Love is our fuel. Our time is well served here.
Tapping into love energy
A Heart As Wide As the World
Sharon’s A Heart as Wide as the World offers gentle guidance and heartfelt stories drawn from decades of Buddhist practice, inviting readers to expand their capacity for compassion. Through meditation and lovingkindness, she illustrates how opening our hearts connects us deeply to others and provides the strength to navigate life with wisdom and kindness.
Sharon Salzberg
The Purpose of Power
Alicia Garza’s journey from a heartfelt message to co-founding the #BlackLivesMatter movement reveals the evolving nature of activism in today’s world. Drawing on decades of experience, she offers a fresh approach to organizing that centers inclusivity and collective awakening for lasting social change.
Alicia Garza
Love and Rage
Lama Rod Owens’s Love and Rage invites readers to confront and embrace their anger as a necessary and powerful response to systemic injustice and historical trauma. Blending personal narrative with spiritual practices, the book offers a path toward healing and liberation that refuses to dismiss rage but instead honors it as a catalyst for deep transformation and social change.
lama rod owens
all about love
In All About Love, bell hooks redefines love as a transformative force that shapes both personal and collective well-being. Blending cultural critique with personal reflection, she challenges conventional ideas about love and argues for its power to heal, connect, and drive social change.
bell hooks
Forward Stance
Explore a new way to move in the world with this information on the Forward Stance, a movement-building adaptation of the 60/40 Stance (TM) which emphasizes a mind-body approach.
Move to End Violence
SWITCH PATHWAYS
GROW COMMUNITY
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