If we only concentrate on putting out the blaze, we’ll eventually burn out

Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want, by Ruha Benjamin pg 54:

Instead, growing the world we want is like the slow tending of a garden, transforming the plants by fostering relationships, trust, skills, community accountability, and healing. It requires cultivating new habits internally, seeding restorative ways of being together interpersonally, uprooting practices of inequality institutionally, and planting alternative possibilities structurally. If we only concentrate on our internal work while ignoring the fires burning all around us, we’ll eventually be consumed. But if we only concentrate on putting out the blaze, we’ll eventually burn out.