From “Queering Contemplation: Finding Queerness in the Roots and Future of Contemplative Spirituality” by Cassidy Hall
Much of the contemplative work I once leaned into depended on the notion that withdrawing from the world was the best way to love it more deeply. But this idea, created by voices of the contemplative status quo, ignored how showing up to our lives and communities can be an act of contemplation, liberation, or even survival (of story or self). For many, including me, contemplation begins right where we are – and going away from the world disregards our responsibility to make it a better place for all of creation.