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1: Wonder - Valarie Kaur

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“Seeing no stranger begins in wonder. It is to look upon the face of anyone and choose to say: You are a part of me I do not yet know. Wonder is the wellspring for love… It is easy to wonder about the internal life of the people closest to us. It is harder to wonder about people who seem like strangers or outsiders. But when we choose to wonder about people we don’t know, when we imagine their lives and listen for their stories, we begin to expand the circle of who we see as part of us. We prepare ourselves to love beyond what evolution requires.” “Wonder is where love begins, but the failure to wonder is the beginning of violence. Once people stop wondering about others, once they no longer see others as part of them, they disable their instinct for empathy. And once they lose empathy, they can do anything to them, or allow anything to be done to them. Entire institutions built to preserve the interests of one group of people over another depend on this failure of imagination.” — Vala

Learn → The Compass → Love for Others → Love for Opponents → Love for Ourselves → Resources You can use the Revolutionary Love Compass as a tool in all arenas in your life. We have identified ten core practices of revolutionary love , backed by research and infused with ancestral wisdom. Revolutionary Love is the choice to labor for others, our opponents, and ourselves to transform the world around us. It begins with wonder: “You are a part of me I do not yet know.” Think of these practices as points on a compass. Point the compass toward whomever you want to practice loving— another, an oppon

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