Every white person in the world has to keep looking at our histories and our habits and our assumptions and our privilege. We have to keep having the hard conversations and building new coalitions and connections. But we also have to invite Love to the table to transform all of our thoughts and words and actions into heart-centered practices.

In recent years, creating heart-centered practices has healed a lifelong habit of rude and chronic lateness. I was never ever on time — and it infuriated everyone who loved me or who worked with me. I have healed the looming presence of my mother in my life that I used to keep me in cripplingly virulent self-loathing. So I know this stuff works.