‘The environmental crisis has deep attitudinal roots. To restore our environment we need to heal our relationship with it, and that means healing the split in the psyche that cuts us off from the material world. It means revisioning the relation of mind and matter. The bulldozing of nature and the abuse of our own bodies reveal the depth of this separation, the fear it engenders, and the need to control… Matter itself, if we attend to it mindfully and gracefully, can help liberate us from delusion; for it is mind, not matter, that is in bondage.’ Joanna Macy, World as Lover, World as Self
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