The Charter for Compassion
- Posted by: Andrew Price
- on November 12, 2009 at 5:46 pm
TED Prize winner Karen Armstrong (who GOOD interviewed here) just released her Charter for Compassion. Here it is, read by a perfectly representative demographic cross-section of humanity.
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The charter has already been signed by the Dalai Lama and Paul Simon. That’s a club I want to be a part of. You can read it and learn more here.
UPDATE: If you’ve got a weblog, there’s an embeddable widget for the charter here.
DISCUSSION: 6 Comments
fabulous video! I read about this on the Greater good blog and would like to write about it for an upcoming column! This is very inspiring.Kari
I like the message here… find your religion and live it, so long as it includes compassion for others. I have been cultivating compassion in myself, and have take on doing one compassionate thing per day. The result: I’m much more in love with the world and the people around me. How great would the world be if everyone took on the Charter for Compassion?My blog http://frameshiftcoaching.wordpress.com
Love this video, love the message; overall, I do feel a trend towards more compassion, and hopefully the good will transcend the bad and we can all bring good towards each other. I for one have been working on not being so judgemental. I try to think: what can I do better so that I am reaching out and being a better person, and how can this affect others. So, I’m trying to broaden my horizons. Sometimes I haven’t been as compassionate as I could have been and I think its important for me to try to recognize that and change to be a better person. I would like to say that it would help me if when I talk about believing in God, that athiests or people who don’t believe didn’t get so upset with me for my beliefs, after all, I allow them their beliefs. I don’t know if this is a human characteristic, it probably is, but I get judged for things that aren’t even true about me before I even open my mouth; and if I had a wish, it would be that we didn’t judge each other so harshly or unfairly. It feels like a losing battle, I’m trying not to pre-judge someone and then they pre-judge me, or vice versa. Just my 2 cents. Overall, I like the message and feel that it transcends cultures.
So inspiring and relevant. With all the media noise about the actions of a few extremists, we tend to forget that the majority of truly religious people are proponents of peace and compassion. Join me in affirming the Charter – http://www.charterforcompassion.org
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Wow. this is truly exciting. If millions of people from all faith traditions (and the non-religious) got behind this, it would be a HUGE statement. I’m in!!!