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Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
Karen Armstrong
Knopf
January 2011
On Sale: December 28, 2010
240 pages
ISBN: 0307595595
EAN: 9780307595591
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
One of the most original thinkers on the role of religion in
the modern world—author of such acclaimed books as A History
of God, Islam, and Buddha—now gives us an impassioned and
practical book that can help us make the world a more
compassionate place. Karen Armstrong believes that while compassion is intrinsic
in all human beings, each of us needs to work diligently to
cultivate and expand our capacity for compassion. Here, in
this straightforward, thoughtful, and thought-provoking
book, she sets out a program that can lead us toward a more
compassionate life. The twelve steps Armstrong suggests begin with “Learn About
Compassion” and close with “Love Your Enemies.” In between,
she takes up “compassion for yourself,” mindfulness,
suffering, sympathetic joy, the limits of our knowledge of
others, and “concern for everybody.” She suggests concrete
ways of enhancing our compassion and putting it into action
in our everyday lives, and provides, as well, a reading list
to encourage us to “hear one another’s narratives.”
Throughout, Armstrong makes clear that a compassionate life
is not a matter of only heart or mind but a deliberate and
often life-altering commingling of the two.
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