I’VE HAD MY FIRST QUICK SCAN of Karen Armstrong’s Twelve Steps To A Compassionate Life. Looks like it’s going to be a good read, especially following my reading of the Zanders’ The Art of Possibility and early days with what I think is going to be another of those ‘lifelong friends’ (thanks again, David), Birth of the Chaordic Age.

Karen Armstrong calls for a revival of the Golden Rule of Compassion. What might such a revival look like? What would politicians, and people of faith, and all the peoples of the world have to do to make a start on such a revival? Well, as the weekend approaches, hugely grateful for the many encounters I’ve had with some fabulously compassionate and visionary people in this past week, some of them in person, others through the gift of their writing, I’m determining to be on the lookout for the many signs of compassion and goodness I know are already at work in the world. I’m 100% with Karen Armstrong’s desire for a revival of the Golden Rule. I’ll do all that I can within my own life sphere to help to bring about a deeper compassion between all peoples. And I’m going to start afresh, with a new determination, with a prayer of thanksgiving to the compassionate Source of all our lives for the people and places where the Golden Rule has already established itself as our life’s work. And God bless TED. “We can change the world”.

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