By Marc Ian Barasch
Building Bridges for Peace brings together young people from Palestine and Israel.
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A calm mind and even temper can help make peace with life’s difficulties.
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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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As Buddhist teaching says, suffering has the potential to deepen our compassion and understanding of the human condition. And in so doing, it can lead us to even greater faith, joy and well-being.
At a weekend workshop I led, one of the participants, Marian, shared her story about the shame and guilt that had tortured her.