Widening Circles: A Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.31 (764 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0865714207 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Joanna Macy is a teacher and tireless workshop leader from Berkeley, California.
She teaches in these San Francisco Bay area graduate schools: The California Institute of Integral Studies, The Starr King School for Ministry, and The University of Creation Spirituality. Macy's autobiography reads like a novel as she relates her multi-faceted life experiences and reflects on how her marriage and family life enriched her service to the world.Macy's formative years with an abusive father and oppressed mother set her on an irrevocable path of self-definition and independence. Macy lives in Berkeley, California.Marketing for Widening Circles: National advertising campaign Author events and publicity in San Francisco Bay area Autographed bookplates available Co-op money availableAlso available by Joanna MacyComing Back to LifePB $16.95, 0-86571-391-X USAThinking Like a MountainPB. A short-lived stint with the CIA exposed Macy first hand to the Cold War's darkest threats: the construction of the hydrogen bomb and the building of the Berlin Wall. She is the author of s
Now more than 70, she writes about her life very engagingly, from the maple tree she loved as a child on her grandfather's farm to her current home in the Bay Area; from India and Africa to Tibet, Sri Lanka, and Washington, D.C. From Booklist Macy has traveled widely and lived deeply: she is an "eco-philosopher" and a scholar of Buddhism. Her voice is warm, and her message--that love can endure, that the deepest hurts can heal, and that care for the environment is not only possible but necessary--suffuses all she writes. She tells of her controlling father, her love of study, her marriage and children, and her lovers and friends, but above all, she reflects on her life as a spiritual journey that embraces grace, Buddhist practice, and the sacred power of words. All rights reserved. GraceAnne DeCandidoCopyright © American Library Association. For those unable to attend one of her workshops on deep ecology or Buddhism, this memoir offers a glimpse and a taste
Five Stars A. Iverson thank you. R. Griffiths said A life worth living. I read this book because I had already found 'World as Lover, World as Self' to be inspiring. Joanna Macy's combination of Buddhism, general systems theory and deep ecology seems to 'fit' for me, but here it is her sheer humanity that impresses most. In this memoir she is not afraid to lay open her weaknesses as well as her strenghths, her questions as well as her answers. While her story ends in Bodh Gaya, the Indian site of the Buddha's awakening, what struck me most was th. shantinik said Coming to Understand Who We Really Are. I live in the Pacific Northwest. We are experiencing a rather intense conflict over whalehunting by the Makah Indian Nation. Many non-Indian (and some Native) environmentalists and animal lovers oppose the whalehunt, mainly on the grounds that it sets a poor precedent to restart it after a 70-year hiatus, and that it makes a mockery of attempts to preserve the natural environment. Some, in my opinion, have been particularly disrespectful of tribal elders and customs, publicly