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In her book A Short History of Myth, Karen Armstrong makes the point that every time humans take a step forward, they revise and update their understanding of the world.
Bruce Feiler • Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age
The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions by Karen Armstrong (New York: Anchor, 2007).
Josh Kaufman • The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything . . . Fast!
can human beings come to understand their own well-being as linked to that of others, in wider and wider circles, beyond family and tribe?
Krista Tippett • Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and the Art of Living
can human beings come to understand their own well-being as linked to that of others, in wider and wider circles, beyond family and tribe?
Krista Tippett • Becoming Wise
Hazrat Inayat Khan
Noah Levine • Dharma Punx
There is the common ground of the common good, and there are the semi-private domains of our diverse religious traditions. We are responsible to society for the former, to our own community for the latter.
Jonathan Sacks • To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
The Germans (of course) have a word for it: herzensbildung, training one’s heart to see the full humanity in another.