"We are our world knowing itself. We can……" — Joanna Macy
"We are our world knowing itself. We can relinquish our separateness. We can come home again - and participate in our world in a richer, more responsible and poignantly beautiful way than before, in our infancy."
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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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Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about…
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