Letting truth speaks from the right place

Avec : Holly Roach Knight

activism contemplation

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Being able to discern the difference between the kairos moment and the kind of egoic need to be heard or seen is a really helpful exercise in contemplative activism.

Contemplative activism helps us to know from what place we are speaking of.

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One of the classic examples
of contemplative activism

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is the difference
between the kairos moment

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and maybe the desire
to be seen or heard.

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Often some people are wired
for activism and others are not.

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A lot of us who come
from that kind of action place

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have reasons for that,
have motivations for that.

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In myself I was raised with
a very kind of abusive father

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and so I realized

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early on the first couple of years
my activist career

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that my kind of angry way
of coming you know coming out,

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I was a very rebellious activist

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and it was really
expressing feelings

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that had been beneath
the surface for many years.

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I was angry at patriarchy.
I was angry at a lot of things.

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And as I grew as an activist,
I needed,

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I kind of began to realize that

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I needed to have an awareness of

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when I was coming from a place
of kind of needing to be heard

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or needing to be seen

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versus the kairos moment
which is when you know

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truth is wanting to be spoken.

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You know that the spirit
is kind of at your back

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and pushing you to speak
something that needs to be heard

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that needs to be in the room.