Karen Armstrong presents a bold and inspiring overview of compassion and reverence for life as ideals that can save the planet. Here is an excerpt on compassion as an essential practice of the religions that developed during the Axial Age from 800 - 2000 BCE.
"What mattered was not what you believed but how you behaved. Religion was about doing things that changed you at a profound level.
Karen Armstrong has come to my attention in a big way recently. Click through for a thought-provoking excerpt.