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Preface: The Second Edition | |
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Preface: Retrieving Compassion from its Lonely Exile | |
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Towards a Meaning of Compassion: From Exiling Compassion as Sentiment to Living Compassion as a Way of Life | |
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Compassion is not pity but celebration | |
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Compassion is not sentiment but is making justice and doing works of mercy | |
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Compassion is not private, egocentric or narcissistic but public | |
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Compassion is not mere human personalism but is cosmic in its scope and diving in its energies | |
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Compassion is not about ascetic detachments or abstract contemplation but is passionate and caring | |
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Compassion is not anti-intellectual but seeks to know and to understand the interconnections of all things | |
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Compassion is not religion but a way of life, i.e., a spirituality | |
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Compassion is not a moral commandment but a flow and overflow of the fullest human and diving energies | |
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Compassion is not altruism but self-love and other-love at one | |
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Summary | |
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Sexuality and Compassion: From Climbing Jacob's Ladder to Dancing Sarah's Circle | |
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Climbing Jacob's Ladder | |
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Some consequences of Jacob's Ladder | |
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Dancing Sarah's Circle | |
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Climbing Jacob's Ladder contrasted to Dancing Sarah's Circle | |
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Examples of Sarah's Circle dynamics | |
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Mystical Symbol as a legitimization of secular violence | |
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Summary | |
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Psychology and Compassion: From a Psychology of Control (Competition, Compulsion and Dualism) to a Psychology of Celebration (Letting Be, Letting Go, Letting Dialectic Happen) | |
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Competition vs. compassion | |
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Compulsion vs. compassion | |
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Dualism vs. compassion | |
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Toward a psychology of compassion which is a psychology of celebration | |
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Letting be | |
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Letting go | |
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Letting dialectic happen | |
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Forgiveness and the psychology of compassion | |
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Summary | |
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Creativity and Compassion: From a Fetish with the Cross to an Exploration of the Empty Tomb | |
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Creativity as a way of life for all people | |
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Exploring the empty tomb and the riches of creativity | |
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Entering the tomb as entering into the fears of creating | |
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The creative process as the making of connections | |
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Creativity as compassion | |
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Creativity, extrovert meditation and prophecy | |
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Summary | |
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Science, Nature, and Compassion: From a Mechanistic and Piecemeal Universe to an Organic and Interdependent One | |
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Physics and compassion | |
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Biology and compassion | |
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Animals and compassion | |
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Animals as spiritual directors | |
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Earth, earthiness and compassion | |
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Summary | |
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Economics and Compassion: From an Expansionist Economics based on the 'Wealth of Nations' to an Economics of Interdependence based on the Survival of the Global Village | |
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From Newtonian to Einsteinian economics | |
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Psychology and economics | |
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Sexuality and economics | |
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Creativity in today's economics | |
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Toward an economics of compassion | |
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Seven proposals for discussion | |
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Summary | |
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Politics and Compassion: From an Elitist and Ladder-Like Solution to Political Issues to a Just Sharing in a Sarah-Circle Body Politic | |
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The new meaning of politics | |
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The politics of of energy | |
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Politics and health care | |
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Politics and education | |
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Educating for compassion | |
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Summary | |
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Compassion and the Healing of Humpty Dumpty, the Global Village and Us: From the Salvation of the Privatized Soul to the Mending of the Cracked World Soul | |
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Humpty Dumpty: an overview after the fall | |
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Humpty Dumpty as world egg and cosmic egg | |
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Humpty Dumpty and the search for the human egg or soul | |
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Humpty Dumpty as the new world soul | |
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Humpty Dumpty as the divine soul | |
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Humpty Dumpty and the salvation of our souls | |
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Summary | |
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Notes | |