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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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The war made me poignantly aware of the beauty of the world.
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Ambitious, absorbing, and poignantly moving.
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The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from…
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Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends.
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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
— Erich Fromm
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There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.
— Samuel Richardson
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I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.
— Nick Cave
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We are our world knowing itself. We can relinquish our separateness. We can come home again - and participate in our world…
— Joanna Macy
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