Earthling
Tippett:
I’d like to talk about attention, which is another real theme that runs through your work — both the word and the practice. And I know people associate you with that word. But I was interested to read that you began to learn that attention without feeling is only a report; that there is more to attention than for it to matter in the way... See more
I’d like to talk about attention, which is another real theme that runs through your work — both the word and the practice. And I know people associate you with that word. But I was interested to read that you began to learn that attention without feeling is only a report; that there is more to attention than for it to matter in the way... See more
On Being • Mary Oliver — “I got saved by the beauty of the world.” | The On Being Project
"Agency, for me, is the ability to know where one is, to understand one’s own position, to have one’s own capabilities, and to have the ability to affect and change one’s own life, in as broad a range of ways of thinking as possible. It’s something that is under huge pressure for most of us. It’s something that is taken away from us actively in
... See moreThe river, the trees, the soil, other alienated people... the more time you spend with each, the more attention you give to each, and the more you love each, the less alone in all of this you will feel. It is from this place that others can be invited. Hearts may even change.
Love is the Answer to Climate Crisis (Yes, I’m Serious)
There is, however, one climate action that I believe to be truly and universally effective. It is concrete and accessible. Not only can it make a real difference for the more-than-human world, but it can also act as a salve for the painful and paralyzing dissonance of the anguished position many of us have internalized. This action is familiar to... See more
Love is the Answer to Climate Crisis (Yes, I’m Serious)
To face climate change effectively, we need to go beyond technical fixes and engage with the adaptive aspects of the challenge. We need to question our assumptions, values, and behaviors, and explore how they shape our relationship with the planet and each other. We need to learn, experiment, collaborate, and find new forms of consciousness and new
... See moreHouman Harouni, my teacher and colleague, would give at times like this: “to go back and forth between an icy plunge into despair and a rising into the heat of hope—to remain awake to both feelings at the same time.”
Because this moment, to me, asks us to return to the most essential, not necessarily to come up with grand responses. Because if a response is not rooted in something that is real, then it is a response from the same space that caused it. And I really think that this process that is unfolding, that the seasons reflect, that our human heart knows... See more
A Story of Requiem, Invitation, and Celebration – A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
And I always think that a story, if it is worth its salt, must almost always be rooted in something that you can see and you can taste and you can touch and you can hear in the living, breathing Earth with both the outer senses, and if you allow yourself to sink into it, the inner senses.
A Story of Requiem, Invitation, and Celebration – A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
I want to start by sharing a quote from the great, late Barry Lopez. And he wrote, “In this moment, is it still possible to face the gathering darkness and say to the physical Earth, and to all its creatures, including ourselves, fiercely and without embarrassment, I love you, and to embrace fearlessly the burning world?”