I recently finished reading Karen Armstrong’s 12 Steps to a Compassionate Life. This is a very good book that I highly recommend. In it, Armstrong presents 12 different looks on compassion and challenges the reader to work through each step in order to increase your compassion. After having read it through once, I’ve decided that I am going to devote Read more…
I’d like to share with you an excerpt from a book I am reading, Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life by Karen Armstrong. In it, she shares an experience of hearing words from a superior that she was a good, valuable, person. Her superior at the time was suffering from the pains associated with cancer and was not expected to Read more…
A group of colleagues and I met recently to talk about what it means to be “who you are”. One part of the discussion focused on how we develop our sense of self. In particular, we looked at the development of self similar to a developing story line. So much of our lives are centered around storytelling, even how we Read more…
“A bell is no bell till you ring it. A song is no song till you sing it. And love in your heart wasn’t put there to stay: love isn’t love till you give it away.” –The Sound of Music I recently began reading a book, Anan Cara by John O’Donohue. I’d like to share with you a part of Read more…
A couple of weeks ago, my husband and I went to see a play by the Fine Arts department on campus. It was quite a treat, seeing as we hadn’t had a weekend off work together in a long time. The play was A Gross Indecency by Moïsès Kaufman, which is about the trials of Oscar Wilde during the 1890s. There was Read more…
