Marianne Williamson – Finding Recompense in Remarkable Ways

Lisa Garr’s interview on GaiamTV with spiritual activist, teacher, and author Marianne Williamson comes at a time of year when reflection and soul searching arise naturally in the long, dark nights of winter. Garr’s lively questions on Williamson’s latest book The Law of Divine Compensation, coupled with Williamson’s unvarnished responses, provides plenty of illumination. This edition of Gaiam Inspirations deftly shows how the practical—work and money—is determined by mystical, universal laws that can be applied to all realms of experience.

In the show, Williamson focuses on what defines meaningful work and how our jobs can be an extension of spirit. When we choose to connect to love rather than fear, Williamson says, we walk “a path to material abundance through immaterial means.” Again and again, she speaks about the universe as self-correcting and self-organizing, designed to remove lack as soon as it arises. As she teaches what she needs to learn in that book, and ruefully admits some of her own money missteps, the sense of endless possibility to reshape our lives unfolds. I love her imagery as a universe acting as our personal GPS, constantly recalibrating as it shows us the way “home.”