"The central purpose of the Work that Reconnects……" — Joanna Macy
"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, self-healing powers of the web of life, so that they may be enlivened and motivated to play their part in creating a sustainable civilization."
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29 Quotes by Joanna Macy
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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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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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It’s walking the razor’s edge of the sacred moment where you don’t know, you can’t count on, and comfort yourself…
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Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and…
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Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to…
— Mary Kay Ash
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A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States,…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important…
— Melissa Bean
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Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Because when you watch U.S. television, all the presenters and reporters, they're all out of central casting.
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Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve's other mandate…
— Ben Bernanke
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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round…
— Wendell Berry
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Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide…
— David Boies
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The central problem of novel-writing is causality.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At…
— Geraldine Brooks
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It is time to end the western policy of malign neglect. It is in the interest of the whole world…
— James Buchan
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