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This book also explores the intersections of another set of discordant notes: the overlapping space between contemplative action and active contemplation. Along the journey of community transformation, religious sources help us hold both active and passive expressions of life and faith in balance. Community transformation requires active, tireless action as we confront the realities of exploitation, dehumanization, and suffering. Such confrontations can be painful, because they require a level of honesty about humanity’s death-dealing ways. Growing awareness takes courage as we relinquish our biases and reunite dualistic perceptions. We are transformed by a mutual loving encounter in two dimensions: active effort and passive receptivity; works of compassionate justice balanced by open accessibility; insistent love tempered by the capacity to be loved in return. I call this “spiritual activism.”