![]() Her wild love for the world is a beacon to us all-and an exuberant invitation-to join our passion to hers, whatever the lives we lead. Through all of this, Joanna has come to embody a singular clarity of vision about the totality of what it means to be human-at this moment in time. ![]() And she became a great Buddhist teacher before anyone understood how this tradition would meet twenty-first-century people and potentialities. She was an environmentalist before that term was on every tongue. She attended to the human trauma as Rilke’s central European world disappeared in the aftermath of World War II-and in the exile from Tibet of a young Dalai Lama. I marvel at her many callings and adventures. ![]() I first discovered Joanna through her gorgeous translations of the poet Rilke, a voice of the last century’s turnings that she has brought to accompany us in ours. "The conversation I had with Joanna Macy early in our tender, tumultuous century has shaped me ever after. ![]()
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