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CHARTER FOR COMPASSION TRAILER from TED Prize on Vimeo.

There is an urgent need for a new focus on compassion.

Bringing together voices from all cultures and religions, the Charter seeks to remind the world we already share the core principles of compassion.

On November 12, thousands of people across the globe will listen together.

Participate and engage with the Charter now at charterforcompassion.org

Director: Gilly Barnes
Music: Fredo Viola
Additional Footage: Peter Roger

The Command is Life: the Whisper is Love

Kevin A. Beck writes:

Love whispered by the voice takes countless shapes including truth, eros, agape, philia, ahimsa, brahman, nirvana, ishq, amor, ahava, storge, anatta, ren, science, wonder, delight, passion, satyagraha, laughter, music, art, inspiration, infinity. Read more ...

Kevin's Living Earth is another beautiful new blog full of such whispers.




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Oneness

"Let there be such oneness between us that when one cries, the other tastes salt." ~Anonymous

Joy ... or Do It Again

A child kicks its legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, Do it again; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough... It is possible that God says every morning, Do it again, to the sun; and every evening, Do it again, to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike: it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we. ~~G. K. Chesterton

Consciousness is Contextual

Noë challenges this by turning upside-down what would normally be convincing evidence that the brain really does create a world for us. This evidence comes from an experiment in perceptual psychology by Harvard researchers that went like this: A college student stops a professor on campus to ask for directions. While the professor is explaining where to go, two workmen walk between them carrying a large door, blocking the professor’s view. He doesn’t see that one of the workmen switches places with the college student. By the time they part ways, the professor has failed to notice he began the encounter speaking with one person and ended it with something else. This has been dubbed “change blindness.”

Change blindness appears to be proof positive that the brain fabricates a mental picture of the world based on information that does not exist. We live in a delusion, therefore, a world of shadows. The goal of neuroscience, then, much like the goal of philosophers in Plato’s day, is to figure out why the world appears to us as a complete picture when in fact it isn’t. Read more... at Religion Dispatches by John Stoehr

I dread success ...

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one’s business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. ~~~George Bernard Shaw

God, thus defined, has nothing of the ready-made; He is unceasing life, action, freedom. Creation, so conceived, is not a mystery; we experience it in ourselves when we act freely. ~~~Henri Bergson