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Compassion & offering support to others

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True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart

In this eye-opening guide, Zen monk Thich Nhat Hanh offers timeless insight into the nature of real love.

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FindCenterIf you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

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Trance of ‘Unreal Other’

The truth is: Without a genuine willingness to let in the suffering of others, our spiritual practice remains empty.

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The Compassion Code: How to Say the Right Thing When the Wrong Thing Happens

What if you knew that compassion was the antidote to healing our hurt, hate-filled world? Would you know how to use it in every circumstance, with family, friends, and strangers alike? Would you be open to doing so, even when it involved acts that may seem unforgivable? Would you be willing to be...

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Interview with Dr. Helen Weng

In her work at the Osher Center and as an affiliate faculty member of the Neuroscape Center, Dr. Helen Weng is developing new ways to quantify meditation skills using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and machine learning to identify mental states of body awareness during meditation.

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FindCenterWounding and healing are not opposites. They’re part of the same thing. It is our wounds that enable us to be compassionate with the wounds of others. It is our limitations that make us kind to the limitations of other people.

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How to Open Yourself Up to Receiving Help

Some people resist compassionate support from others. Here’s why—and what they can do about it.

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Op-Ed: You Know ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ During a Crisis Aren’t Enough. Here’s How to Really Be Helpful

Compassion is anything but abstract. It can be taught and practiced.

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Sympathy, Compassion, and Empathy: The Shamans Cave, with Sandra Ingerman & Renee Baribeau

In today’s world we do not know how to respond to global catastrophes as well as issues that come up with our friends and loved ones. We often confuse pitying others with compassion. But in reality when we pity people, nature beings, or places we disempower them.

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FindCenterOne fire burns out another’s burning, one pain is lessen’d by another’s anguish.

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