[Ailist] If you had one wish...Compassion

[Roger Davies]

Hi All,

I watched the video and concurred with pretty much all of it. However,
compassion is about how we ACT as individuals it does not reside solely in
religion. It should be more of a bottom up movement than a top down one. 

How do we use this great machinery of the media to show where compassion is
being acted out and to celebrate it? 
How do we get compassion rated as the highest form of performance in every
organization in the world and steer away from solely financial impact based
factors? 
How should we reward compassion? 
Do we need to reward compassion? 
Is there a 'compassion in business' award? I'm sure that over time these
businesses would also be seen to be excellent performers and thereby provide
the data that other industries will need to be convinced by.

Roger



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[mailto:ailist-bounces at lists.business.utah.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Wolf
Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 1:10 AM
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Subject: RE: [Ailist] If you had one wish...

RE: Karen Armstrong's wish

Karen Armstrong's one wish, which she is seriously in action towards
fulfilling, is "I wish that you would help with the creation, launch and
propagation of a Charter for Compassion, crafted by a group of leading
inspirational thinkers from the three Abrahamic traditions of Judaism,
Christianity and Islam and based on the fundamental principles of universal
justice and respect."

This is the Wish she made as a TED Prize Winner in 2008, and you can see
much more about it - including viewing her talk, and updates since last
year, at http://www.tedprize.org/karen-armstrong/   

Scott Wolf



On Mar 23, 2009, at 11:41 AM, Sue Hammond wrote:

> Bill Moyers interviewed a woman who is trying to create a compassion 
> movement throughout the world. She is British, first name Karen, not 
> sure of her last name. You can usually see those programs on the web. 
> Karen is an ex-nun who has researched all the religions of the world 
> and finds that compassion is the underlying denominator of all. I 
> believe her definition included what I would call reframing, of 
> putting yourself in someone else's shoes to see it from their 
> viewpoint.



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