“How do we create more of our work with the idea that any of us may need to take a pause at any point in time?”

I think the best way to do collaborative and collective care is to ask, How are we backing each other up? How are we encouraging each other to take the breaks we need, but not making ourselves make impossible choices? How do we make sure the goals of our work are covered so that nobody has to burn themselves out because they’re politically committe

We must ask ourselves, How much discomfort is the whole world worth?

“practice makes different.”

Goodness, to them, is a designation to be defended rather than something that they seek to generate in the world in concert with other people.

For thirty minutes, material would be read aloud—creating space to collectively listen while also allowing members who could not read the opportunity to hear the information. Members would then spend fifteen minutes discussing the material, listening to each other’s thoughts in response to the work.

Organizers will often repeat the maxim, “We have to meet people where they are at.” It is difficult to meet someone where they’re at when you do not know where they are. Until you have heard someone out, you do not know where they are, so how could you hope to meet them there? Relationships are not built through presumption or through the deploymen

To stay in the moment with another person, to truly hear and consider what they are saying without slipping into reaction or retreating inward, can require intention. If we are bored, uncomfortable, or irritated, we may be inclined to either interrupt or escape. This tendency hinders us in a number of ways.

a constant unveiling of reality.”