Valarie Kaur: Activating Revolutionary Love

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Valarie Kaur is a seasoned civil rights activist and celebrated prophetic voice at the forefront of progressive change. She’s the founder of the Revolutionary Love Project and author of the book See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love. With Sounds True, Valarie has created The People’s Inauguration—a 10-day online program to help us reckon with all we have lost and point us toward a vision of the society we can build together, grounded in love. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon and Valarie discuss “revolutionary love” as a guiding ethic for our times. They explore what it is to extend love to all people without limit and how opening our hearts in this way is both an ancient and radical act. Valarie also talks about “the heart and the fist,” and why both are necessary in order to create the systemic, cultural, and environmental transformations our world needs. Finally, Valarie shares what we can learn from our rage and grief, as well as the importance of connecting with our joy and our ancestors as we keep showing up for the labors of love before us.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Insights at the Edge, produced by Sounds True.
0:05.0	My name is Tammy Simon. I'm the founder of Sounds True,
0:09.0	and I'd love to take a moment to introduce you to the new Sounds True Foundation.
0:14.4	The Sounds True Foundation is dedicated to creating a wiser and kinder world by making
0:20.8	transformational education widely available.
0:25.0	We want everyone to have access to transformational tools,
0:30.0	such as mindfulness, emotional awareness, and self-compassion, regardless of financial, social, or physical challenges.
0:40.0	The Sounds True Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to providing these transformational tools to communities in need, including at-risk youth, prisoners, veterans, and those in developing countries.
0:55.2	If you'd like to learn more or feel inspired to become a supporter, please visit
1:00.6	Sounds True Foundation.org.
1:03.0	You're listening to Insights at the Edge.
1:10.0	Today my guest is Valerie Core. Valerie is a seasoned civil rights activist
1:16.7	and celebrated prophetic voice at the forefront of progressive change. She burst into American consciousness in the wake of the
1:26.1	2016 election when her watch night service address went viral with more than 30 million
1:32.4	views as a lawyer, filmmaker, went viral with more than 30 million views.
1:33.7	As a lawyer, filmmaker, and innovator,
1:36.6	she has won policy change on multiple fronts,
1:40.0	hate crimes, racial profiling, immigration detention, and more.
1:45.7	Valerie is the daughter of sick farmers in California's heartland and earned degrees at Stanford University, Harvard Divinity School, and Yale Law School.
1:57.0	She's the founder of the Revolutionary Love Project, which we'll hear more about, and the author of the book, See No Stranger, a
2:06.2	memoir and manifesto of revolutionary love.
2:10.7	Which sounds true, Valerie is launching an important new series. It's called The People's Inauguration,
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