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Compassion is the necessary element that helps light the path to enlightenment, and is indispensable to the creation of a just economy and a peaceful global community. We are close to 100,000 signatures. Lend your name, raise your voice, and join with others to work for a world of which we only thought we could dream.
Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
Click here to download the Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life Reading Group Guide. The guide is designed to help you organize, promote, and facilitate your own reading group. In 2008, Karen Armstrong won the 2008 TED Prize and with it her ―wish to change the world. Karen sought to create a Charter for Compassion. Thousands of people contributed to the process and the Charter was unveiled around the world in November 2009 (www.charterforcompassion.org). The Guide offers suggestions to start and promote a reading group, discussion questions and actions, an "action" statement from Karen, and a suggested reading list of books about the golden rule and compassion for children.
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Raise Your Voice!
Show your face for peace and help war lose its face. Stand up and show your face to help make a statement for peace. Join in the effort of a Voices member and Charter for Compassion supporter, Saeeid Dastmalchian, to create a collage of people "showing" their face and raising their voices for peace.
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Follow the work of Andrew Himes, Seattle writer, filmmaker, technologist, founder of the Voices Education Project, co-founder of Poets Against the War, and author of The Sword of the Lord: The Roots of Fundamentalism in an American Family. He is co-founder and director of the Compassionate Action Network, home of the Charter for Compassion.
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