Gabriel Burford

Community builder, interfaith chaplain, and climate justice advocate.

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Let's use the urgency of climate to create beautiful communities capable of response. We can act and enrich our lives at the same time.

[Gabriel Burford @gabatticus]

When we find our vocation, we feel challenged to be ourselves.

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More and more I feel that it doesn't matter in the end what method we use to heal - what matters is the degree of loving attention is present in the process

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The purpose of our lives can be felt so personally that we no longer feel it is about us; we're about it.

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Language is to dreams what thread is to cloth.

[Gabriel Burford @gabatticus]

Wishing a lush activism for all, along with John Daniel:

"May we enact our responsibilities / as thoroughly as we enjoy / our pleasures."

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"Whatever the problem, community is the answer."

- Margaret Wheatley

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Love is the water of the heart. Without it, we feel an endless thirst.

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@isabelunraveled Sanctuary as a relational context ❤

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I pray that I do not overlook the earth around me. That the birds might help me remember the sky in my heart, and the stones, the land. It seems everything has its own wisdom, and its own time.

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

Seeing all this violence is overwhelming. It’s the reason I go on about the climate. People do not understand we face unimaginable violence as the world becomes too hot to produce enough food for everyone. Life is precious .It’s terrifying that people can’t see it.

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@magentaceiba @OurBloomNetwork Weave stories about people in your network alongside the practices?

[Scott Lewicki @YogiScottL]

The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an expansion of inner awareness with effective social action, and how to feel one's true identity in both.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin

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[Rob Hopkins @robintransition]

A sobering and vital reminder. Can we do this? Maybe. But only with a huge overhaul of our collective imagination, longing and sense of what's possible. As Don Delillo put it, "longing, on a large scale, is what makes history". Without longing we've no chance. #climateemergency

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The beauty of this approach lies in the doors it opens. As we step towards repairing broken systems, we can renew our social fabrics. Let's weave belonging and justice together again.

[Gabriel Burford @gabatticus]

Identity-based activism feels more powerful to me than an activism that is based on intermittent reactions to unfolding systemic events. When we change our idea of who we are and what our role is in the world, we are capable of sustained response and care.

[Gabriel Burford @gabatticus]

Let's create proactive community identities that remind of us of our commitment to care for each other and the world, rather than act solely out of reactivity to broken systems.