There's a song that wants to sing itself through us. We just got to be available. Maybe the song that is to be sung through us is the most beautiful requiem for an irreplaceable planet or maybe it's a song… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe... All is registered in the 'boundless heart' of the bodhisattva. Through our deepest and… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
When you look at what is happening to our world-and it is hard to look at what's happening to our water, our air, our… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
“In the first movement, our infancy as a species, we felt no separation from the natural world around us. Trees, rocks, and plants surrounded… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
“Yet, even focusing on this present life, disciples often queried the Buddha as to who is responsible for the habits, sufferings, and pleasures we… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
There's a song that wants to sing itself through us. We just got to be available. Maybe the song that is to be sung… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
Clothe yourself in your authority. You speak not only as yourself or for yourself. You will speak and act with the courage and endurance… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
There are the holding actions, the changing actions, and the vision of the future - what we want to see happen for the Earth.… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
We are capable of suffering with our world, and that is the true meaning of compassion. It enables us to recognize our profound interconnectedness… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
Action isn't a burden to be hoisted up and lugged around on our shoulders. It is something we are. The work we have to… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
Qualities like love and compassion are not just abstract virtues that are the property of saints and adepts. Anyone can develop these qualities in… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
The most radical thing any of us can do at this time is to be fully present to what is happening in the world. — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
This is a dark time, filled with suffering and uncertainty. Like living cells in a larger body, it is natural that we feel the… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
