Joanna Macy
Born
May 02, 1929
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Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in without Going Crazy
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2012
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World as Lover, World as Self
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1991
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Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects
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1998
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Widening Circles: A Memoir
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2000
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Greening of the Self
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2013
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Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory: The Dharma of Natural Systems
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1991
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Pass it On: Five Stories That Can Change the World
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2010
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A Wild Love for the World: Joanna Macy and the Work of Our Time
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Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear Age
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1983
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In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus
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“If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear.”
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“Of course, even when you see the world as a trap and posit a fundamental separation between liberation of self and transformation of society, you can still feel a compassionate impulse to help its suffering beings. In that case you tend to view the personal and the political in a sequential fashion. "I'll get enlightened first, and then I'll engage in social action." Those who are not engaged in spiritual pursuits put it differently: "I'll get my head straight first, I'll get psychoanalyzed, I'll overcome my inhibitions or neuroses or my hang-ups (whatever description you give to samsara) and then I'll wade into the fray." Presupposing that world and self are essentially separate, they imagine they can heal one before healing the other. This stance conveys the impression that human consciousness inhabits some haven, or locker-room, independent of the collective situation -- and then trots onto the playing field when it is geared up and ready.
It is my experience that the world itself has a role to play in our liberation. Its very pressures, pains, and risks can wake us up -- release us from the bonds of ego and guide us home to our vast, true nature. For some of us, our love of the world is so passionate that we cannot ask it to wait until we are enlightened.”
― World as Lover, World as Self
It is my experience that the world itself has a role to play in our liberation. Its very pressures, pains, and risks can wake us up -- release us from the bonds of ego and guide us home to our vast, true nature. For some of us, our love of the world is so passionate that we cannot ask it to wait until we are enlightened.”
― World as Lover, World as Self
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