Radical Compassion
Come sit with me as I tell you some stories, and share what I've learned from framing everything with the lens of radical compassion
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Discover a path of radical compassion rooted in the way of Jesus.
How do we practice love and compassion for ourselves and others in a world marred by conflict and violence in our families, communities, institutions—and even our own hearts? In Compassion in Practice: The Way of Jesus, internationally renowned compassion teacher Frank Rogers introduces the spiritual path of radical compassion Jesus walked and taught, grounded in God’s extravagant love for all people. This path transforms hardened hearts and brings healing and wholeness to even the most challenging situations.
In this inspiring and practical book, you’ll discover a series of practices to ground and restore you through self-compassion as you cultivate an ethic of radical care that extends not only to loved ones, neighbors, and strangers, but also to enemies, opponents, and oppressors. Illuminated with extraordinary real-life stories of restorative love in action, these practices will equip you to step heart-first into a challenging world, ready to engage in a new way that beats with the pulse of compassion.
This updated and revised edition provides specific practices for compassionate social activism, more interfaith conversation, and a “compassion compass” to help orient you as you travel the path of healing and restoration.
In Compassion in Practice, you will learn:
The six essential dimensions of authentic compassion
A compassion practice that softens hardened hearts and accesses our best self
Spiritual exercises to cultivate compassion for yourself and others
The critical difference between empathy and compassion
How to practice compassion with a difficult person or amid violence and injustice
Ten principles of empowered and just compassionate action
The Center for Engaged Compassion is a a 501c3 non-profit organization and practical education center that seeks to repair the world by applying the ancient wisdom of compassion and contemplative practices to the problems of today. The Center works in conjunction with a number of academic, institutional, business, and denominational organizations giving people enduring, effective skills to bring peace, reconciliation, and healing to the world.
The wisdom traditions of the world teach that this kind of compassion — a compassion that emerges from a truly engaged sensibility — is necessary for creating true peace, reconciliation, and healing within secular as well as religious contexts. The Center’s social transformation projects, academic programs, and research & development initiatives integrate the knowledge and formative practices of the world’s wisdom traditions with the most advanced contemporary understandings of the human arts and sciences.
Frank Rogers Jr., PhD, is the Muriel Bernice Roberts Professor of Spiritual Formation and Narrative Pedagogy at Claremont School of Theology. He’s a spiritual director, speaker, retreat leader, and the author of Cradled in the Arms of Compassion, Practicing Compassion, Compassion in Practice: The Way of Jesus, and The God of Shattered Glass: A Novel. He focuses on spirituality that is contemplative, creative, and socially liberative. He is the cofounder of the Center for Engaged Compassion and lives in Southern California with his wife, Dr. Alane Daugherty, with whom he shares three sons. www.centerforengagedcompassion.com.
"And transforming the mad ... Restoring right, compassionate relationship". Thank you, Frank.
"to pause ... Listen .... Move... Dance the mad away"