Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in without Going Crazy

by Joanna Macy

Twenty years earlier, the astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle had said, “Once a photograph of the Earth taken from the outside is available, a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.”

Bill Anders, the astronaut who took those first photos, commented, “We came all this way to explore the moon and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.”

Coming from Gratitude, Honoring Our Pain for the World, Seeing with New Eyes, and Going Forth.

Our readiness to help others is influenced by the level of gratitude we experience.

More resources have been consumed in the last fifty years than in all preceding human history.13 Yet we’re not any happier, and depression has reached epidemic proportions.