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From Book: Moving Toward the
Millionth Circle: Energizing the Global Women's Movement
By Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.
HEART-CENTERED ACTIVISM
It takes work to be an activist of
any kind.
There are twists and turns,
setbacks, large and small victories,
always much to be done
and more to do.
If you are called to be an activist
"take heart" applies.
It will be a labyrinth journey that
will test you.
Sometimes it will seem that the path
is going straight to the goal,
and then it turns sharply and you
feel back to square one,
as in a board game.
Will you give up or will you keep
on?
Circumstances change, people you
counted on
may not come through,
May join forces with others, abandon
ship,
Or just run out of steam.
It helps all concerned to be in a
circle of support
with shared meaning at the center.
Activism is really not a job for a
do-it-yourself action hero
even if it depends on one person
doing her job
at a particular moment.
When activism is your assignment in
the way that I define it,
meaningful, fun, motivated by love,
then it also is soul work.
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