In this important and thought-provoking work, Karen Armstrong one of the most original thinkers on the role of religion in the modern world provides an impassioned and practical guide to helping us make the world a more compassionate place. The twelve steps she suggests begin with Learn About Compassion, and close with Love Your Enemies. In between, she takes up self-love, mindfulness, suffering, sympathetic joy, the limits of our knowledge of others, and concern for everybody. She shares concrete methods to help us cultivate and expand our capacity for compassion, and provides a...
In this important and thought-provoking work, Karen Armstrong one of the most original thinkers on the role of religion in the modern world provide...
Even before her birth, Karen Armstrong faced crippling adversities-one that left her on the edge of death throughout her entire upbringing. Unwanted by a young prostitute mother, inadequately raised and abused at the hands of an relentless aunt, who's schizophrenia and multiple personalities left Karen lucky to be alive. Karen chronicles a life of molestation, rape, abuse, and moving in and out of girl shelters and foster homes. As a high school drop-out, homelessness, low self-esteem, and continued promiscuity plagued her young adult years. BROKEN FOR YOU is a raw look at one woman's journey...
Even before her birth, Karen Armstrong faced crippling adversities-one that left her on the edge of death throughout her entire upbringing. Unwanted b...
'The beautifully quirky title of Karen Armstrong's first collection of poetry maps the final journey of a friend who is dying of cancer. These poems capture the warmth of unselfish love; of a relationship despite trying circumstances. A pact between two friends where one shares the burden vicariously as the other faces debilitating illness and inevitable death.' - Peter F. Pike, Managing Editor, FreeXpresSion
'With unpretentious simplicity and directness, Karen Armstrong conveys the tangled emotions - defiance, confusion, anger, black humour and acquiescence - experienced...
'The beautifully quirky title of Karen Armstrong's first collection of poetry maps the final journey of a friend who is dying of cancer. These poem...
'An amazingly wide-ranging book, showing that the world's religious texts can be a force for good today' John Barton, author of A History of the BibleIn our increasingly secular world, holy texts are at best seen as irrelevant, and at worst as an excuse to incite violence, hatred and division.
'An amazingly wide-ranging book, showing that the world's religious texts can be a force for good today' John Barton, author of A History of the Bible...