Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with. Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because it's uncomfortable. And the avoidance produces psychic numbing - resistance to experiencing our pain for the world and… — 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
Future generations, if there is a livable world for them, will look back at the epochal transition we are making to a life-sustaining society.… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
Because the relationship between self and world is reciprocal, it is not a matter of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
It’s walking the razor’s edge of the sacred moment where you don’t know, you can’t count on, and comfort yourself with any sure hope.… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
