Joanna Macy Quotes

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• Gratitude for the gift of life is the primary wellspring of all religions, the hallmark of the mystic, the source of all true art....It is…
• Gratitude is liberating. It is subversive. It helps us to realize that we are sufficient, and that realization frees us.
• The central purpose of the Work that Reconnects is to help people uncover and experience their innate connections with each other and with the systemic,…
• If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life…
• It is good to realize that falling apart is not such a bad thing. Indeed, it is as essential to evolutionary and psychological transformation as…
• The future is not out there in front of us, but inside us.
• Confirming an intuitive sense I've always felt for the interconnectedness of all things, this doctrine has provided me ways to understand the intricate web of…
• In the early Buddhist view, then, a persons identity resides not in an enduring self but in his actions (karma)- that is in the choices…
• We are making choices that will affect whether beings thousands of generations from now will be able to be born sound of mind and body.
• To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe -- to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it,…
• The biggest gift you can give is to be absolutely present, and when you're worrying about whether you're hopeful or hopeless or pessimistic or optimistic,…
• Yes, it looks bleak. But you are still alive now. You are alive with all the others, in this present moment. And because the truth…
• 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. All…
• 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 do…
• The most radical thing any of us can do at this time is to be fully present to what is happening in the world.
• It is my experience that the world itself has a role to play in our liberation. Its very pressures, pains, and risks can wake us…
• The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe... All is registered in the 'boundless heart' of the bodhisattva. Through our deepest and innermost…
• Qualities like love and compassion are not just abstract virtues that are the property of saints and adepts. Anyone can develop these qualities in themselves…
• Out of this darkness a new world can arise, not to be constructed by our minds so much as to emerge from our dreams. Even…
• The web of life both cradles us and calls us to weave it further.

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