Ecopsych quotes

These are some quotes collected by an ecopsychology proff. at Naropa.

The Dali Lama has said, “The long term solution to the environmental crisis must come form the positive and the confident. It will never come from the mind of anger and despair. “ Paul Hawken, author of Blessed Unrest at one point said he gave the average activist 10 years at most, due to burn-out and being consumed by their anger and strong emotions. The Christian mystic, Thomas Merton said many years ago and still rings true for me today, “There is pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist most easily succumbs: activism and over-work.. to allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too may demands, to commit oneself to too many people, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. " The frenzy of the activist neutralizes his (her) work for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of his own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.”