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The latest issue of Tikkun is filled with powerful articles about Restorative Justice and how essential this move from punitive to unitive, healing justice is essential to bringing Compassion to the center of our being.  And there is an online only article featuring Seattle's great foray or experiment with the police around the John T Williams case last year.  Check it out: …

Enjoy the 25th installment of entries collected from the population of Davis, California, USA:

Compassion, to me, is understanding that all things have causes... all actions have roots in the past, roots that connect us all. None of us are to blame, and yet none of us are free of responsibility. Therefore, we should care for one another, and see yourself in the other.

Compassion, co-passion, feeling together. Feeling what others feel, connected to others.…

Feb 15 @ Kane 225 UW - Religious Founders Day will focus on Tolerance and Mutual Respect this year, with great speakers and great food. Join us for an inspiring event.

Details availble at http://my.compassionateactionnetwork.com/events/tolerance-and-mutual-respect

... and I need it now!

In what is known as the “impact economy,” public administrators – that group of public service professionals not usually associated with innovation – are proving themselves to be incredibly effective agents of social innovation.  From policy makers to nonprofit managers, they are the shepherds of social innovation.  By both constructing enabling frameworks for investors and entrepreneurs to operate in  and actively implementing solutions to social problems, public administrators are…

Watching the news is often an exercise in testing your endurance about crises, disasters and heart-breaking stories.  The tsunami of bad news buries the abundance of good news stories that exist. If we are what we surround ourselves with then paying attention to the good news stories alters our experience of being alive.

A man I know was determined to stop watching or reading the news because he said it made him feel helpless and despondent. A friend of his challenged him – “There’s…

The “politics of envy” in the United States is political fodder masking a truth that Dr. Martin Luther King pointed to almost 50 years ago. He said his entire work pointed to one goal - the creation of a “beloved community” of Americans. His prescient words invite a new conversation about who we are.

The Pew Research Center reports that two thirds of Americans believe…

http://villagebooks.com/village-books-sarah-van-gelder-01/12/12

Zen Buddhism and American Poetry

with Prof. Ewan Magie

"This course examines the ongoing and deepening relationship between Zen Buddhism and American poetry. We will read, study, and discuss poetic and philosophical precursors, as well as investigate 20th and 21st century American poetry (and some prose) steeped in or informed by Zen Buddhist practice and thought. We…

I stand on a corner in Davis, California USA and ask people to write their concept of compassion in a notebook. Been doing so for over two years now, and occassionally I share some of the responses here on CAN. About a year ago self-published a portion of those responses in a compilation book and since then people offer their gratitude on how it's affected them after reading it and also the different ways it's been used--most recently a son bought it for his mother and she used it in a…

Hello, new CAN friends!

Here is the link to a blog posting that was also posted on the website of EthicsDaily.com. I invite you to read and to add your comments.

http://www.ethicsdaily.com/news.php?viewStory=19046

Blessings!

. . . with Iran. We have had no official contact since 1979, a too-long silence that didn't even exist with the Soviet Union during the Cold War!

http://www.truth-out.org/urging-obama-stop-rush-iran-war/1325349237

Can you imagine how Kennedy and Krushchev could have resolved the Cuban…

Is it possible to imagine peace in the New Year? It is if you claim your voice and imagination. The world needs that from each of us. Every intention and act of yours shapes what it means to be human and create a culture of peace as you take steps in that direction.

Peace sounds too big, too overwhelming to many.  Instead of being debilitated by what you can do to bring peace about back up and approach it from two other vantage points. Peace emerges when conflicts are resolved and…

The Protester has been elevated by Time Magazine to a richly deserved new status. When you claim your voice as an individual you become more fully alive. When your voice joins together with the voice of…

The Charter for Compassion team invites you to host a screening of "The Happy Movie" on February 11, 2012. This thoughtful and funny film was produced by Tom Shadeyac, who made "Bruce Almighty" with Jim Carrey and other top films. 

The film shows the important link between happiness and compassion. It's a…

Congratulations to CAN! The "International Campaign for Compassionate Cities" is one of the inputs that helped spark the idea for the 2012 TED Prize Winner. What's the next step? Help the TED Prize team answer the question: "If you could make a wish on behalf of The City 2.0, what would it be?" Join the conversation to define the "Wish" that will inform how the $100,00 award is invested?…

Spalding University, located in Louisville, Kentucky, is the first university in the world to be designated a "Compassionate University" by the International Institute for Compassionate Cities. The decision by the Spalding leadership to meet the requirements of the Institute was made as…

The 23rd installment of concepts on compassion from the populace of Davis, California USA:

To be open to the idea of caring for another person or peoples' position in life. To realize and act on the fact that everyone has struggles and that no one should be alone in thrie hardships.

La compassion est de supporter inentalement(sp) les personnes qui en ont besoin.

I feel compassion is the sharing of the universes energy with one…

Come and learn how to make conflict become an opportunity to learn and deepen relationships for your group-community-family etc. - rather than a source of strife and division and discouragement.  We'd love to see you there to help bring more Compassion to our City!  Check it out:  http://my.compassionateactionnetwork.com/events/restorative-circles-facilitation-workshop

Greetings-

I'm reading at Book Passage in Corte Madera this Thurs. Dec.1at 7pm from my book, Help Me Live (Revised): 20 things people with cancer want you to know, and would love to meet you and hear from you.

The presentation will involve humor, hope, and compelling stories, as well as ample time for conversation and discussion, particularly about the statement, "I want…