Self-care is not about self-indulgence , it is about self-preservati on.
Interpretation
Self-care prioritizes well-being and preservation rather than mere indulgence.
Audre Lorde's quote emphasizes that self-care should not be mistaken for selfishness or indulgent behavior; rather, it is a necessary practice for maintaining one's health and well-being. By focusing on self-preservation, individuals can sustain themselves physically, mentally, and emotionally, enabling them to engage more fully with the world around them.
In practice
Use this quote in a wellness workshop to emphasize the importance of taking care of oneself.
The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.
There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.
One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.
For some are in the habit of carrying about the name in wicked guile, while they still practice things unworthy of God. You must flee these as you would wild beasts. For they are ravening dogs, who bite secretly, against whom you must be on your guard, since they are men who can scarcely be cured.
The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already. The ground of practice is you or me or whoever we are right now, just as we are. That’s the ground, that’s what we study, that’s what we come to know with tremendous curiosity and interest.
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error... They are the natural enemies of error, and of error only... If [free enquiry] be restrained now, the present corruptions will be protected, and new ones encouraged.
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