“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.” ThinkingWorldWantMomentsBeautifulSongCultureCasesForeverAliveMagicPlanetsGoes OnDegreesPassionateExcuseAvailableDependentOur WorldRebirthJoyousNo ExcusesPassionate LoveIrreplaceableRequiemNew CulturesJust A Thought Author: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.” WorldWayHomeBeautifulPeaceKnowingResponsibleComing HomeOur WorldInfancySeparateness Author:Joanna Macy
“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.” SelfBeautifulUniverseWonderAliveDrawsBreatheSensesPerceiveOrgansLungsNourishment Book:Coming Back to Life: The Guide to the Work that Reconnects Source: Coming Back to Life: The Guide to the Work that Reconnects
“Clothe yourself in your authority. You speak not only as yourself or for yourself. You will speak and act with the courage and endurance that has been yours through the long, beautiful aeons of your life story.” LongHas BeensStoriesBeautifulSpeakAuthorityEnduranceLife Story Author:Joanna Macy
