"To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe -- to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs that draw nourishment from it -- is a wonder beyond words."

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Source : Joanna Macy, Molly Young Brown (2014). “Coming Back to Life: The Guide to the Work that Reconnects”, p.91, New Society Publishers

Joanna Macy

#Beautiful Quotes #Self Quotes #Alive Quotes

“. . . the sin of abortion, or the destruction of unborn children - lies somewhere a close kin to the crime of destroying human life and certainly to be condemned.”
“I want people to be like, 'Your album's just as good as Kendrick [Lamar]'s or Esperanza Spalding or Beck. I work just as hard as them.”
“So for thy spirit did devise Its Maker seemly garniture, Of its own essence parcel pure.-- From grave simplicities a dress, And reticent demureness, And love encinctured with reserve; Which the woven vesture would subserve. For outward robes in their ostents Should show the soul's habiliments. Therefore I say,--Thou'rt fair even so, But better Fair I use to know.”

Source : Francis Thompson (2002). “Poems of Francis Thompson”, p.14, A&C Black
“My philosophy, like color television, is all there in black and white.”
“What we need is a theology of salvation that begins and ends with a recognition of every person's hunger for glory.”
“There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought -a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!”
“Listening to radio was like group meditation or a moment of silence in church. You can't get the same effect with TV unless you're very drunk.”
“'American Dad' is, by its nature, much more political.”

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