practice and spread acceptance, understanding and compassion

Thought you mights be interested in this notion of compassionate extremists. Surprisingly, it comes from Madeleine Albright.

“We celebrate the achievements of Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela because they believed deeply but also because they embraced broadly – they were compassionate extremists whose certainty caused them to seek communion—even with their persecutors. The triumph they sought to lead us toward was a victory not of some but of all. This is the kind of leadership we yearn for today. Think how refreshing it would be if all the people in the Middle East and Iraq committed themselves to a victory of all. And how much better the world would be if we each truly followed the teaching that is central to every religion and system of ethics I know, and that is to help those less fortunate than ourselves.”

http://www.unc.edu/commencement/MadeleineAlbrightspeech.html

I found out about this speech from http://mchabib.com/

~b

Of all the blogs I read, one of the most wonderful is the Feel-Good Librarian. Click here to read a moving story about kindness and compassion in action.

so much acceptance, understanding and compassion here on 43T.

It is still weird to me to find this in a virtual space, but I am grateful for it.

is to treat myself with acceptance and compassion