It's not like activist work is a nice add-on to what's really important, the spiritual work. The two are inseparable and it goes both ways. Many people are hardcore activists for decades, and they encounter burnout, futility, or a feeling of imbalance. Sometimes they need to go so far as to drop their activism and go on a spiritual journey. They're realizing that all the stuff they're trying to change in the world isn't just out there in the world. It's in them, too. And as long as they're blind to what's in them, they're going to continually re-create it in all that they do.
Charles EisensteinIt is the cry of the separate self, โWhat about me?โ As long as we keep acting from that place, it doesnโt matter who wins the war against (what they see as) evil. The world will not deviate from its death-spiral.
Charles EisensteinEach person you interact with, is an entire universe unto themselves, a Divine Being, unspeakabley precious.
Charles Eisenstein