Joanna Macy

Anita Barrows

One of the most beloved poets of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke is widely celebrated for his depth of insight and timeless relevance. He has influenced generations of writers with his classic Letters to a Young Poet, and his reflections on the divine and our place in the world are disarmingly profound. A Year with Rilke provides the first ever reading from Rilke for every day of the year, including selections from his luminous poetry, his piercing prose, and his intimate letters and journals. Rilke is a trusted guide amid the bustle of our daily experience, reflecting on such themes as impermanence, the beauty of creation, the voice of God, and the importance of solitude. With new translations from the editors, whose acclaimed translation of Rilke's The Book of Hours won an ardent readership, this collection reveals the depth and breadth of Rilke's acclaimed work.

Daily Readings from the Best of Rainer Maria Rilke

A Year with Rilke

Chris Johnstone

In a time of economical and environmental crisis, the authors reveal how, through active hope and a transformational mindset, people can face global crises without despair and play a personal role in the collective “Great Turning” toward a life-sustaining society. (This book was previously listed in Forecast.) Original.

How to Face the Mess We're in Without Going Crazy

Active Hope

A blueprint for social change showing how we can reverse the destructive attitudes that threaten our world.

World as Lover, World as Self

Bill Plotkin

Vandana Shiva

Richard Rohr

Wendell Berry

David Loy

Thích Nhất Hạnh

John Stanley

Mary Evelyn Tucker

John Grim

Thomas Berry

Sandra Ingerman

Winona LaDuke

Satish Kumar

Geneen Marie Haugen

Jules Cashford

Susan Murphy

Pir Zia Inayat-Khan

The Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh was asked what we need to do to save our world. "What we most need to do," he replied, "is to hear within us the sound of the earth crying.” Our present ecological crisis is the greatest man-made disaster this planet has ever faced—its accelerating climate change, species depletion, pollution and acidification of the oceans. A central but rarely addressed aspect of this crisis is our forgetfulness of the sacred nature of creation, and how this affects our relationship to the environment. There is a pressing need to articulate a spiritual response to this ecological crisis. This is vital and necessary if we are to help bring the world as a living whole back into balance.

The Cry of the Earth

Spiritual Ecology

This book brings important new dimensions to the interface between contemporary Western science and ancient Eastern wisdom. Here for the first time the concepts and insights of general systems theory are presented in tandem with those of the Buddha. Remarkable convergences appear between core Buddhist teachings and the systems view of reality, arising in our century from biology and extending into the social and cognitive sciences. Giving a cogent introduction to both bodies of thought, and a fresh interpretation of the Buddhas core teaching of dependent co-arising, this book shows how their common perspective on causality can inform our lives. The interdependence of all beings provides the context for clarifying both the role of meditative practice and guidelines for effective action on behalf of the common good.

The Dharma of Natural Systems

Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory

Molly Young Brown

Personal empowerment in the face of planetary despair

The Guide to the Work that Reconnects

Coming Back to Life

Joanna Macy is a scholar of Buddhism, systems thinking, and deep ecology whose decades of writing, teaching, and activism have inspired people around the world. In this collection of writings, leading spiritual teachers, deep ecologists, and diverse writers and activists explore the major facets of Macy’s lifework. Combined with eleven pieces from Macy herself, the result is a rich chorus of wisdom and compassion to support the work of our time. “Being fully present to fear, to gratitude, to all that is—this is the practice of mutual belonging. As living members of the living body of Earth, we are grounded in that kind of belonging. Even when faced with cataclysmic changes, nothing can ever separate us from Earth. We are already home.”— Joanna Macy To learn more, visit www.joannamacy.net.

Joanna Macy and the Work of Our Time

A Wild Love for the World

An autobiography by the influential ecologist and philosopher covering her life from her childhood in a rural area of western New York State to her marriage, travels, involvement in environmental activism, and spiritual journey through Buddhist faith and practices.

A Memoir

Widening Circles

NOT A BOOK

The premise of Greening of the Self is that we are not individuals separate from the world. Instead we are always "co-arising" or co-creating the world, and we cannot escape the consequence of what we do to the environment. Joanna Macy's innovative writing beautifully demonstres that by broadening our view of what constitutes "self" we can cut through our dualistic views and bring about the emergence of the "ecological self." Part of the Parallax Press Moments series.

Greening of the Self

Radhule Weininger

H. H. the H.H. the Dalai Lama

How to Stop Painful Patterns and Find Peace and Freedom--At Last

Heart Medicine

Peter Reason

Melanie Newman

Stories of the Great Turning

Aktivt hopp

The challenges we face can be difficult even to think about. Climate change, war, political polarization, economic upheaval, and the dying back of nature together create a planetary emergency of overwhelming proportions. This revised, tenth anniversary edition of Active Hope shows us how to strengthen our capacity to face these crises so that we can respond with unexpected resilience and creative power. Drawing on decades of teaching an empowerment approach known as the Work That Reconnects, the authors guide us through a transformational process informed by mythic journeys, modern psychology, spirituality, and holistic science. This process equips us with tools to face the mess we’re in and play our role in the collective transition, or Great Turning, to a life-sustaining society.

How to Face the Mess We’re in with Unexpected Resilience and Creative Power

Active Hope (revised)

This overview of Joanna Macy's innovative work combines deep ecology, general systems theory, and the Buddha's teachings on interdependent co-arising. A blueprint for social change, World as Lover, World as Self shows how we can reverse the destructive attitudes that threaten our world, with concrete suggestions on how to address "An Inconvenient Truth". The essays are based on the Buddha's teachings of "Paticca samuppada" (interdependent co-arising). Reduced to deceptively simple terms this says that everything in the world- every object, feeling, emotion, and action is influenced by a huge, all-inclusive web of factors. Any change in the condition of any one thing in this web affects everything else by virtue of interconnectedness. It makes World as Lover World as Self a quintessential guide for those readers who want to integrate their Buddhist practice with concerns for social issues like global warming. It also breaches the dualities that have haunted much of both Eastern and Western thought, namely the dichotomies between mind/body, humanity/nature, reason/emotion, self/world, science/spirituality. The premise is that self-centeredness, and modern individualisms are ultimately destructive for the environment. We are not individuals separate from the world. Instead we are always "co-arising" or co-creating the world, and we cannot escape the consequence of what we do to the environment. Joanna Macy presents a re-focusing on the beauty of the natural world as personally nourishing and replenishment as one way to move away from our self-centeredness. For this revised edition the author will be adding some chapters as well as removing others. The new ones will deal largely with her new work around the "Great Turning" that will add a somewhat more visionary, future-oriented, and strategic dimension to the book. World as Lover, World as Self shows us how to realize that the earth is an extension of ourselves and how to discover the knowledge, authority and courage to respond creatively to the crises of our time. Foreword Thich Nhat Hanh

A Guide to Living Fully in Turbulent times

In this book the authors offer eloquent and compelling insight into the roots of our angst, then point the way forward out of apathy to 'the work that reconnects'. An aspiring and practical guide, this much sought-after update and expansion of Joanna Macy's earlier 'Repair and Personal Empowerment in the Nuclear Age' will be welcomed throughout the world by all those concerned with peace, spirit, eco-activism and education.

Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World

Awakening to the Peril and Promise of Our Time

Despairwork

Molly Brown

Wir können immer das Leben wählen Klimawandel, radioaktive Verseuchung, Fracking, Genmanipulation. Diese entmutigende Liste zum Zustand unsere Welt ließe sich fortsetzen – und dennoch: Wir haben noch immer die Möglichkeit, zum Wohle einer lebenswerten Welt zu handeln. Denn: Wir können unsere Bedürfnisse erfüllen, ohne unser lebenserhaltendes System zu zerstören. Dafür haben wir das notwendige Wissen und die technischen Möglichkeiten. Alles was wir noch brauchen ist der kollektive Wille, beides in diesem Sinne einzusetzen. Dieses Buch ist ein Leitfaden. Es hilft uns, unsere natürliche Vitalität und Entschlossenheit zu entdecken und so die Selbstheilungskräfte unserer Welt zu unterstützen. Im Zentrum steht eine besondere Form der Gruppenarbeit, die Joanna Macy in den 1970er-Jahren begonnen und die sich seither stetig weiter entwickelt hat. Ungeachtet der sich rapide verschlechternden sozialen und ökologischen Rahmenbedingungen hat sie Hunderttausenden Frauen und Männern rund um den Erdball geholfen, solidarisch und mutig zu handeln. Das Buch erschien 2003 erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung, unter dem Titel „Die Reise ins lebendige Leben“. Es wurde gründlich überarbeitet und die aktuellen Entwicklungen wurden einbezogen.

Ermutigung zu einer spirituell-ökologischen Revolution

Für das Leben! Ohne Warum

In Praise of Mortality

The predecessor to Buddhism at Work, this book concretely describes how a village movement in Sri Lanka draws on indigenous cultural and religious values to redefine the nature and purpose of development. It mobilizes and encourages popular participation, and mounts distinctive organizing strategies. It illustrates the relevance of religious traditions for any alternative development efforts in the developing and industrialized worlds.

Religion as Resource in the Sarvodaya Self-help Movement

Dharma and Development

Joanna Macy

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