"Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer……" — Joanna Macy
"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 other beings."
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29 Quotes by Joanna Macy
Joanna Macy has 29 quotes on this site.
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Gratitude for the gift of life is the primary wellspring of all religions, the hallmark of the mystic, the source…
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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…
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If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people…
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It is good to realize that falling apart is not such a bad thing. Indeed, it is as essential to…
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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…
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In the early Buddhist view, then, a persons identity resides not in an enduring self but in his actions (karma)-…
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We are making choices that will affect whether beings thousands of generations from now will be able to be born…
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To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe -- to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive…
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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…
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Yes, it looks bleak. But you are still alive now. You are alive with all the others, in this present…
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More Avoid Quotes
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
— Aristotle
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
— Margaret Atwood
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Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid…
— Margaret Atwood
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I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid…
— Paul Auster
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Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.
— Richard Bach
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I'd love to remain a secret and still work, but I also want people to see the movies I'm in…
— Christian Bale
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Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
— Joey Adams
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My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what…
— Martha Beck
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The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it…
— Conrad Black
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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
— William Blake
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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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