Joanna Macy

Overview

Joanna Rogers Macy born Los Angeles, CA May 2, 1929. Anti-nuclear activist; Buddhist scholar; expert on Gandhian development program. Peace Corps volunteer in India, Tunisia, and Nigeria, 1964-66.

Quotations

"For some of us, our love for the world is so passionate that we cannot ask it to wait until we are enlightened." ("Exploring Our Interconnectedness", In Context #34, p. 22, Winter 1993)

"There comes a time when all life on Earth is in danger. . . two powers have spent their wealth in preparations to annihilate each other, they have much in common: weapons of unfathomable destructive power, and technologies that lay waste our world. . . Now the time comes when great courage—moral and physical—is required. . . These weapons are. . . made by the human mind, they can be unmade by the human mind. . . They arise from our own decisions, our own lifestyles, and our own relationships. . . The weapons are compassion and insight. . . They are gifts for us to claim now in the healing of our world." (prophecy of Choegyal Rinpoche in "World as Lover; World as Self"; photo greatthoughtstreasury.com)