July 13: “The unity we desire will last only if we cultivate an unyielding and charitable disposition toward one another.” –Gandhi (Young India, May 11, 1921) In 2009, religious scholar Karen Armstrong won a prize from the TED Institute for, as their tagline goes, “an idea worth spreading.” It was compassion. Her wish, emerging from… read more
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“Hearts as Broad as the Ocean”–Daily Metta
July 12: “Make your hearts as broad as the ocean.” –Gandhi (Young India, January 1, 1925) Compassion is as essential to nonviolence as dehumanization is to violence. From Latin, it means “to suffer with,” or to paraphrase religious scholar Karen Armstrong, “to put yourself in the shoes of another, and take the journey with them.”… read more
