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Karen ArmstrongTwelve Steps to a Compassionate Life

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Then, as now, there would always be people who preferred the option of devoting their religious energies to sacred space over the more difficult duty ...

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Compassion has been advocated by all the great faiths because it has been found to be the safest and surest means of attaining enlightenment.

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Compassion dervies from the Latin patiri and the Greek pathein, meaning "to suffer, undergo or experience." So "compassion" means "to endure [somethin...