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GUIDED COMPASSION PRACTICE FOR ALL
Ruth King • Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out
We should speak the truth respectfully, in ways that lead to connection and wise action.
Ruth King • Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out
We must be willing to exchange comfort for racial consciousness and to be more curious than critical or dispirited. If I didn’t belong to you, I wouldn’t have written this book. If you didn’t belong to me, you wouldn’t be reading it. I’m you, and you are me—you just don’t know that yet. We are here, sharing these pages, to embrace our membership in
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Compassion practice motivates wise action.
Ruth King • Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out
What’s Unfinished Is Reborn: Historical Racial Trauma
Ruth King • Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out
Reflect for a moment: Is there someone in your bloodline whose relationship to race affected your life? Perhaps a keeper of the family history? Or someone who hated another race without apology? Or maybe there was a racial secret that was kept that everyone knew about but couldn’t talk about. Maybe someone in your life left a mark on your heart and
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These are experiences to be known through the body, not just in your thoughts.
Ruth King • Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out
The roots are maintained through dominance driven by greed, ill will, and ignorance. We all must think about things together that appear to be separate.
Ruth King • Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out
Regardless of race, we must all concern ourselves with both intent and impact and do what we can to wake up and minimize harm of others and ourselves.