Revolution is a shift in the distribution of power. It winds up being about ideology and control. It is rarely about changing the human heart. But that is the only place where we can make the changes that are essential, the changes that make us into loving human beings willing to risk what love requires.
Where do we learn to love? Who teaches us how to love? What gives us the strength and motivation to practice love as relentlessly as we must?
Going to a protest march or donating to an organization or speaking out are important, but we have to be willing to take on the daily tasks of love: suffering with others, compassionate action, generosity, the sacrifice of personal privilege, shedding ignorance.
As simplistic as it may seem, love is the answer. Not easy love. Not greeting card love. But love that comes deep from within ourselves.
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