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“When someone is trying to make you small, it is to busy themselves. Because if they aren’t shrinking you, they will have to contend with themselves. They have work to do, but it is easier to make assignments for others than do the labor yourself. You have done this to others, what is now being done to you. It always feels righteous.”

“The labor I put into my work is clearing everything out of the way until I can listen. The work I do is to look at the moon, or a body of water, or some creature other than human, and wait until I understand something.“