The Power of Compassion: Stories That Open the Heart, Heal the Soul, and Change the World

by Pamela Bloom, Joan Halifax Roshi, Joan Halifax

Book Overview

Compassion is much more than a state of mind. That's because it has the power to move people to act on behalf of others.
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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571746293
• ISBN13: 9781571746290
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.9" x 6.9"