Book Review : Inspirational/ Spiritual
The Power of Compassion: Stories That Open the Heart, Heal the Soul, and Change the World
Edited by Pamela Bloom; Foreworded by Joan Halifax Roshi
Here more than forty, first-person stories by the likes of John F. Kennedy, Jr., Pema Chodron, Barbara Brodsky, Thich Nhat Hanh, Jay Jarvis Masters, Joan Halifax, and Sogyal Rinpoche that demonstrate how compassion can be a dynamic force that achieves concrete consequences. In one story, a monk welcomes a dying child into his home, providing the boy with practical care and a sense of peace during the boy's last nine months of life. In another story, a civil rights protester learns from a cellmate how to find compassion for those she once considered to be the "opposition."
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Hampton Roads Publishing;Charlottesville, VA; www.hrpub.com; 256 pages, paperback; $15.95 (May 2010) ISBN-10: 1571746293
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