Waking up to Wisdom - to save the earth

Listen to this inspiring talk from Joanna Macy who advocates that because people are highly defended it doesn’t work trying to tell them what to do or think. We have to allow ourselves to discover our voice from within - which is the OutoftheBox way.

”The environmental organisations who are delivering information assuming they could stir or scare people is having the opposite effect.”
"The voice people most need to hear is the voice from within because the voice within wants to live and we cover it over with various forms of distraction and addiction”
”Planetary anguish is necessary because it is the loss of a previous identity and the loss of a previous code that worked.”
“We need each other. One to one isn’t nearly as good as in a group - where you can fall in love with each other and with life.”
"We are learning how to love each other."

Joanna Macy is an environmental activist, author, and scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology. She is most renowned for her book "Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World" and the Great Turning initiative which she discusses here in this short film.