The One You Feed | Personal Growth, Emotional Resilience & Purpose Joanna Macy on Work That Reconnects
Joanna Macy is an environmental activist, author, a scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology. She has written and co-authored many books, including translating much of Rilke’s work
Eric and Joanna discuss her translations of Rilke along with her important “Work That Reconnects”.
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Joanna Macy and I Discuss her Work That Reconnects and…
- Her book translation, Letters to a Young Poet by Rilke
- The joy she experienced translating the work of Rilke with her coauthor Anita Barrows
- Having patience, curiosity and learning "to live the questions now"
- Asking ourselves how can we trust and be trusted
- Her important work called "The Work That Reconnects"
- Her three visions of living
- "Business as Usual" refers to the growth economy and capitalism
- "The Great Unraveling" refers to the world losing its coherence
- "The Great Turning" is the slowing down the destruction of the world and building new ways of doing things
- Her important activist work
- Knowing what we can control, but still caring about what we can't control
- How this work is a "celebration of the awareness of the great reciprocity at the heart of the universe"
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