Sage Warrior

Praise

“Valarie Kaur has never been afraid of wrestling with the biggest questions facing humanity—and in this wise and vivid book, she faces unflinchingly our biggest question of all: how do we live within a changing and collapsing world? How do can our minds and bodies and hearts endure an apocalypse? Drawing upon ancient wisdom while also looking deep within herself (and toward the infinite) Kaur pulls courage from the flames of reality, and calls us all toward sovereignty, sacredness, and love. This is the book we need, and Kaur is a sacred wayfinder.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
 
“A wondrous pilgrimage to the Sikh world! This rich literary, visual, aural magnet pulls us: we travel with the author and her family to her sacred sites and meet historic figures—with their mothers, wives, sisters, daughters, nieces, and comrades who have been neglected in history. We actively participate in momentous Sikh events; we see, we hear, we smell, we taste, we feel. All along, the activist Valerie trains us to be sensuously alive, morally awake—the goal of Guru Nanak, the founder of the Sikh religion himself. Through a stunning, imaginative interweaving of the past with the present, history with imagination, Punjab with California, we are led to the all-inclusive divine One within. This is a transformative text, a must for our dangerously divided and polarized times.”—Nikky-Guninder Kaur, Sikh scholar and author of The First Sikh: The Life and Legacy of Guru Nanak
 
“A beautiful, hopeful, heartfelt treasure of a book. Sage Warrior will enrich your soul, grow your knowledge-base and inspire your activism. If you want to achieve progressive ideals while bridging divides, this is the book for you.”—Eboo Patel, founder of Interfaith America and author of We Need to Build: Field Notes for a Diverse Democracy