Joanna Macy Quotes

• Ésta es una época oscura, llena de sufrimiento e incertidumbre. Como células vivas en un cuerpo más grande, es natural que sintamos el trauma de nuestro mundo. Así que no tengas miedo de la angustia que sientas, ni de la ira o el miedo, porque estas respuestas surgen de la profundidad de tu cariño y de la verdad de tu interconexión con todos los seres.

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  Nature, Fear, Anger

  Joanna Macy, Norbert Gahbler (2006). “Pass it On: Five Stories That Can Change the World”, p.105, Parallax Press

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• You don't need to do everything. Do what calls your heart; effective action comes from love. It is unstoppable, and it is enough.

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  Heart, Needs, Action

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• Somos capaces de sufrir con nuestro mundo, y ése es el verdadero significado de la compasión. Nos permite reconocer nuestra profunda interconexión con todos los seres. No te disculpes nunca por llorar por los árboles que arden en el Amazonas o por las aguas contaminadas de las minas en las Rocosas. No te disculpes por la pena, el dolor y la rabia que sientes. Es una medida de tu humanidad y tu madurez. Es una medida de tu corazón abierto, y a medida que tu corazón se abra habrá espacio para que el mundo sane. Eso es lo que está ocurriendo cuando vemos a la gente enfrentarse honestamente a las penas de nuestro tiempo.

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  Grief, Heart, Compassion

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• Si el mundo ha de sanar gracias a los esfuerzos humanos, estoy convencido de que será gracias a la gente corriente, gente cuyo amor por esta vida es incluso mayor que su miedo. Personas capaces de abrirse a la red de la vida que nos llamó a la existencia.

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  Love, Web Of Life, People

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• Out of this darkness a new world can arise, not to be constructed by our minds so much as to emerge from our dreams. Even though we cannot see clearly how it's going to turn out, we are still called to let the future into our imagination. We will never be able to build what we have not first cherished in our hearts.

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  Sueño, Corazón, Imaginación

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• The most radical thing any of us can do at this time is to be fully present to what is happening in the world.

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  World, Radical, Can Do

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• El mayor regalo que puedes hacer es estar absolutamente presente, y cuando te preocupas por si estás esperanzado, o desesperanzado, o pesimista, u optimista, ¿a quién le importa? Lo principal es que estés presente, que estés aquí y que encuentres cada vez más capacidad para amar a este mundo, porque no se curará sin eso. Eso es lo que va a desencadenar nuestra inteligencia y nuestro ingenio y nuestra solidaridad para la curación de nuestro mundo.

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  Healing, Optimistic, Our World

  "Joanna Macy: A Wild Love for the World". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. August 11, 2016.

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• The future is not out there in front of us, but inside us.

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  Future, Fronts

  Joanna Macy (1983). “Despair and personal power in the nuclear age”, New Society Pub

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• To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe -- to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs that draw nourishment from it -- is a wonder beyond words.

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  Beautiful, Self, Alive

  Joanna Macy, Molly Young Brown (2014). “Coming Back to Life: The Guide to the Work that Reconnects”, p.91, New Society Publishers

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• The sorrow, grief, and rage you feel is a measure of your humanity and your evolutionary maturity. As your heart breaks open there will be room for the world to heal.

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  Grief, Heart, Maturity

  Joanna Macy (2013). “Greening of the Self”, p.7, Parallax Press

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• Because the relationship between self and world is reciprocal, it is not a matter of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the Earth, the Earth heals us. No need to wait. As we care enough to take risks, we loosen the grip of ego and begin to come home to our true nature.

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  Peace, Home, Self

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• La red de la vida nos acuna y nos llama a seguir tejiéndola.

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  Web Of Life, Cradle

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• Walk boldly through your life with an open, broken heart.

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  Heart, Broken, Walks

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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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  Gratitude, Realization, Helping

  Joanna Macy (2007). “World as Lover, World as Self: A Guide to Living Fully in Turbulent times”, p.72, Parallax Press

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• Action isn't a burden to be hoisted up and lugged around on our shoulders. It is something we are. The work we have to do can be seen as a kind of coming alive. More than some moral imperative, it's an awakening to our true nature, a releasing of our gifts.

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  Awakening, Alive, Action

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• It is good to realize that falling apart is not such a bad thing. Indeed, it is as essential to evolutionary and psychological transformation as the cracking of outgrown shells.

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  Fall, Emotional, Shells

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• When you look at what is happening to our world-and it is hard to look at what's happening to our water, our air, our trees, our fellow species-it becomes clear that unless you have some roots in a spiritual practice that holds life sacred and encourages joyful communion with all your fellow beings, facing the enormous challenges ahead becomes nearly impossible.

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  Spiritual, Practice, Roots

  Joanna Macy (2013). “Greening of the Self”, p.5, Parallax Press

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• Grace happens when we act with others on behalf of our world.

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  Our World, Grace, Behalf

  Joanna Macy (2007). “World as Lover, World as Self: A Guide to Living Fully in Turbulent times”, p.106, Parallax Press

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• The wave of the future is on the local level. Don't waste your heart and mind trying to pull down what is already destroying itself. But come into where you're almost below the radar and reorganize life. We want communities where we live and work and fight for the future.

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  Heart, Fighting, Community

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• The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe.

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  Peace, Heart, Grieving

  Joanna Macy (1983). “Despair and personal power in the nuclear age”, New Society Pub

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• There's a song that wants to sing itself through us. We just got to be available. Maybe the song that is to be sung through us is the most beautiful requiem for an irreplaceable planet or maybe it's a song of joyous rebirth as we create a new culture that doesn't destroy its world. But in any case, there's absolutely no excuse for our making our passionate love for our world dependent on what we think of its degree of health, whether we think it's going to go on forever. Those are just thoughts anyway. But this moment you're alive, so you can just dial up the magic of that at any time.

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  Beautiful, Song, Thinking

  "A Wild Love for the World". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. September 16, 2010.

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• The refusal to feel takes a heavy toll. Not only is there an impoverishment of our emotional and sensory life, flowers are dimmer and less fragrant, our loves less ecstaticâ but this psychic numbing also impedes our capacity to process and respond to information. The energy expended in pushing down despair is diverted from more creative uses, depleting the resilience and imagination needed for fresh visions and strategies.

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  Flower, Emotional, Psychics

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• Ninguna bala mágica, ni siquiera Internet, puede salvarnos de la explosión demográfica, la deforestación, la alteración del clima, el envenenamiento por contaminación y la extinción al por mayor de especies vegetales y animales. Vamos a tener que querer cosas diferentes, buscar placeres diferentes, perseguir objetivos diferentes de los que nos han estado impulsando a nosotros y a nuestra economía global.

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  Animal, Goal, Magic

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• Es caminar por el filo de la navaja del momento sagrado en el que no sabes, no puedes contar ni consolarte con ninguna esperanza segura. Todo lo que puedes saber es tu lealtad a la vida y tu intención de servirla en este momento que se nos da. En ese sentido, esta incertidumbre radical libera tu creatividad y tu coraje.

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  Creativity, Comfort, Razors

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• 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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  Beautiful, Peace, Home

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