SubscribeCharter for Compassion
A few days ago I was driving back from yoga training, listening to NPR and heard Karen Armstrong speak. I’d read her memoir “The Spiral Staircase
The Charter for Compassion is all about remembering the Golden Rule, and always acting with that in mind — empathetically and compassionately toward all life. Basically building a better, more peaceful world by putting yourself in other people’s shoes.
This really inspired me, and I wanted to take part in this event by sharing it here. Pass it on!
I think this is amazing. I have “passed it on” by posting it on my blog- quoted you as my source :)- and wanted to let you know. Thank you so much for sharing it!
I have also “passed it on” on my blog. And it was a good message for me to be reminded of today. Love your art and your posts…very inspiring!
The language is a little stilted and lofty in places… it kind of sounds like that mission-statementese found on plaques of offices everywhere, but then I suppose it needs to be.
And I admire that these folks, (and the rest of us who support it, by extension) can take such a precisely defined stand on something usually described with such vague, floaty terms.
As for their cause, of course I agree, but I just had to say I’m really impressed they were able to put this principle into such exact words, with real modern relevance and real prescriptions for action.
It’s “be good” made into a political movement.