5/7/2023 0 Comments Valarie kaur bookStarting from that place of wonder, the world begins to change: It is a practice that can transform a relationship, a community, a culture, even a nation. It enjoins us to see no stranger but instead look at others and say: You are part of me I do not yet know. Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize - In a world stricken with fear and turmoil, Valarie Kaur shows us how to summon our deepest wisdom.-Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love How do we love in a time of rage? How do we fix a broken world while not breaking ourselves? Valarie Kaur-renowned Sikh activist, filmmaker, and civil rights lawyer-describes revolutionary love as the call of our time, a radical, joyful practice that extends in three directions: to others, to our opponents, and to ourselves. adapted from jacket Book Synopsis An urgent manifesto and a dramatic memoir of awakening, this is the story of revolutionary love. Kaur has reenvisioned love as a public ethic: a commitment to loving others, opponents, and ourselves. and around the globe, Kaur answers the central question of our time: How do we love in a time of anger? How do we love those who hurt us? How do we love those who are different from us, whose race or religion or politics we do not understand? And how do we love ourselves? When we practice love in the face of fear or rage, it has the ability to transform an encounter, a relationship, a community, a culture, even a country. About the Book In a moment when people are hungry for meaningful ways to respond to the ascent of nationalism, polarization and hate in the U.S.
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