The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe... All is registered in the 'boundless heart' of the bodhisattva. Through our… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
It is my experience that the world itself has a role to play in our liberation. Its very pressures, pains, and risks… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with. Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
Gratitude for the gift of life is the primary wellspring of all religions, the hallmark of the mystic, the source of all… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
Out of this darkness a new world can arise, not to be constructed by our minds so much as to emerge from… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
We are our world knowing itself. We can relinquish our separateness. We can come home again - and participate in our world… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
The sorrow, grief, and rage you feel is a measure of your humanity and your evolutionary maturity. As your heart breaks open… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
The biggest gift you can give is to be absolutely present, and when you're worrying about whether you're hopeful or hopeless or… — 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
