Deep Ecology | The Nature of Interbeing 🌀
Tall as a Tree
This blocked communication generates a peril even more deadly, for the greatest danger of our times is the deadening of our response.
Joanna Macy • Active Hope
... See moreIn a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be.
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Beautiful action flows like water,
Not from duty's heavy stone,
But from the heart's natural inclination,
As a seed grows toward the sun.
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When we act from within,
Not because we should, but because we are,
The distinction between self and world dissolves
Like morning mist in gentle dawn.
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Beautiful action requires no thought,
No weighing of moral... See more
Not from duty's heavy stone,
But from the heart's natural inclination,
As a seed grows toward the sun.
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When we act from within,
Not because we should, but because we are,
The distinction between self and world dissolves
Like morning mist in gentle dawn.
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Beautiful action requires no thought,
No weighing of moral... See more
Tijn Tjoelker on Substack
Attentiveness entails the difficult task of waiting, not for the world to take note of us, but for us to take note of the world.
Robert Zaretsky • The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas
“If you do not rest upon the good foundations of nature, you will labour with little honour and less profit. Those who take for their standard any one but nature — the mistress of all masters — weary themselves in vain.”
—Leonardo da Vinci