By Marc Ian Barasch — 2006
It’s a spiritual truism that trading places with the less fortunate, psychologically if not literally, can be a powerful motive for doing unto others as you’d have them do unto you.
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According to the dictionary, to forgive is to stop feeling angry or resentful toward yourself or others for some perceived offense, flaw, or mistake. Keeping that definition in mind, forgiveness becomes a form of compassion.
Compassion research is at a tipping point: Overwhelming evidence suggests compassion is good for our health and good for the world.
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At a weekend workshop I led, one of the participants, Marian, shared her story about the shame and guilt that had tortured her.
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