"Yes, it looks bleak. But you are still……" — Joanna Macy
"Yes, it looks bleak. But you are still alive now. You are alive with all the others, in this present moment. And because the truth is speaking in the work, it unlocks the heart. And there’s such a feeling and experience of adventure. It’s like a trumpet call to a great adventure. In all great adventures there comes a time when the little band of heroes feels totally outnumbered and bleak, like Frodo in Lord of the Rings or Pilgrim in Pilgrim’s Progress. You learn to say ‘It looks bleak. Big deal, it looks bleak.’"
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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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The central purpose of the Work that Reconnects is to help people uncover and experience their innate connections with each…
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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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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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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
— Aristophanes
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
— Aristotle
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All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the…
— Neil Armstrong
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I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to…
— David Attenborough
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The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
— Saint Augustine
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason…
— Marcus Aurelius
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
— Ansel Adams
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I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.
— Christian Bale
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To die will be an awfully big adventure.
— James M. Barrie
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Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done…
— Edward Abbey
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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in…
— Mary Ritter Beard
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Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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