Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life (Hardcover) by Karen Armstrong

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Twelve steps to create a better you and a better world. Karen Armstrong takes the Golden Rule and follows it through major religions to find a better way to live. She suggests that all follow the same Golden Rule and that by doing so make a better world. Karen Armstrong has written many books on ...

from bezoar44

This is an immensely thoughtful book, and it is hard not to appreciate Karen Armstrong's project here: to outline a very practical, ethical path by which readers can develop compassion and empathy, and ultimately make the world a far better place. That said, if you are already familiar with world...

from William345

I liked this book a lot. In it religious historian Karen Armstrong suggests a series of simple and easily achieved mental exercises that can help one increase one's capacity for compassion. Armstrong offers justification for these exercises by way of copious examples from the history of religion....

from Laura400

An excellent and thought-provoking book arguing that the core value of all the great religions is, at base, the Golden Rule, and providing some some tips for applying it on a personal and even national level. It's not exactly a self-help book, but more of a philosophical book. Perhaps it's a self...

from debnance

I liked this book, but I'd hoped to love it. Perhaps I didn't spend enough time with it...of course, I didn't do the prescribed exercises...does anyone really do them all? Lovely ideas here, but I think I've lived in macho-posturing Texas too long to have any real hope that compassion will take h...