"I Vow Not to Burn Out"

[JudyM]

Opinion piece about the importance (to your cause) of preserving your health and sanity in the face of physical and emotional challenges of activism:

...self-martyrdom is bad role modeling. Burnout and self-sacrifice, the paradigm of the lone hero who takes nothing for herself and gives everything to others, injure all of us who are trying to bring the dharma into everyday lay life through communities of transformative well-being, where the exchange of self for other is re-envisioned as the care of self in service to the community. The longer we live, the healthier we are; the happier we feel, the more we can gain the experience and wisdom needed to contribute toward a collective reimagining of relationships, education, work, and play...

http://goo.gl/596lLK