Joanna Macy Quotes about Heart

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

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

Joanna Macy

Heart, Needs, Action

We are capable of suffering with our world, and that is the true meaning of compassion. It enables us to recognize our profound interconnectedness with all beings. Don't ever apologize for crying for the trees burning in the Amazon or over the waters polluted from mines in the Rockies. Don't apologize for the sorrow, grief, and rage you feel. It is a measure of your humanity and your maturity. It is a measure of your open heart, and as your heart breaks open there will be room for the world to heal. That is what is happening as we see people honestly confronting the sorrows of our time.

Joanna Macy

Grief, Heart, Compassion

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.

Joanna Macy

Dream, Heart, Imagination

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.

Joanna Macy

Grief, Heart, Maturity

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

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

Joanna Macy

Heart, Broken, Walks

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.

Joanna Macy

Heart, Fighting, Community

The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe.

Joanna Macy

Peace, Heart, Grieving

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

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.’

Joanna Macy

Hero, Heart, Adventure

The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe... All is registered in the 'boundless heart' of the bodhisattva. Through our deepest and innermost reponses to our world - to hunger and torture and the threat of annihilation - we touch that boundless heart.

Joanna Macy

Heart, Our World, Soul

Joanna Macy Quotes about Heart

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