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Standing at the Edge – with Roshi Joan Halifax

Deconstructing Yourself

Roshi Joan Halifax speaks with host Michael W. Taft about her new book, Standing at the Edge, the shadow sides of altruism, empathy, integrity, respect, engagement, and rays of hope in current times.

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How to Be More Empathetic

More and more, we live in bubbles. Most of us are surrounded by people who look like us, vote like us, earn like us, spend money like us, have educations like us and worship like us. The result is an empathy deficit, and it’s at the root of many of our biggest problems.

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Claire Cain Miller
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Standing at the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet

Joan Halifax has enriched thousands of lives around the world through her work as a humanitarian, a social activist, an anthropologist, and a Buddhist teacher.

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Joan Halifax, Rebecca Solnit (foreword)
2019
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An Introduction to Rest

Some people harbor the illusion that rest is a luxury they do not have time for, but the reality is that rest is a necessity.

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2022
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Helping Others Makes Us Happier—But It Matters How We Do It | Elizabeth Dunn

Research shows that helping others makes us happier. But in her groundbreaking work on generosity and joy, social psychologist Elizabeth Dunn found that there’s a catch: it matters how we help.

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2019
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Give Your Money. Give Your Time. Don’t Tell Anyone.

You can find deep, lasting happiness in a good deed that no one knows you did.

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Arthur C. Brooks
2021
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What Is Generosity? (And How to Be a More Generous Person)

Simple ways to be more generous to others.

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Tchiki Davis
2019
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True Generosity Involves More than Just Giving

Virtues such as generosity are complicated. They involve more than just outward behaviour. A person’s underlying thoughts, feelings and motives matter, too.

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Christian B. Miller
2018
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The Science of Generosity

This paper presents an overview of research on the science of generosity, predominantly focusing on studies from the past 20 years.

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Summer Allen
2018
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Giving Is Good—For Others, But Also for You

In addition to being a deeply embedded characteristic which is correlated with happiness . . . giving also has significant benefits for givers.

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Tracy Brower
2021
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Being Generous Really Does Make You Happier

Researchers say they’ve discovered that even thinking about doing something generous has real mood-boosting benefits in the brain.

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Amanda MacMillan
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