Joanna Macy on Work That Reconnects

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Buddhism, Mental Health

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Joanna Macy is an environmental activist, author, a scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology. She has written and co-authored many books, including translating much of Rilke’s work

Eric and Joanna discuss her translations of Rilke along with her important “Work That Reconnects”.

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Joanna Macy and I Discuss her Work That Reconnects and…

Her book translation, Letters to a Young Poet by Rilke
The joy she experienced translating the work of Rilke with her coauthor Anita Barrows
Having patience, curiosity and learning "to live the questions now"
Asking ourselves how can we trust and be trusted
Her important work called "The Work That Reconnects"
Her three visions of living
"Business as Usual" refers to the growth economy and capitalism
"The Great Unraveling" refers to the world losing its coherence
"The Great Turning" is the slowing down the destruction of the world and building new ways of doing things
Her important activist work
Knowing what we can control, but still caring about what we can't control
How this work is a "celebration of the awareness of the great reciprocity at the heart of the universe"

Joanna Macy Links:

Joanna’s Website

Work That Reconnects

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0:00.0	How can we build trust in each other and in ourselves?
0:04.8	When we ask ourselves that question, the question itself helps.
0:18.2	Welcome to the one you feed.
0:20.2	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have,
0:24.8	quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.
0:30.4	And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:34.6	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.
0:39.3	We see what we don't have instead of what we do.
0:42.2	We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:45.6	But it's not just about thinking.
0:47.6	Our actions matter.
0:49.2	It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:53.3	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction.
0:58.4	How they feed their good wolf.
1:14.0	My father was a block star.
1:15.7	It was like Biddlemania.
1:17.2	But not here in America.
1:18.7	Dean Reed criticized the American government from behind the Iron Curtain.
1:22.3	He had lots of enemies.
1:23.8	He was calming us, think all.
1:25.4	He wanted to come back home and then the unthinkable happened.
1:29.1	Dean Reed died.
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