Author: Carl Goldberg
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313057834
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Morality is a subject most ignored and little understood by modern psychological investigation. Why a person acts honorably, or heinously, is one of the most puzzling and least answered questions regarding human behavior. Here the authors posit that despite the fact that hatred and arrogance continually battle compassion and decency as humanity's driving force, people continue to develop altruism, empathy, and concern for others. Goldberg and Crespo demonstrate seven factors crucial to achieving a compassionate life. Goldberg and Crespo take us inside their treatment rooms, through history, across cultures and into their own personal worlds-at-large to meet clients and acquaintances including a would-be rapist, a virtuous stalker, an adulterous minister, and a young boy with little more than a matchbook and some pride to call his own. Together, the stories of these clients and historical figures including Nazis at Nuremberg reflect a vital theme: Virtuous behavior should not be a mystery. Morality is a subject most ignored and little understood by modern psychological investigation. Why a person acts honorably or heinously is one of the most puzzling and least answered questions regarding human behavior. The authors demonstrate that although within every human breast hatred and arrogance battle compassion and decency as a driving force, people do indeed develop altruism, empathy, and concern for others. Goldberg and Crespo outline seven crucial factors in the achievement of a compassionate life. This book addresses two audiences. First, it questions modern psychological scientists who have ignored the importance of compassion, virtue, and morality, focusing instead on contrived experimental situations rather than pursuing investigations in—as part of—the actual world in which we live. Yet it is also written for all people concerned with the moral crisis in comtemporary society, and all people seeking personal and social solutions to deal with this crisis.
Author: Lynne Namka
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781492963271
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Psychologist Dr. Lynne Namka's contemplative meditation on the power of compassion in our lives, with photographs by Robert Alan Silverstein, Co-Founder of The Kindness Team.
Author: Karen Armstrong
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307595595
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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The award-winning author of A History of God shares practical recommendations for promoting world peace by cultivating one's intrinsic tendencies for compassion, outlining a program for achieving mindfulness and engaging in acts of kindness.
Author: Dalai Lama
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0861718186
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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"The key to a happier and more successful world is the growth of compassion." --His Holiness the Dalai Lama Giving and receiving affection is the key to happiness, and compassion is the key that opens our hearts to affection. Illuminating themes touched upon in The Good Heart and The Art of Happiness, this generous and gentle book contains some of the most beloved teachings on compassion that the Dalai Lama has ever offered. Touching and transformative, The Compassionate Life is a personal invitation from one of the world's most gifted teachers to live a life of happiness, joy, and true prosperity. Collected here for the first time are four of the Dalai Lama's most accessible and inspiring teachings on compassion. The purpose of life is to be happy, His Holiness reminds us. To be happy, we should devote ourselves to developing our own peace of mind; the more we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own peace of mind. Therefore, we must develop compassion for others in order to be truly happy. In these four teachings--imbued with the gentle humor and extraordinary kindness of this incomparable teacher--His Holiness explores altruism and the need for compassion on an individual as well as a global scale. He offers specific practices for developing loving-kindness and compassion in even the most difficult situations.
Author: Dzigar Kongtrul
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 0834840138
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Tibetan Buddhist instructions for developing radical compassion through lojong mind training—from a contemporary master with a gift for making the ancient teachings speak to modern hearts Dzigar Kongtrül's lively and accessible presentation of the Tibetan training method known as lojong (mind training) focuses on what he considers the heart of that practice: tonglen, the practice of exchanging self for other, for taking in others’ pain and suffering and sending out kindness, ease, and consolation. It’s a powerful method for developing compassion of the most transformative kind, and its supreme expression is found in the classic text The Great Path of Awakening by Jamgon Kongtrül. This book is Dzigar Kongtrül's commentary on that beloved text, based on a series of talks he gave on it. It includes his fresh translation of the Great Path, and it is full of his characteristic humor as well as his skill in translating esoteric concepts into terms that not only are easily understood but that speak directly to the heart.
Author: Marc Barasch
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN: 9781576757567
Category : Career development
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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With a keen balance of hope and skepticism, Barasch sets out on a journey to the heart of compassion, discovering its power to change who we are and the society we have become. He describes encounters with empathetic apes, and with Buddhist monks whose brain scans prove the power of compassion; with a man who forgave his daughter's murderer; with teenage Palestinian and Israeli girls trying to wage peace; even with astronomers trying to send a missive to E.T. that we're not only clever, but kind.Barasch poses vital questions: What can we learn from exceptionally empathetic people? How do we open our hearts to those who do us harm? What if the great driving force of our evolution were actually "survival of the kindest?" Drawing on science and spirituality, history and popular culture, button-down business and a high sense of fun, he creates a smart, provocative argument that a simple shift in consciousness changes "pretty much everything."
Author: Paul E. Miller
Publisher: NavPress Publishing Group
ISBN: 9781612915678
Category : Love
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Maybe you know who Jesus is, but do you know what He was like as a person? Discover the personal side of Jesus.
Author: Marc Ian Barasch
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458777685
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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How can compassion, a trait hardwired into our nervous system and waiting to be awakened, transform our lives and the world at large? Marc Barasch provides up-to-the-minute research to timeless spiritual truths, and weaves a stirring, unforgettable story of the search for kindness in a world that clearly needs it. With unfailing curiosity, Barasch poses vital questions: What can we learn from exceptionally empathetic people? Can we increase our compassion quotient with practice? What if the great driving force of our evolution were actually "survival of the kindest?" He comes up with challenging, ultimately inspiring answers. With encounters as diverse as observations of compassion amongst bonobo chimpanzees, to the story of a man who forgives his daughters killer, to teenage Palestinian and Israeli girls trying to wage peace, Barasch blends hard science and popular culture with his own hip, engaging narrative style to create a smart, provocative argument that a simple shift in consciousness changes pretty much everything.
Author: Thupten Jinpa
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 069818646X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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The Buddhist practice of mindfulness caught on in the west when we began to understand the everyday, personal benefits it brought us. Now, in this extraordinary book, the highly acclaimed thought leader and longtime English translator of His Holiness the Dalai Lama shows us that compassion can bring us even more. Based on the landmark course in compassion training Jinpa helped create at Stanford Medical School, A Fearless Heart shows us that we actually fear compassion. We worry that if we are too compassionate with others we will be taken advantage of, and if we are too compassionate with ourselves we will turn into slackers. Using science, insights from both classical Buddhist and western psychology, and stories both from others and from his own extraordinary life, Jinpa shows us how to train our compassion muscle to relieve stress, fight depression, improve our health, achieve our goals, and change our world. Practical, spiritual, and immediately relevant, A Fearless Heart will speak to readers of The Art of Happiness and Wherever You Go, There You Are.
Author: Jackie Hudson
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725245590
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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PRAISE FOR COMPASSIONATE LIVING "I've known Jackie more than 30 years, and we've walked together closely on this road to growth. No one knows the process emotionally, personally, and spiritually better than Jackie Hudson. And no one gives more compassionate, practical, and life-changing insight." --Mary Graham President, Women of Faith "One major source of emotional woundedness is not that we forget we're Christians-it's that we forget we are human! In Compassionate Living, Jackie Hudson unpacks our inside baggage and helps us re-sort our belongings. Some we throw out. Some we rearrange. Some we leave at the foot of the cross. The content, the PRAY Process, and the follow-up exercises will bring immediate clarity as well as long-term change. It is a holistic approach that will launch you into a season of adventure and a lifetime of healing." --Wayne Cordeiro Chancellor, Pacific Rim Christian College Consortium "Jackie's words in this book are like a salve to the soul. She ministers to our innermost issues and encourages us to stay engaged in the process of growth. Jackie outlines practical ways you can experience grace, truth, and time, so you can grow deeper in your relationship with God and with others." --Steve Sellers Vice President for the Americas, Campus Crusade for Christ
