To Feel with the Other: Karen Armstrong Talks with Bill Moyer
- March 19th, 2009
A Radical Conversation on Compassion
I turned on Bill Moyers’ Journal on television last week and found him talking to British scholar Karen Armstrong. Ms. Armstrong told him how she had developed the capacity to see the world as someone radically different from herself saw it, in this case, the prophet Mohammed in 7th century Arabia. This was a
keep reading...>
Other recent posts:
Film Review: Rivers and Tides
A Shift into Joy: A New Course for Peace By Design
more...
Home
On our shrinking globe, there is a pervasive belief in the inevitability of war/armed violence. It is accompanied by a sense of hopelessness and despair that things will ever be different. Peace is seen as those brief periods between outbreaks of armed violence. This blog will introduce a radically different approach which begins with the fact that violence and war are language-based phenomena. Change the language and thinking and you change the behavior. We humans can choose the kind of world we want to live in, if we want it badly enough. If we chose to create a world that worked for everyone, no force on earth could stop us. We have the capacity to create, at this point in history, the kind of future we want for ourselves, our children and future generations. This is Peace by Design.
Here are some of the questions we will address:
How Did We Get Here?








