12 steps to compassion book

In this important and thoughtprovoking work, karen armstrongone of the most original thinkers on. You cannot lean to swim by sitting on the side of the pool watching others cavort in the water. Twelve steps to a compassionate life by karen armstrong, 9781847921581, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Nearly three years ago, in february of 2008, karen armstrong was awarded the ted prize for her comprehensive scholarship of world religions and her groundbreaking work in interfaith understanding. In this important and thoughtprovoking work, karen armstrongone of the most original thinkers on the role of religion in the modern worldprovides an impassioned and practical guide to helping us make the world a more compassionate place. She makes the case that without compassion humanity cannot survive over the long. The following year armstrong published twelve steps to a compassionate life, a book recommended to our parish for personal and small group study. Affirm the charter and invite your friends to do the same. I try to bring goodness where previously i had brought discord and destruction. Compassion as a topic deserves an entire book to itself.

This book summary take the successful practice of the 12 step program and apply it to different sphere altogether. In twelve steps to a compassionate life, the british author of numerous acclaimed works on the worlds religions takes on a new role. Twelve steps to a compassionate life is not a gripping novel or a heartwarming piece of nonfiction. Twelve steps to a compassionate life by karen armstrong asks us to be compassionate with everyone, all the time, including those we consider our enemies. Karen armstrong taking as her starting point the teachings of the great world religions, karen armstrong demonstrates in twelve practical steps how we can bring compassion to the forefront of our lives.

Dec 27, 2011 about twelve steps to a compassionate life. This week, religious scholar and 2008 ted prize winner karen armstrong released 12 steps to a compassionate life, a practical guide to the understanding and practice of compassion. William parish leadership drafted a statement in 20 and formed a committee to study and promote a tenyear process of becoming a more compassionate community of faith. With the charter for compassion and compassionate action network international cani staff and board members. Armstrong lays out a clear time line that shows how. Jan 07, 2011 in twelve steps to a compassionate life, the british author of numerous acclaimed works on the worlds religions takes on a new role.

Armstrong has come up with a 12 step programme to propagate. We can all learn to become more compassionate by following twelve steps outlined in the book. Join the intercultural dialogue institute gta for their book club. My bottom line would be that this book is good as history but the program it offers is unlikely to work for people struggling to hold a job and feed themselves and. Twelve steps to a compassionate life paperback december 27, 2011 by karen armstrong author. Karen armstrong, twelve steps to a compassionate life, anchor books, december 2011. One of the most original thinkers on the role of religion in the modern worldauthor of such acclaimed books as a history of god, islam, and buddhanow gives us an impassioned and practical book that can help us make the world a more compassionate place. Compassion is not pity, but the shared suffering of the other.

Reading groups will use the book twelve steps to a compassionate life to seed discussions that produce the following results. Twelve steps to a compassionate life is both a manifesto and a selfhelp manual. Each of the world religions has its own particular genius. Learn about compassion compassion, says armstrong, is like. Karen armstrong will be signing her new book after the event, and once again i would like to thank 192 books for being our excellent independent bookseller. One of the most original thinkers on the role of religion in the modern worldauthor of such acclaimed books as a. Twelve steps to a compassionate life audiobook listen. Get her 12 steps for living a more compassionate life. Twelve steps to a compassionate life by karen armstrong in chm, fb2, txt download ebook. With a new book, 12 steps to a compassionate life, armstrong continues her efforts to work toward a world that honors this great idea.

May 25, 2011 with a new book, 12 steps to a compassionate life, armstrong continues her efforts to work toward a world that honors this great idea. Facilitator manual for karen armstrongs 12 steps to a compassionate life since january of 20 the peacecenter has focused on compassion as a path to peace. Armstrongs purpose in twelve steps to a compassionate life is to draw out the better angels of our nature and, more precisely, the better, common impulses of all the worlds great religions. Twelve steps to a compassionate life quotes by karen armstrong. It shows you in concrete terms how you can cultivate compassion in your everyday life, and helps you to do your part in making the world a better place. The twelve steps armstrong suggests begin with learn about compassion and close with love your enemies. In her book entitled, twelve steps to a compassionate life, religious historian karen armstrong teaches that the first two steps to a compassionate life are learning about compassion and looking at our own world. Transformation, the case for god, and most recently and just out now twelve steps to a compassionate life.

Twelve steps of alcoholics anonymous hazelden betty ford. Twelve steps to a compassionate life benedictine sisters of. Facilitator manual for karen armstrongs 12 steps to a. And though she offers these 12 steps, its not a getcompassionatequick scheme. Karen armstrongs 12 steps of compassion to change the. Books 12 steps compassionate life, when helping hurts. This week we conclude a multiweek study of her book, twelve steps to a compassionate life. Karen armstrong believes that while compassion is intrinsic in all human beings, each of.

Dec 18, 2010 twelve steps to a compassionate life is both a manifesto and a selfhelp manual. Buy a cheap copy of twelve steps to a compassionate life book by karen armstrong. The author begins by giving readers the task of learning more about compassion and how it is practiced across the world and across time. Karen armstrongs twelve steps to a compassionate life. Twelve steps to a compassionate life audiobook, by karen armstrong. Each step beginning with learn about compassion and ending with love your enemies is a practice. Armstrong has come up with a 12step programme to propagate. As a manifesto, it promotes her campaign to place compassion at the heart of religion. While its true that the 12 steps were originally based on the principles of a spiritual organization, the world isnt the same as it was in 1935 when aa and the 12 step program was founded. Twelve steps to a compassionate life twelve steps to a compassionate life audiobook, by karen armstrong. Twelve steps to a compassionate life npr coverage of twelve steps to a compassionate life by karen armstrong. In our perilously divided world, author and ted prize winner karen armstrong says one thing can bring us all together. Twelve steps to a compassionate life by karen armstrong. Oct 14, 2015 twelve steps to a compassionate life by karen armstrong in chm, fb2, txt download e book.

Karen armstrong believes that while compassion is intrinsic in all human beings, each of us needs to work. Jan 12, 2011 so the book, which is modeled on the alcoholics anonymous 12step program, offers a stepbystep guide to understanding compassion, then integrating it into daily life. The books title could as well be twelve steps to cherrypicking. May, 2012 in twelve steps to a compassionate life 2011, anchor books, religion scholar and prolific writer karen armstrong invites members of all faiths to reclaim their spirituality and to embrace its true purpose and goal. Armstrong would have us feel compassion for jared loughner, the. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws.

The great explainer has unapologetically become an activist. Study the place of compassion in the worlds major faiths. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Start studying 12 steps to a compassionate life quiz. In this important and thoughtprovoking work, karen armstrongone of the most original thinkers on the role of religion in the modern worldprovides an impassioned. Jan 10, 2011 armstrong admits compassion isnt a very popular virtue. Twelve steps to a compassionate life book by karen armstrong. Learning about compassion is the first step, but you cant learn to swim by reading a book about swimming. Two years and then some of nearly daily use, popping white crosses and other street junk to keep going, working three jobs to make grades and tuition and rent. Karen armstrong, one of todays most original thinkers on the role of religion in the modern world, believes that compassion was a central feature in the beginning of all the worlds enduring religions. Twelve steps to a compassionate life karen armstrong.

In between, she takes up selflove, mindfulness, suffering, sympathetic joy, the limits of our. Armstrong structures her book as a 12step guide toward becoming a more compassionate person. The twelve steps armstrong suggests begin with learn about compassion, and close with love your enemies. I went to a private college i didnt want to go to, kept up a high gradepoint average because i had to. Karen armstrongs latest work, twelve steps to a compassionate life, is a fascinating look at concepts of compassion across all of the worlds major faiths and includes the concept that one need not be religious in order to have a compassionate viewpoint something that many religious writers nowadays seem to ignore. It is often misunderstood, occasionally very greatly misunderstood, not only in program but in the spiritual life generally. On christmas eve, the ted blog had a chat with karen about the ways people around the world are embracing the charter for compassion the result of her ted prize wish a. I find time to do and say things that would help heal the damage that i have done. In between, she takes up selflove, mindfulness, suffering, sympathetic joy, the limits of our knowledge of others, and concern for everybody. Karen armstrong is a historian of religion and the founder of the charter for compassion that has had farreaching worldwide impact since its inception in 2009. Jan 06, 2011 buy twelve steps to a compassionate life reprint by armstrong, karen isbn. The book outlines twelve steps towards the compassionate life which modern sages could use to heal the chaos of violence and power struggles. The charter defines compassion as that attitude which compels us to work tirelessly to alleviate the suffering of. Jan 07, 2011 armstrong structures her book as a 12 step guide toward becoming a more compassionate person.

Compassion is definitely not painted as a fluffy, pollyanna concept. In between, she takes up compassion for yourself, mindfulness, suffering, sympathetic joy, the limits of our knowledge of others, and concern for everybody. Twelve steps to a compassionate life book depository. Last week was the finish of blog articles on the 12 steps to immortality. But if we were to apply the lessons spelled out in a new book twelve steps to a compassionate life by former nun karen armstrong we would go much further than that. Twelve steps to a compassion life by karen armstrong. Here are karen armstrongs 12 steps to a compassionate life. Here, in this straightforward, thoughtful, and thoughtprovoking book, she sets out a program that can lead us toward a more compassionate life. Nov 29, 20 12 steps to compassion in our perilously divided world, author and ted prize winner karen armstrong says one thing can bring us all together. As part of this emphasis, weve been facilitating book studies of karen armstrongs twelve steps to a compassionate life. Im now writing a book based on the 12 step articles. As i write the book, 12 steps to immortality, ill share a bit of. The 12 steps armstrong suggests begin with learn about compassion and close with love your enemies. Twelve steps to a compassionate life free pdf, chm, fb2, txt.

Twelve steps to a compassionate life quotes showing of 76 if it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. To expect an average reader to follow 12 steps to a compassionate life may be a misunderstanding of the pure desperation required to work the 12 steps of alcoholics anonymous. Identify ways to regularly practice compassion in personal and public ways. She will also be taking questions before the signing, and i encourage you very. Awarded the 2008 ted prize, armstrong set out to draft a charter for compassion. Armstrong is was born in great britain and has authored over 20 books comparing the worlds major religions. Empathy circle 10 12 steps for compassion book club. Twelve steps to a compassionate life audiobook by karen. Examine the teachings of your own religious or secular tradition about compassion. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. In twelve steps to a compassionate life 2011, anchor books, religion scholar and prolific writer karen armstrong invites members of all faiths to reclaim their spirituality and to embrace its true purpose and goal.

Buy twelve steps to a compassionate life reprint by armstrong, karen isbn. Armstrong admits compassion isnt a very popular virtue. Armstrongs case depends heavily on radical selectiveness in quoting from the faith traditions she credits for the concept and practice of compassion. The word god was eventually replaced with higher power to be more accessible to everyone, regardless of faith traditions or beliefs. Twelve steps to a compassionate life is a stepbystep guide to bringing more compassion into the world. Compassion and selfishness compassion lies at the very heart of our practice of step 12.