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On Being · April 25, 2024 · 55m
Joanna Macy — A Wild Love for the World (re-release)
Classic re-release. Joanna Macy — Buddhist teacher, ecological philosopher, and systems thinker — on the 'Great Turning,' grief as a sign of love, and why despair is a necessary station on the path to action.
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Macy: we find meaning by taking responsibility for the world we leave to future generations. This extends the meaning-from-responsibility Canon across time — your moral horizon includes people not yet born.
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Macy: environmental grief is not pathology — it's the natural response to genuine loss. The Stoic response isn't to suppress grief but to accept what you can't control (ecological destruction already done) while acting on what you can.
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