it happens to impact us personally. Politics shouldn\u2019t be just about you and yours, or me and mine. It\u2019s about we and ours. Politics is the purview of our collective sensibilities and our collective decision-making. It should be a place where we address more than just what we want for ourselves; it should be a place where we come together to consider what is right for America. There\u2019s a bigger question in life than \u201cHow am I doing?\u201d And that\u2019s \u201cHow are we doing?\u201d <u>Millions of children<\/u> living in chronic distress in the richest country in the world is a form of collective child neglect. And that should matter to all of us. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\">~A Politics of Love, #Marianne_Williamson\u00a0<\/span>(p. 136)\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><b><br \/>Seventy-eight percent of incarcerated inmates<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in America came out of the child welfare system.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\">~A Politics of Love, #Marianne_Williamson\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: 400;\">(p. 137)\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">An increase in the number of children sent to foster care is a problem. The fact that the sex-trafficking industry has infiltrated the network of foster-care parents and even hovers over schools is a problem. But perhaps the worst problem of all is how desensitized we are to the urgency of the problem. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\">~A Politics of Love, #Marianne_Williamson\u00a0<\/span>(p. 137)\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>In the words of Nelson Mandela, \u201c<\/span><b>There can be no keener revelation of a society\u2019s soul than the way in which it treats its children<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d <br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\">~A Politics of Love, #Marianne_Williamson\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(p. 142)<\/span><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Of course, we should teach our children reading, writing, and arithmetic. But our educational system should expand to include a more <b>whole-person vision<\/b> of what it takes to prepare a child for <b>self-actualized life<\/b> in the twenty-first century. We should help our children develop the <b>emotional and psychological skills<\/b> to navigate life in what has become an extremely complex world. Until we do that, our educational system will remain inadequate despite whatever funding we put into it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center; color: #000000;\">~A Politics of Love, #Marianne_Williamson\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">(p. 147)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/div><p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">&#8211;<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Children should be taught not only what to think\u2014as in science and math\u2014but also how to think, as in honing their critical thought processes so they know how to think for themselves. America\u2019s educational system should be the<\/span><b style=\"font-size: 17px;\"> crown jewel<\/b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\"> of America\u2019s investment portfolio, our greatest asset in producing creativity and progress. In the words of the poet William Butler Yeats, \u201cEducation is not the filling of a pail, but the <\/span><b style=\"font-size: 17px;\">lighting <\/b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">of a fire.\u201d (p. 148)\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"font-size: 17px; background-color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/rfkhumanrights.org\/marian-wright-edelman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marion Wright Edelman<\/a>,\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">founder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Children%E2%80%99s+Defense+Fund&amp;oq=Children%E2%80%99s+Defense+Fund\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Children\u2019s Defense Fund<\/a>, <br \/>has termed the \u201c<span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: bold;\">cradle to prison\u201d pipeline<\/span>\u00a0is\u00a0<br \/><u style=\"font-size: 17px;\">a moral scourge upon our country. \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\u00a0<\/u><\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\">~A Politics of Love, #Marianne_Williamson (p. 150)<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayalinstudio.com\/architecture\/langston-hughes-library\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/childrrrens-defence-fund-langston-01.jpg\" alt=\"Children\u2019s Defense Fund :: architect Maya Ying Lin\u00a0\" width=\"750\" height=\"589\" \/><\/a><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"font-size: 17px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Children%E2%80%99s+Defense+Fund&amp;oq=Children%E2%80%99s+Defense+Fund\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Children\u2019s Defense Fund<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0:: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayalinstudio.com\/architecture\/langston-hughes-library\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>architect<\/em> Maya Ying Lin<\/a><\/p><p><b><br \/>Nothing holds more promise<\/b> for the twenty-first century than a radical rethinking of our <b>responsibility to children<\/b> and young adults.\u00a0 This country should undertake a massive <b>realignment of our resources in the direction of the young<\/b>.\u00a0 \u00a0 We should make college or technical school available to everyone. We should cancel most college debts. And why should we do all these things?\u00a0 <br \/><b>To unshackle the American spirit<\/b>, to release the chains that bind our circumstances, to liberate the potential in every citizen . . . and then to watch this country soar!\u00a0 \u00a0America\u2019s problem is the<b> problem of a constricted <u>heart<\/u><\/b>.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0As individuals we are a good and decent people, but as a society we <b>have become rather mean<\/b>. It is time to reconsider. It is time to <b>self-correct<\/b>. <br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\">~A Politics of Love, #Marianne_Williamson\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">(pp. 152-153)<\/span><\/p><p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p><p style=\"white-space-collapse: preserve; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>via Janna:<\/strong> Twitter thread on children\u2019s rights <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealJannaWeiss\/status\/1724544365496848824\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 14px; color: #0e72ed; background-color: transparent;\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealJannaWeiss\/status\/1724544365496848824<\/span><\/a> <br \/><br \/><\/p><p>Child Welfare Abolition<\/p><p>Human Rights Watch | If I wasn\u2019t poor, I wouldn\u2019t be unfit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/report\/2022\/11\/17\/if-i-wasnt-poor-i-wouldnt-be-unfit\/family-separation-crisis-us-child-welfare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/report\/2022\/11\/17\/if-i-wasnt-poor-i-wouldnt-be-unfit\/family-separation-crisis-us-child-welfare<\/a><\/p><p>NPR: &#8216;Deluged&#8217; child welfare systems struggle to protect kids amid calls for reform<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/11\/30\/1211781955\/deluged-child-welfare-systems-struggle-to-protect-kids-amid-calls-for-reform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/11\/30\/1211781955\/deluged-child-welfare-systems-struggle-to-protect-kids-amid-calls-for-reform<\/a><\/p><p>Repeal CAPTA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.repealcapta.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.repealcapta.org<\/a><\/p><p>TAKE ACTION Scroll down for individual sign-on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.repealcapta.org\/take-action\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.repealcapta.org\/take-action<\/a><\/p><p><strong>1966: Children Imagine life in the year 2000<\/strong><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xS8xX3usi4c&amp;list=TLPQMDMwMjIwMjSKw9NDq0Kdyw&amp;index=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xS8xX3usi4c&amp;list=TLPQMDMwMjIwMjSKw9NDq0Kdyw&amp;index=3<\/a><\/p><p style=\"white-space-collapse: preserve; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0px;\"><br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><\/p><p><!-- iframe style=\"width: 990px; height: 920px;\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1SZWAK8jDQDsYIqYrB9ZWvcwF8ogRMp0_JkljSaD9lZw\/edit\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" --><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-16 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4dee46b\" data-id=\"4dee46b\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-714d5bf elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"714d5bf\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-16 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-fef33d6\" data-id=\"fef33d6\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1901392\" data-id=\"1901392\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5ba7ed7 bdt-motion-effect-yes elementor-widget elementor-widget-toggle\" data-id=\"5ba7ed7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"toggle.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-9611\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-9611\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon elementor-toggle-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened\"><i class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened fas fa-caret-up\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-toggle-title\" tabindex=\"0\">Week Six: February 11 - Chapter 6: Race and Repentance<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-9611\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-9611\"><p><strong>Race and Repentance: Out of Many, One<\/strong><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: 400;\">Pages 155-174 (20 pages)<\/span><\/p><p><b><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Suggested topic:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/b><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\">How can we abolish racism and how can we build beloved community?<\/span><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: bold;\">&#8230; or&#8230;<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">whatever is alive in you&#8230;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/p><div><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: bold;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div><p><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: bold;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: bold;\"><i>A Politics of Love<\/i> Quotes:\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #008080;\">No one always gets everything right, and neither does any country. Sometimes people and countries can do bad things. But the atonement principle, universal to all serious spiritual systems, posits the power of repentance. We can atone for our mistakes, make meaningful amends, and behave differently going forward. No life, and no country, can redeem itself otherwise.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #008080;\">The law of cause and effect, or what in the East is called karma, is the spiritual principle that organizes the universe. It is an unalterable law that every cause will create an effect; love calls forth love, and lovelessness calls forth lovelessness. Only through atonement and amends can this law be overridden. We can change things at the level of effect over and over, but only when we change things at the level of cause are they fundamentally altered. We must change our thinking as well as our behavior in order to change our lives.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A politics of love recognizes that the same spiritual, emotional, and psychological principles that prevail in an individual\u2019s life also prevail in a nation\u2019s. <\/span>(pp. 155-156)<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: 400; color: #008080;\">&#8212;<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span>While most people realize the evils of slavery, many may not realize the extent to which social, economic, and political barriers prevented the integration into free society of the formerly enslaved population after the Civil War.<\/span><\/p><p>If you\u2019ve kicked someone to the ground, you need to do more than just stop kicking; you have a moral responsibility to help them get back up. You can\u2019t just say to four million people who have had no experience other than that of forced labor, \u201cGlad you\u2019re free! Now good luck to ya! Hope you find a good job!\u201d What they were freed to was a violent prejudice, white supremacy, and segregation that would go unchallenged in any fundamental way for another hundred years. Thousands of black Americans fled to Northern cities in search of jobs and freedom denied them\u00a0where they came from, yet racial prejudice routinely met them even there.<\/p><p>It was not until the mid-1950s and the 1960s that the horrors of segregation were met, challenged, and resisted by the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement. The struggle of the civil rights movement was a heroic repudiation of racist oppression, and Dr. King became the target, both professionally and personally, of the full force of supremacist rage. From the lynching of integration rights workers to police brutality to church bombings and ultimately the murder of Dr. King, the white supremacist movement did not go down quietly.<\/p><p>Yet the movement prevailed. Dr. King was a Baptist preacher whose moral authority matched his towering intellect and political acumen. He realized that the movement\u2019s political strategy had to be matched by its spiritual authority in order to awaken the conscience of a nation. Having gone to India and studied the nonviolent philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi, King applied the principles of nonviolence to the struggle for civil rights back in the United States. As a minister and then as a movement leader, King had the Gandhian \u201csoul force\u201d necessary to lead his people to the promised land of racial justice. It was not only the things he said but the things he did that parted the waters of racial hatred. Not only did he believe that love is the only force powerful enough to overcome hate; Dr. King displayed that love with the full force of his being. His combination of nonviolence and political courage stirred a nation that had long acquiesced to the ugliness of white supremacy, and under his leadership the civil rights movement created the political will to pass federal civil rights legislation.<\/p><p>After so much horror and bloodshed, Dr. King and others who struggled so valiantly beside him achieved\u00a0a historic political victory. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin; the Voting Rights Act of 1965 prohibited racial discrimination in voting. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(pp. 160-162)<\/span><\/p><div><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div><div><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A politics of love is one in which we address the psychological and emotional wounds underlying our political realities and seek to heal them in meaningful ways. . . Until we fully appreciate the extent of a wrong done in the past, we cannot fully appreciate the ways in which we continue to repeat it.<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;\">~Williamson, Marianne. A Politics of Love\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(pp. 167-168)<\/span><\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><p>Just as an individual needs to identify and admit his or her character defects, so America has to identify our character defects as a nation. There is a strain of racist thought and feeling that has been with us from the beginning and is with us still. It is time for us to face it, atone for it, make amends for it, and end it. People can transform, and so can countries. (p. 168)<\/p><p>It was the task of a previous generation to abolish slavery, and it is the task of our generation to abolish racism. As a whole-person response to the problems of our time, a politics of love recognizes that both internal and external healing is necessary if we\u2019re to transform our country. Our sense of citizenship must include the purification of our hearts if we are to solve the problems of the world. In the words of Martin Luther King Jr., \u201cThe desegregation of the American South is the externalization of the goal of the civil rights movement, but its ultimate goal is the establishment of the beloved community.\u201d (pp. 169-170)<\/p><p>A politics of love stands for more than incremental changes. It is a fundamental disruption, a revolutionary stance, and a proactive movement in the direction of a greater good. Whites can listen more to black Americans, and we should. Whites can do more to recognize the depths of white privilege, and we should. We can oppose voter suppression and disparities in our criminal justice system, and we should. We must do all those things. But we should also pay up. (p. 170)<\/p><p>Germany has paid $89 billion in war reparations to Jewish organizations since World War II, and the United States should pay reparations for slavery.<\/p><p>~Williamson, Marianne. A Politics of Love\u00a0 (p. 172).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/princeshakur.medium.com\/why-palestinian-and-black-liberation-is-connected-7a66634b8760\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-27665\" src=\"https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/malcolm-x-careful-461x1024.jpg\" alt=\"malcolm-x-careful\" width=\"370\" height=\"822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/malcolm-x-careful-461x1024.jpg 461w, https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/malcolm-x-careful-135x300.jpg 135w, https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/malcolm-x-careful.jpg 526w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/><\/a><\/p><p><!-- iframe style=\"width: 990px; height: 920px;\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1OmGTsqspqs5D7cG3MIcmNazWzXz8nka9goG7pagJaxE\/edit\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\"&gt; &lt;\/iframe --><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-16 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5a360e3\" data-id=\"5a360e3\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2917192 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2917192\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-16 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-fc43775\" data-id=\"fc43775\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-806080a\" data-id=\"806080a\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-63a14a3 bdt-motion-effect-yes elementor-widget elementor-widget-toggle\" data-id=\"63a14a3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"toggle.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-1041\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1041\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon elementor-toggle-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened\"><i class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened fas fa-caret-up\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-toggle-title\" tabindex=\"0\">Week Seven: February 18 - Chapter 7: The Sojourner Among Us<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-1041\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-1041\"><p><strong>The Sojourner Among Us: The Hope of Immigrants<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: 400;\">Pages 175-190 (16 pages)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 17px;\">Suggested topic: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">If you had someone else&#8217;s history, would you also have their point of view?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal;\">&nbsp;<span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;\">\u2026 or\u2026&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 600; font-size: 17px;\">w<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">hatever is alive in you\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: bold;\"><i>A Politics of Love<\/i> Quotes:&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In, 2017 traveling with friends to the Za\u2019tari camp, a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan, I met three adorable little sisters, so precious that I cried at having to leave them . . . Leaving the camp, I was silent in the car on the way back to our hotel. I wished everyone I knew in America could have spent the day as I had. (pp. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">175-176)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: 400;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dehumanizing others has always been the required first step in the commitment of history\u2019s collective atrocities. <\/span><b>Demonizing others brings out the demons in those who demonize. <\/b>(p. 178)<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The immigrant story of today contains no less richness, variety, contribution, creativity, and life pulsing at its most ordinary and beautiful than it did a hundred years ago. The immigrant is not our enemy. It is so important to remember this today, as immigrants are often viciously scapegoated. This is not the first time this has happened in America, and we must stand up against it now as other generations stood up against it in their time. The story of immigration in the United States has been ugly before. But we got through those earlier dark periods of mean-spiritedness in our history, and we will get through this one too. (p. 182)<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: 400;\">&nbsp;<\/span><br><\/p>\n<p><\/p><center><br>Poetry read quickly doesn\u2019t penetrate the soul. <p><\/p>\n<div style=\"height:4px;\"><\/div>\n<p>But poems such as this one, read slowly, savored and embraced, can change your entire view of being an American.<\/p>\n<div style=\"height:34px;\"><\/div>\n<p><i>Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,&nbsp;<\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"height:4px;\"><\/div>\n<p><i>With conquering limbs astride from land to land;&nbsp;<\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"height:4px;\"><\/div>\n<p><i>Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand&nbsp;<\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"height:4px;\"><\/div>\n<p><i>A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame&nbsp;<\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"height:4px;\"><\/div>\n<p><i>Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name&nbsp;<\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"height:4px;\"><\/div>\n<p><i>Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand&nbsp;<\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"height:4px;\"><\/div>\n<p><i>Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command&nbsp;<\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"height:4px;\"><\/div>\n<p><i>The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.&nbsp;<\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"height:4px;\"><\/div>\n<p><i>\u201cKeep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!\u201d cries she&nbsp;<\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"height:4px;\"><\/div>\n<p><i>With silent lips. \u201cGive me your tired, your poor,&nbsp;<\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"height:4px;\"><\/div>\n<p><i>Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,&nbsp;<\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"height:4px;\"><\/div>\n<p><i>The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.&nbsp;<\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"height:4px;\"><\/div>\n<p><i>Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,&nbsp;<\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"height:4px;\"><\/div>\n<p><i>I lift my lamp beside the golden door!\u201d (pp. 183-184).&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/i><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"height:34px;\"><\/div>\n<div>When I was a little girl, my father used to point out to us that the entire concept of national boundaries was created by man, not by God. He would have us look at an atlas, or a globe, in which the boundary lines weren\u2019t present, to see what the world looks like geographically from miles above. God didn\u2019t draw a line between France and Spain, or between the United States and Mexico. The whole idea of national boundaries is a man-made material category. National borders have a place in our material functioning. But they should be used to organize our societies, not to divide our hearts. (p. 185)<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: 400;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The humanity of all people should have everything to do with politics. (p. 186)<br><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: 400;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;\">If our spiritual values matter at all, they must matter everywhere. And that includes in the arena of politics.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">~Williamson, Marianne. A Politics of Love<\/span><span style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">(p. 187)<br><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_27781\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27781\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mexico-faith-united-states-border-migrants-asylum-5ac4b5823ec2455a74d0665a61c9ff8c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/faith-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Violence forced them to flee. Now faith sustains these migrants on their journey to the US\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27781\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Violence forced them to flee. Now faith sustains these migrants on their journey to the US<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NKafLeEnYtM?si=aZt41WQbwEBxVrZQ&amp;start=127\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_27803\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27803\" style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/YusufCatStevens\/status\/1758044154330767606?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-27803 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/children-play.jpeg\" alt=\"children-play\" width=\"680\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/children-play.jpeg 680w, https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/children-play-300x287.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27803\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2018Where Do The Children Play?\u2019 ~Yusuf \/ Cat Stevens <br>Yusuf Islam the Artist also known as Cat Stevens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div style=\"height:34px;\"><\/div>\n<p>(via Janna:&nbsp; &nbsp;In <i>Ethics for the New Millennium<\/i>, the Dalai Lama defines<br>&nbsp;\u2018<b>spiritual<\/b> revolution\u2019 as an <b>ethical<\/b> revolution.)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/center><p><\/p>\n<p><!-- iframe style=\"width: 990px; height: 920px;\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/11aycEWfPRYwzgZ7_xunQZ6Qrdcry1XJyoxFEFTcjLpU\/edit\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\"&gt; &lt;\/iframe --><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-16 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-80860ec\" data-id=\"80860ec\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e8ff24b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"e8ff24b\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-16 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f993205\" data-id=\"f993205\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-95f8c90\" data-id=\"95f8c90\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c310f95 bdt-motion-effect-yes elementor-widget elementor-widget-toggle\" data-id=\"c310f95\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"toggle.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-2041\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2041\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon elementor-toggle-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened\"><i class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened fas fa-caret-up\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-toggle-title\" tabindex=\"0\">Week Eight: February 25 - Chapter 8: War and Peace<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-2041\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-2041\"><p><strong style=\"font-size: 17px;\">War and Peace: Fighting the Profits of War<\/strong><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: 400;\">Pages 191-214 (24 pages)<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: bold;\">Suggested topic:\u00a0<\/span><b>A trigger-happy propensity for conflict can give way to the true love and wisdom of transformation.\u00a0<\/b><\/p><p style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: bold;\">\u2026 or\u2026\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: 600;\">w<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">hatever is alive in you\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/p><div><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div><p style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: bold;\">Quotes:\u00a0<\/span><\/p><div><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: bold;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">191<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><span style=\"color: #008000;\">A politics of love is neither unsophisticated nor naive about the dangers of the world; it acknowledges the need for military preparedness. But in the world as it is today, we need to know as much about how to wage peace as how to wage war.<\/span><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">193-194<\/span><\/p><p><br \/><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Traditional warfare addresses external realities, seeking to suppress or eradicate malignant symptoms. But with society as well as with the body, we ultimately cannot just treat symptoms; we need to treat their cause.<\/span> <br \/><br \/><br \/>We can\u2019t just fight the symptoms of hate; we must cultivate the love in the presence of which hate does not grow. Most of our problems are opportunistic infections, none of which would have gained such power had our societal immune cells been healthier. That is why cultivating justice and brotherhood is more than just a \u201cnice\u201d thing to do; by cutting off its oxygen, the politics of love is the most sophisticated response to evil. This century demands a different mental framework through which to view the entire notion of security. In today\u2019s world, no amount or means of brute force can provide an absolute guarantee of our safety.<\/p><p>Williamson, Marianne. A Politics of Love\u00a0 (pp. 193-194).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">198-199<\/span><\/p><p><br \/>It\u2019s said that war is too important to be left to the generals, but it\u2019s also too important to be left to the politicians.\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0Our political establishment is enamored of the power of brute force, and undervalues the power of soul force. We need to adopt a new political mind-set if we are to deliver to our children and our children\u2019s children any semblance of a peaceful world. Only those who are either ignorant of history or willfully blind to it can deny the role of widespread human despair, economic hardship, and lack of education in fostering eruptions of violence around the world. Only when we consciously and willingly address those issues in a meaningful way will we be paving the way to a sustainable peace on earth. <br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #008000;\">We can\u2019t just go around fighting violence all the time; we must learn how to cultivate peace. At present, the resources we spend on building true foundations of peace\u2014diplomacy, support for democratic institutions, expansion of economic opportunities for women, providing educational opportunities for children, and ameliorating human suffering\u2014are minuscule compared to what we spend on defense.<\/span><\/span><\/p><p>Williamson, Marianne. A Politics of Love\u00a0 \u00a0(pp. 198-199).\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">202<\/span><\/p><p><br \/>We realize that we must cultivate our health if we want to be healthy, not simply fight sickness when it appears. We should apply that same logic to issues of war and peace. We should know better than to think that we can avoid taking responsibility for peace and not expect war. <br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Active peace-building measures reinforce the social health of our planet the way good nutrition and exercise reinforce the physical health of our bodies.<\/span><\/p><p>Williamson, Marianne. A Politics of Love\u00a0 (p. 202).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">203-204<\/span><\/p><p><br \/><span style=\"color: #008000;\">We should establish a US Department of Peace to identify and foster domestic peace-creating projects in the United States; outbreaks of violence here are as horrifying as those anywhere else in the world. We could make peace-creation central to all domestic and international policy, not just in word but in deed. While some say it\u2019s naive to believe that massively realigning resources toward helping people thrive \u2014\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0by leading efforts to eradicate global poverty, support democratic institutions, and expand economic and educational opportunities\u2014is central to creating peace in the twenty-first century, we need to unabashedly insist that it\u2019s naive to assume humanity will even survive the twenty-first century if we do not.<\/span><\/span><\/p><p>Williamson, Marianne. A Politics of Love\u00a0 \u00a0(pp. 203-204).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">205<\/span><\/p><p><br \/><span style=\"color: #008000;\">The best way to create a more peaceful world is to treat people with greater compassion. Our task is to replace a politics of fear with a politics of love. Love is a wiser, more evolved, and more powerful modus operandi than fear, if our goal is to bequeath a habitable world to our children and our children\u2019s children.<\/span><\/p><p>Williamson, Marianne. A Politics of Love\u00a0 (p. 205).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">206-207<\/span><\/p><p><br \/><span style=\"color: #008000;\">The women of America are key to challenging the insanity of America\u2019s war habit. If nothing else, we should be awakened by the fact that more women and children die in wars than do male combatants.\u00a0 We should unabashedly stand up to militarism, viewing this stance as simply one more way of dismantling the patriarchy. Feminine values like nurturing children and caring for the home are not just peripheral issues; they are the keys to peace on earth. If Americans are to adequately deal with terrorism, we need to look deep into our own hearts and minds.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">A trigger-happy propensity for war should give way to a taste for wisdom, maturity, and reflection.\u00a0 The false power of the tough cowboy should dissolve now, giving way to the genuine power of wisdom. We should reach not only for a rich society but for a good society, both in how we behave at home and in how we express ourselves abroad.<\/span><\/p><p>Williamson, Marianne. A Politics of Love\u00a0 (pp. 206-207).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">212-213<\/span><\/p><p><br \/>Our vital national interests lie in protecting the 3.1 million children who die from hunger-related preventable causes each year, the 71 percent of the world\u2019s population who live on less than $10 a day, and the nearly one billion people who live on less than $1.90 a day. It is the humanitarian aid workers, diplomats, and peace-builders who most serve our vital national interests.\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 17px;\"><br \/><br \/>The amelioration of unnecessary human suffering, both here and around the world, should be the bottom line of all US policy. It is not the radicalism of hate that is our biggest danger today; our biggest danger is that we lack the radicalism of love. That is the revolution now to be waged: a change in our thoughts, along with a change in our behavior, along with change in our institutions, along with a change in our votes, that will lead in time to a change in our world. Any conversation less radical than that simply plays into the hands of those who despise us. <br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #008000;\">We have the power to override the heinous efforts of those who terrorize, to overrule them and nullify their malevolence. But it cannot be done with mere military might. What we need now is our spiritual might. The real war is not without, but within: between ego-based fear and spirit-based love. That is the contest that matters the most, and it rages constantly inside our heads. Will we choose brute force or soul force to provide for our security? As long as we the people are not answering that for ourselves, there will always be others seeking to provide the answers for us. Whether we let them do so will determine the fate of our precious world.<\/span><\/span><\/p><p>Williamson, Marianne. A Politics of Love\u00a0 \u00a0(pp. 212-213).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><!-- iframe style=\"width: 990px; height: 920px;\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1FqqZOrcX-EuEeypZzd9iKHKcxvF3mH3yzfj_QpnksV0\/edit\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\"&gt;<br \/>&lt;\/iframe --><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-16 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9077a38\" data-id=\"9077a38\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-dbd4f8b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"dbd4f8b\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-16 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-54e11e0\" data-id=\"54e11e0\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-8daa440\" data-id=\"8daa440\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-521aff1 bdt-motion-effect-yes elementor-widget elementor-widget-toggle\" data-id=\"521aff1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"toggle.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-8601\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-8601\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon elementor-toggle-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened\"><i class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened fas fa-caret-up\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-toggle-title\" tabindex=\"0\">Week Nine: March 3 - Chapter 9: To Begin Again<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-8601\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-8601\"><p><strong>To Begin Again: The Choice Before Us<\/strong><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: 400;\">Pages 215-228 (14 pages)<br \/><\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: bold;\">Suggested topic:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;\">Mahatma Gandhi said that the real leader of the Indian independence movement was \u201cthe small still voice within.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<br \/>Have you ever heard it?<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0\u00a0\u2026 or\u2026\u00a0whatever is alive in you\u2026<\/p><p style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: bold;\">Quotes:\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">216<\/span><\/p><p>Americans are a good and decent people, no different from people anywhere else. Although fear and bigotry have been harnessed for political purposes, we have love and decency we can harness too. But first we must find and harness them within ourselves. We all have to look at ourselves and check our judgments at the door. A nonviolent revolution begins with facing, and surrendering, the violence within ourselves.<\/p><p>Williamson, Marianne. A Politics of Love\u00a0 (p. 216).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">219<\/span><\/p><p>Love is not passive; it is active in the world. And there is much to be done. In the words of Dr. King, \u201cThose who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war. . . . When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.\u201d<\/p><p>Williamson, Marianne. A Politics of Love\u00a0 \u00a0(p. 217).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">220<\/span><\/p><p>We need reverence toward each other, toward the children of the world, and toward the planet itself. We need reconciliation with the God of our understanding, and radical forgiveness toward each other. We need to look at ourselves and ask how we can do better, devote ourselves to our country and to our children\u2019s children, to rise up from the ashes of our self-preoccupation. We need desperately to evolve from \u201cme\u201d to \u201cwe.\u201d Only then will our country rise\u2014when we rise first.<\/p><p>Williamson, Marianne. A Politics of Love\u00a0 \u00a0(p. 217).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">223<\/span><\/p><p>Mahatma Gandhi said that the real leader of the Indian independence movement was \u201cthe small still voice within.\u201d The small still voice within will lead our generation too, for it hasn\u2019t gone away. It is an aspect of human consciousness. It is an eternal internal guidance system. Each of us has a job to do, a unique part to play in the repairing of our world, and we can be internally guided as to what part is ours to play.<\/p><p>Williamson, Marianne. A Politics of Love\u00a0 \u00a0(p. 223).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">224<\/span><\/p><p>Consider spending five minutes every day sitting with your eyes closed, sending love from your heart to everyone in your country, and then extending that love to every sentient being in the world.\u00a0<\/p><p>Williamson, Marianne. A Politics of Love\u00a0 \u00a0(p. 224).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">226<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If we truly want a different world, we must be willing to think in a different way and live in a different way than we do now.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">226-227<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Human beings can descend, but we can rise back up. We can choose wrongly, but we can choose again. Humanity has come to a fork in the road, and each of us is responsible for choosing which way we go now. There is a way marked Love and there is a way marked Fear, each path leading to more of the same. . . . We are not powerless at all. We are simply in the habit of disengaging from the things that matters most. We can change that. <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: 400;\">~<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;\">Williamson, Marianne. A Politics of Love\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<br \/><br \/><\/span><\/p><p><!-- iframe style=\"width: 990px; height: 920px;\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1d5wVnKnhv26cE2XOpPSC4np0RgJbvpAx4azwWRAKHjM\/edit\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" --><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-16 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-fd26504\" data-id=\"fd26504\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-db49b6c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" 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elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ce8d0d1 elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-toggle\" data-id=\"ce8d0d1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"toggle.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-2161\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2161\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon elementor-toggle-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened\"><i class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened fas fa-caret-up\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-toggle-title\" tabindex=\"0\">NOTES: <\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-2161\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-2161\">\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-16 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4a2a156\" data-id=\"4a2a156\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-96a5c32 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"96a5c32\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5959c65\" data-id=\"5959c65\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a59d3c0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"a59d3c0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-057f6cc elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"057f6cc\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-16 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9d56758\" data-id=\"9d56758\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-98d2c1a\" data-id=\"98d2c1a\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b9b1f0e elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b9b1f0e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div style=\"border-radius: 20px; text-align: center; border: thin solid black; padding: 4%; margin: 1px; line-height: 180%; font-weight: 600; background-color: #fff; color: #000; font-size: 100%;\">\ud83c\udf3f \u201cOur deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won\u2019t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It\u2019s not just in some of us; it\u2019s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.\u201d<br \/>~Marianne Williamson \ud83c\udf3f<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-16 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2d20f67\" data-id=\"2d20f67\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-ae56c98 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"ae56c98\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-16 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-8a87ba1\" data-id=\"8a87ba1\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6f5aade\" data-id=\"6f5aade\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-237e029 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"237e029\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/marianne2024.com\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"322\" src=\"https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/no-war-2.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-25444\" alt=\"no-war\" srcset=\"https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/no-war-2.jpeg 680w, https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/no-war-2-300x142.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-16 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6196960\" data-id=\"6196960\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-b03c261 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"b03c261\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0559cd5\" data-id=\"0559cd5\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2d50a61 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2d50a61\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"text-align: center\">\ud83c\udf3f <a href=\"https:\/\/share.marianne2024.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marianne Share-Ables<\/a> \ud83c\udf3f<\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element 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src=\"https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/meeting-2.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-24207\" alt=\"meeting\" srcset=\"https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/meeting-2.jpeg 958w, https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/meeting-2-300x226.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/meeting-2-768x580.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 958px) 100vw, 958px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-16 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-cd4674f\" data-id=\"cd4674f\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-61ddeb0 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"61ddeb0\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f8be4c2\" data-id=\"f8be4c2\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b57200b elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"b57200b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/marianne2024.com\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"129\" src=\"https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Marianne-Williamson-for-President-Banner-300x129.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-24460\" alt=\"Marianne-Williamson\" srcset=\"https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Marianne-Williamson-for-President-Banner-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Marianne-Williamson-for-President-Banner.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-bd58463 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"bd58463\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container 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rel=\"noopener\">Marianne2024.com<\/a><\/h1>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-16 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1ba4404\" data-id=\"1ba4404\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8abd7bc elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"8abd7bc\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4b94bc1\" data-id=\"4b94bc1\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3b0b0df elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3b0b0df\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-16 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b0f7237\" data-id=\"b0f7237\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1a4bfc8\" data-id=\"1a4bfc8\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-17b45e5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"17b45e5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Invite your friends on Facebook:<\/h2><p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1079560699883740\/1079560706550406\/?active_tab=about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1079560699883740\/1079560706550406\/?active_tab=about<\/a><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center\">and<strong> Linked-In<\/strong><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/events\/7144444915807125504\/comments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/events\/7144444915807125504\/comments\/<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-16 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0f666be\" data-id=\"0f666be\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-97505e2 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"97505e2\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-16 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-61bd686\" data-id=\"61bd686\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-687848e\" data-id=\"687848e\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dcaa356 elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"dcaa356\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-16 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5e0a8f7\" data-id=\"5e0a8f7\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e14807c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"e14807c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-16 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c6ab588\" data-id=\"c6ab588\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b3d971a\" data-id=\"b3d971a\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bdbe34d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"bdbe34d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Security Note:<\/b>\u00a0<br \/><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Cornell+University+recommends+only+enabling+file+transfers+during+Zoom+meetings+when+absolutely+necessary.&amp;oq=Cornell+University+recommends+only+enabling+file+transfers+during+Zoom+meetings+when+absolutely+necessary.&amp;gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBBzYwOWowajeoAgCwAgA&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Cornell University<\/u><\/a> recommends<\/b> only enabling file transfers during 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