Twelve steps to a compassionate life charter for compassion. Learn more about twelve steps to a compassionate life in the delaware county library system digital collection. In our polarized world today, however, weve failed to understand and to apply the golden rule, says karen armstrong in her twelve steps to a compassionate life. As a manifesto, it promotes her campaign to place compassion at the heart of religion. Twelve steps to a compassionate life life changing books to. Twelve steps to a compassionate life paperback the.
She will also be taking questions before the signing, and i encourage you very. Twelve steps to a compassionate life isbn 9781847921581. Editions of twelve steps to a compassionate life by karen. Feb 11, 2011 armstrongs purpose in twelve steps to a compassionate life is to draw out the better angels of our nature and, more precisely, the better, common impulses of all the worlds great religions. Dec 28, 2010 listen to twelve steps to a compassionate life audiobook by karen armstrong. Karen armstrong is a historian of religion and the founder of the charter for compassion that has had farreaching worldwide impact since its inception in 2009. Here, in this straightforward, thoughtful, and thoughtprovoking book, she sets out a program that can lead us toward a more compassionate life.
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Jan 12, 2011 this week, religious scholar and 2008 ted prize winner karen armstrong released 12 steps to a compassionate life, a practical guide to the understanding and practice of compassion. Twelve steps to a compassionate life is a stepbystep guide to bringing more compassion into the world. Theres enough material in it for twelve 2hourlong class sessions, but its arranged so that you can pick and choose. The great explainer has unapologetically become an activist. Armstrong uses the golden rule as the foundation of her discourse on what it means to live.
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