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Vows Of Active Hope

Joanna Macy

On the last afternoon of a two-week intensive workshop, Joanna Macy was out walking and met a young monk from the retreat centre hosting the event. "Well," he said, "I expect now on you...

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10K reads, 12 comments

Being Acted Through

Joanna Macy

Here's a discovery we can make along our ecological Pilgrim's Progress: the discovery of what can happen through us. If we are the rocks dancing, then that which evolved us from those rocks ca...

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11K reads, 6 comments

The Three Narratives

Joanna Macy

When we come together for this work, at the outset we discern three stories or versions of reality that are shaping our world so that we can see them more clearly and choose which one we want to get b...

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21K reads, 5 comments

The Shambhala Warrior

Joanna Macy

[A Tibetan Legend] "There comes a time when all life on Earth is in danger. Barbarian powers have arisen. Although they waste their wealth in preparations to annihilate each other, they have much in...

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90K reads, 39 comments