{"id":929,"date":"2007-02-16T13:47:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T13:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/chatteringmind\/2007\/02\/where-alice-lives.html"},"modified":"2007-02-16T13:47:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T13:47:00","slug":"where-alice-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/chatteringmind\/2007\/02\/where-alice-lives.html","title":{"rendered":"Where Alice Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/imgs\/lede\/070215_lede_walker.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand;width: 173px\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/imgs\/lede\/070215_lede_walker.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Beliefnet just posted <a href=\"http:\/\/valeriereiss.com\/\" target=\"_new\">Valerie Reiss&#8217;s <\/a> excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/story\/212\/story_21214_1.html\" target=\"_new\">interview with writer and free spirit<\/a> Alice Walker.<\/p>\n<p>Walker says: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We have a splendid opportunity, for the first time ever on earth, to truly get to the root of things and to transform human society. It\u2019s entirely possible, and it\u2019s really up to us. And since I believe that, I don\u2019t worry about it because I know that we will either do it or we won\u2019t. If we do it, &#8220;Hallelujah.&#8221; The world will just be so wonderful and joyful. If we don\u2019t, we will lose such a beautiful gift. <\/p>\n<p>And I will have to say that while I was here, I did my very best and loved it as much as it loved me\u2014the cosmos, the earth. I personally feel like I\u2019ll be fairly content. You can only do what you can do. It\u2019s just a fact that worrying is unhelpful, whereas trying to bring peace to your own spirit is work you can do, and it\u2019s work that will actually bring many benefits to everybody that you ever encounter and to the whole world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beliefnet just posted Valerie Reiss&#8217;s excellent interview with writer and free spirit Alice Walker. 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