A Wild Love for the World

By Joanna Macy,

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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 Macyā€™s lifework. Combined with elevenā€¦

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I was fortunate enough to see Joanna Macy speak at Spirit Rock with my mom back in 2015. She warned us away from the ā€œditches of paralysis and panic,ā€ which were the exact things I found myself stuck in after completing my book in 2021. Macy is so many thingsā€”an activist, a translator of Rilke, a Buddhist scholar, a moving speaker, a mother, a teacherā€”and this book, created in celebration of her ninetieth birthday, is a lovely introduction to her writing and that of those sheā€™s inspired. I felt so grateful to discover it and be reminded of something elseā€¦

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