#joanna macy

Widening circles

Gepubliceerdop feb 28, 2017

Widening circles is het inspirerende verhaal van de 87-jarige Amerikaanse milieuactiviste Joanna Macy, die laat zien hoe je het slechte nieuws onder ogen kunt zien en dan verder kunt gaan. – een film van Pat van Boeckel.


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Ich lebe mein Leben in wachsenden Ringen,
die sich über die Dinge ziehn.
Ich werde den letzten vielleicht nicht vollbringen,
aber versuchen will ich ihn.

Ich kreise um Gott, um den uralten Turm,
und ich kreise jahrtausendelang;
und ich weiß noch nicht: bin ich ein Falke, ein Sturm
oder ein großer Gesang.

Rainer Maria Rilke, Das Stundenbuch

I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world.
I may not complete this last one
but I give myself to it.

I circle around God, around the primordial tower.
I’ve been circling for thousands of years
and I still don’t know: am I a falcon,
a storm, or a great song?

Vertaling door Joanna Macy

joanna macy

Gepubliceerdop jan 1, 2017

Eco-philosopher Joanna Macy PhD, is a scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology. A respected voice in the movements for peace, justice, and ecology, she interweaves her scholarship with five decades of activism. As the root teacher of the Work That Reconnects, she has created a ground-breaking theoretical framework for personal and social change, as well as a powerful workshop methodology for its application.

Her wide-ranging work addresses psychological and spiritual issues of the nuclear age, the cultivation of ecological awareness, and the fruitful resonance between Buddhist thought and contemporary science. The many dimensions of this work are explored in her books Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear Age; Dharma and Development; Thinking Like a Mountain; Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory; Rilke’s Book of Hours; In Praise of Mortality; Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives; Our World; Joanna’s memoir entitled Widening Circles ; World as Lover; World as Self; A Year With Rilke; and Pass It On: Five Stories That Can Change the World.

Many thousands of people around the world have participated in Joanna’s workshops and trainings. Her group methods, known as the Work That Reconnects, have been adopted and adapted yet more widely in classrooms, churches, and grassroots organizing. Her work helps people transform despair and apathy, in the face of overwhelming social and ecological crises, into constructive, collaborative action. It brings a new way of seeing the world, as our larger living body, freeing us from the assumptions and attitudes that now threaten the continuity of life on Earth.

Joanna travels widely giving lectures, workshops, and trainings in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Australia. She lives in Berkeley, California, near her children and grandchildren. – workthatreconnects.org