"Qualities like love and compassion are not just……" — Joanna Macy
"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 by doing spiritual practices. As the Buddha said, Come and see."
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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 Abstract Quotes
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one of 741 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— Honore de Balzac
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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