Tonight begins our year long journey of reading and discussing "Twelve steps to compassion" by Karen Armstrong. Hopefully we will also begin to look at ways we can be more compassionate to people whose paths cross ours and begin to live intentionally compassionate live. I am intrigued by Armstrong's book and have not succumbed to pre-reading, we will journey and learn together. I am sure our individual points of view will be challenged, both religiously and socially. I hope that we will each come to a deeper or different understanding of compassion and how we might enact compassion in our lives. Perhaps we will make our small corner of the world a better place. Do you think we sometimes confuse compassion with pity?
Some would ask, "Why cultivate compassion?"
What do you think?