Full Program - Karen Armstrong Public Lecture

[@mmmzmz]

Thinking about others and doing good deeds for them brought me only pain and disappointments. Since I've been thinking and caring about myself first and only about myself, I've become much happier. So much about religion.

[@Madmen604]

charity begins at home and you need boundaries, once you are secure in your own value and self love, then you develop the capacity for loving others. Taking care of self is a good thing, you are worth it. Just do to others what you would have them to or for you.

[@papasitoman]

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[@Madmen604]

OK, but a compassion requires a social shift, requires us to re-construct the terms of dignity and suffering; calling for radical action. There are no fast track easy solutions, like eugenics and euthanasia. We need to challenge the extreme depersonalization and neglect in Canadian health care systems, for example. We need to privilege life affirming social policy and personal action surrounding issues like hyper consumerism, palliative care, inclusion. Compassion isn't a platitude or a fad.