See the big picture: a whole society in travail. In our corporate profit-driven, consumer society, the roots of suffering — greed, hatred, and delusion — have taken powerful, institutionalized forms. We share collective karma, and, to the extent that we recognize it, we begin to change it. . . . Spiritual friends have helped me see, we are fully capable of accepting responsibility for our common condition — and in ways that don't cripple us with guilt, but empower us to act. For in this dance of dependent co-arising, every thought, word, and deed has ripple effects we can barely perceive. Therefore, to live in genuine awareness of our mutual belonging in the web of life is, in itself, good, strong medicine for the healing of the our world.

Joanna Macy, Not Turning Away by Susan Moon