The World is Meant to be Celebrated Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated. ~ Terry …
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The Great Turning Welcomes Chris Johnstone
Great Turning is honoured to be welcoming CHRIS JOHNSTONE as a session speaker during our inaugural online learning journey: The Great Turning Experiment. Chris will be leading an experiential process with Joanna Macy to support us to honour our pain for a world in crisis, whilst living in gratitude for the gifts of the …
4-week Countdown to The Great Turning Experiment
The countdown has begun and the momentum is building! We're just 4 weeks away from the start of our 4-month online learning journey: The Great Turning Experiment. We'll be coming to you Live online from Findhorn starting 16 March and can't wait to cocreate the 'More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible' with …
When we no longer know ~ Wendell Berry
When we no longer know.... It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is …
The Great Turning Welcomes Pat McCabe – Woman Stands Shining
Great Turning is honoured to be welcoming Pat McCabe – Woman Stands Shining – as a session speaker during our inaugural online learning journey: The Great Turning Experiment. Come and drink from the deep well of Indigenous wisdom prayerfully offered by this leading visionary. Pat McCabe – Weyakpa Najin Win (Woman Stands Shining) – is …
True Love ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
True love: In this short teaching video from Plum Village, Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh talks about how to cultivate the Four Elements of True Love, also known as The Four Immeasurable Minds or The Four Unlimited Minds: Maitri – friendship; loving kindness; Karuna – the capacity to understand and alleviate suffering through compassion; …
Divine Love ~ Rumi
Divine Love... Nothing I say can explain to you Divine Love. Yet all of creation cannot seem to stop talking about it. Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, Persian poet and Sufi mystic (1207–73) Photo by Alexandr Hovhannisyan on Unsplash
2022’s Imperative: Letting Go of Our Past to Birth Our Future by David Korten
2022's Imperative: Let us commit to making 2022 our year for crafting a vision of a life-serving civilization built from a convergence of Indigenous understanding and observations at the leading edge of contemporary science..... Our current society cannot be considered civilized by any objective standard. We grow the fortunes of billionaires, even as we increase …
The Winter of Listening ~ David Whyte
THE WINTER OF LISTENING No one but me by the fire, my hands burning red in the palms while the night wind carries everything away outside. All this petty worry while the great cloak of the sky grows dark and intense round every living thing. All this trying to know who we are and all …
The Great Turning Welcomes Bayo Akomolafe
Great Turning is honoured to be welcoming BAYO AKOMOLAFE as a session speaker during our inaugural online learning journey: The Great Turning Experiment. Be inspired and captivated by the depth and poeticism of this leading visionary. Bayo is globally recognised for his poetic, unconventional, counterintuitive, and indigenous take on global crisis, civic action and …