The contemplative has given me a sens of sit and wait

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The contemplative has
given me a capacity

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that I didn't have before

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which is this ability to wait.

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Often we come to points
in our work

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where nothing's moving forward
and we find there's an obstacle.

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And I would often try
to push through those moments.

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And often pushing through
those moments replicates

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the kind of oppression that we're
trying to fight right or trying to heal.

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And so the contemplative is
kind of built in me a capacity

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to discern those moments
like, okay,

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nothing is moving forward here.

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The spirit isn't moving here.
We're stuck.

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And so it is giving
me the ability to sit,

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be able to breathe through
those times of feeling stuck,

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feeling like things
aren't moving forward

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and to be able to wait
for the circumstances to shift,

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for new ideas to come up
sometimes it's a new person.

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We'll be stuck in a
place in our campaign

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and then we'll meet someone
who has the access that we need

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to be able to get the information
across to the person in power

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you know.

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So that ability to just sit and wait

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is something that the
contemplative has given me.