Finally listened to this truly remarkable conversation between @VarshPrakash and @ezraklein. Blown away. It's not as good as everyone's been saying... it's better.
Varshini talks strategy, building power, what's at stake in ways that are incredibly thoughtful and visionary.
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@VarshPrakash of@sunrisemvmt on the Tao Te Ching and organizing: "If you want to lead people the best thing you do is to follow. Humility is extremely important." 9/Show this thread -
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@VarshPrakash of@sunrisemvmt on the Tao Te Ching and organizing: "Be good to people who are good and people who are not good. Trusting people who are trustworthy and people who are not trustworthy." 10/Show this thread -
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@VarshPrakash on Tao Te Ching & organizing: "If you blame others, there's no end to the blame. Finding ways I can take personal responsibility, and my own actions for who I am in this world rather than putting it on to others. So investing into my own personal development." 11/Show this thread -
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@VarshPrakash of@sunrisemvmt on the Tao Te Ching and organizing: "I love the metaphor the Tao has for water. It describes water as being really soft, and this liquid quality, but it can break down the hardest and most intransient among us." /ENDShow this thread -
"There's the fear, there's the despair. And there always will be the fear. I also think that there's the knowledge that there's something more important than it." ~
@VarshPrakash of@sunrisemvmt This is why – at its core –#ClimateCrisis organizing is about love and courage.Show this thread
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