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Joanna Macy has 29 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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Gratitude is liberating. It is subversive. It helps us to realize that we are sufficient, and that realization frees us.
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The central purpose of the Work that Reconnects is to help people uncover and experience their innate connections with each other and…
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If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love…
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It is good to realize that falling apart is not such a bad thing. Indeed, it is as essential to evolutionary and…
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The future is not out there in front of us, but inside us.
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Confirming an intuitive sense I've always felt for the interconnectedness of all things, this doctrine has provided me ways to understand the…
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In the early Buddhist view, then, a persons identity resides not in an enduring self but in his actions (karma)- that is…
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We are making choices that will affect whether beings thousands of generations from now will be able to be born sound of…
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To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe -- to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs…
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The biggest gift you can give is to be absolutely present, and when you're worrying about whether you're hopeful or hopeless or…
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Yes, it looks bleak. But you are still alive now. You are alive with all the others, in this present moment. And…
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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds…
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In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born;…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The important distinction so well understood in America between a constitution established by the people, and unalterable by the government; and a…
— James Madison
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Human beings are 'emotional amoral egoists,' driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated,…
— Nayef Al-Rodhan
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The possibilities and probabilities are all we have to work with in medicine, though. What we are drawn to in this imperfect…
— Atul Gawande
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In the early Buddhist view, then, a persons identity resides not in an enduring self but in his actions (karma)- that is…
— Joanna Macy
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In one day I had altered my life; my life, therefore, was alterable. This simple axiom did not call out for exegesis;…
— Carol Shields
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People do sometimes change, of course. Habits, allegiances, dreams are all alterable, but only under extraordinary pressure - like great love, fear,…
— Josephine Humphreys
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The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts,…
— John Marshall
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