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A Catholic school principal questions a priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student.
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Building Bridges for Peace brings together young people from Palestine and Israel.
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.
Marc Ian Barasch on "The Compassionate Life"
Marc Ian Barasch, dubbed "one of today's coolest grown-ups" by Interview magazine, sets out on a journey to the heart of compassion. He discovers its power to change who we are and the society we have become. Compassion, he concludes, is "a prescription for authentic joy.
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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Compassion is both innate and a trainable skill that can be cultivated to counter burnout. Based on the scientific principles of neuroplasticity, epigenetics, and inborn basic goodness, Dr.
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Research has found that incorporating compassion into your leadership strategy can increase productivity and happiness.
In man’s world, animals often bear the worst of our dark side, suffering under the stresses of cruelty and ruthlessness, however, being compassionate towards animals may actually be good for your health and well-being, perhaps even prolonging your life.
Friendship . . . is born at the moment when one man says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .’
Leading scientists and science writers reflect on the life-changing, perspective-changing, new science of human goodness. Where once science painted humans as self-seeking and warlike, today scientists of many disciplines are uncovering the deep roots of human goodness.