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Book: Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
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  1. Karen Armstrong _ Twelve Steps to a

    With this new empathetic understanding of the context, we will find that we can imagine ourselves, in similar circumstances, feeling the same.
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  2. Karen Armstrong _ Twelve Steps to a

    And before you embark on an argument or a debate, ask yourself honestly if you are ready to change your mind.
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  3. Karen Armstrong _ Twelve Steps to a

    Remember that we can become twinned with an enemy and come to resemble him. Our hatred may become an alter ego, a part of our identity.
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  4. Karen Armstrong _ Twelve Steps to a

    We have a duty to get to know one another, and to cultivate a concern and responsibility for all our neighbors in the global village.
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  5. Karen Armstrong _ Twelve Steps to a

    Compassion dervies from the Latin patiri and the Greek pathein, meaning "to suffer, undergo or experience." So "compassion" means "to endure {something} with another person," to put ourselves in somebody else's shoes, to feel her pain as though it were our own, and to enter generously into his point of view. That is why our hearts, discover what gives us pain, and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else. Compassion can be defined, therefore, as an attitude of principled, consistent altruism.
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  6. Karen Armstrong _ Twelve Steps to a

    As we develop our compassionate mind, we should feel an increasing sense of responsibility for the suffering of others and form a resolve to do everything we can to free them from their pain.
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  7. Karen Armstrong _ Twelve Steps to a

    Compassion impels us to work tirelessly to alleviate the suffering of our fellow creatures, to dethrone ourselves from the centre of our world and put another there, and to honour the inviolable sanctity of every single human being, treating everybody, without exception, with absolute justice, equity and respect.
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  8. Karen Armstrong _ Twelve Steps to a

    Saint Augustine … insisted that scripture taught nothing but charity. Whatever the biblical author may have intended, any passage that seemed to preach hatred and was not conducive to love must be interpreted allegorically and made to speak of charity.
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  9. Karen Armstrong _ Twelve Steps to a

    {T}he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. {68}
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  10. Karen Armstrong _ Twelve Steps to a

    We can either emphasize those aspects of our traditions, religious or secular, that speak of hatred, exclusion, and suspicion work with those that stress the interdependence and equality of all human beings. The choice is yours. {22}
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    If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. {95}
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