Thursday, March 29, 2012

March 29 Tip: View Carrie Newcomer's Beautiful Music Video "Betty's Diner"

March 29 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace
View Carrie Newcomer's Beautiful Music Video "Betty's Diner"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8tF70BscaE&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Here are the lyrics:

Miranda works the late night counter
In a joint called Betty’s Diner
Chrome and checkered tablecloths
One steamy windowpane
She got the job that shaky fall
And after hours she’ll write till dawn
With a nod and smile she serves them all


Ch: Here we are all in one place
The wants and wounds of the human race
Despair and hope sit face to face
When you come in from the cold
Let her fill your cup with something kind
Eggs and toast like bread and wine
She’s heard it all so she don’t mind


Arthur lets his earl grey steep
Since April it’s been hard to sleep
You know they tried most everything
Yet it took her in the end
Kevin tests new saxophones
But swears he’s leaving quality control
For the Chicago scene, or New Orleans
Where they still play righteous horns

Ch: Here we are all in one place
The wants and wounds of the human race
Despair and hope sit face to face
When you come in from the cold
Let her fill your cup with something kind
Eggs and toast like bread and wine
She’s heard it all so she don’t mind


Jack studies here after work
To get past high school he’s the first
And his large hands seem just as comfortable
With a hammer or a pen
Emma leaned and kissed his cheek
[ From: http://www.elyrics.net/read/c/carrie-newcomer-lyrics/betty_s-diner-lyrics.html ]
And when she did his knees got weak
Miranda smiles at Em and winks

Ch: Here we are all in one place
The wants and wounds of the human race
Despair and hope sit face to face
When you come in from the cold
Let her fill your cup with something kind
Eggs and toast like bread and wine
She’s heard it all so she don’t mind

B: You never know who’ll be your witness
You never know who grants forgiveness
Look to heaven or sit with us

Diedra bites her lip and frowns
She works the Stop and Go downtown
She’s pretty good at the crossword page
She paints her eyes blue black
Tristan comes along sometimes
Small for his age and barely five
But she loves him like a mamma lion

Veda used to drink a lot
Almost lost it all before she stopped
Comes in at night with her friend Mike
Who runs the crisis line
Michael toured Saigon and back
Hair the color of smoke and ash
Heads are bowed and hands are clasped
One more storm has passed

Ch: Here we are all in one place
The wants and wounds of the human race
Despair and hope sit face to face
When you come in from the cold
Let her fill your cup with something kind
Eggs and toast like bread and wine
She’s heard it all so she don’t mind

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

March 28 Tip: Learn about RAINN

March 28 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace
On Denim Day Explore The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network

http://www.rainn.org/

The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network is the nation's largest anti-sexual violence organization. RAINN operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1.800.656.HOPE and the National Sexual Assault Online Hotline at rainn.org and publicizes the hotlines' free, confidential services; educates the public about sexual violence; and leads national efforts to prevent sexual violence, improve services to victims and ensure that rapists are brought to justice.

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

March 27 Tip: Understanding the Importance of Interdependent Relationships

March 27 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

Understanding the Importance of Interdependent Relationships

The Brain on Love

By DIANE ACKERMAN
Diane Ackerman
Diane Ackerman on the the natural world, the world of human endeavor and connections between the two.
A RELATIVELY new field, called interpersonal neurobiology, draws its vigor from one of the great discoveries of our era: that the brain is constantly rewiring itself based on daily life. In the end, what we pay the most attention to defines us. How you choose to spend the irreplaceable hours of your life literally transforms you.

All relationships change the brain — but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self.
Every great love affair begins with a scream. At birth, the brain starts blazing new neural pathways based on its odyssey in an alien world. An infant is steeped in bright, buzzing, bristling sensations, raw emotions and the curious feelings they unleash, weird objects, a flux of faces, shadowy images and dreams — but most of all a powerfully magnetic primary caregiver whose wizardry astounds.
Olimpia Zagnoli
Brain scans show synchrony between the brains of mother and child; but what they can’t show is the internal bond that belongs to neither alone, a fusion in which the self feels so permeable it doesn’t matter whose body is whose. Wordlessly, relying on the heart’s semaphores, the mother says all an infant needs to hear, communicating through eyes, face and voice. Thanks to advances in neuroimaging, we now have evidence that a baby’s first attachments imprint its brain. The patterns of a lifetime’s behaviors, thoughts, self-regard and choice of sweethearts all begin in this crucible.

We used to think this was the end of the story: first heredity, then the brain’s engraving mental maps in childhood, after which you’re pretty much stuck with the final blueprint.

But as a wealth of imaging studies highlight, the neural alchemy continues throughout life as we mature and forge friendships, dabble in affairs, succumb to romantic love, choose a soul mate. The body remembers how that oneness with Mother felt, and longs for its adult equivalent.

As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the brain, which in turn shapes our relationships. Daniel J. Siegel and Allan N. Schore, colleagues at the University of California, Los Angeles, recently discussed groundbreaking work in the field at a conference on the school’s campus. It’s not that caregiving changes genes; it influences how the genes express themselves as the child grows. Dr. Siegel, a neuropsychiatrist, refers to the indelible sense of “feeling felt” that we learn as infants and seek in romantic love, a reciprocity that remodels the brain’s architecture and functions.

Does it also promote physical well-being? “Scientific studies of longevity, medical and mental health, happiness and even wisdom,” Dr. Siegel says, “point to supportive relationships as the most robust predictor of these positive attributes in our lives across the life span.”

The supportive part is crucial. Loving relationships alter the brain the most significantly.
Just consider how much learning happens when you choose a mate. Along with thrilling dependency comes glimpsing the world through another’s eyes; forsaking some habits and adopting others (good or bad); tasting new ideas, rituals, foods or landscapes; a slew of added friends and family; a tapestry of physical intimacy and affection; and many other catalysts, including a tornadic blast of attraction and attachment hormones — all of which revamp the brain.

When two people become a couple, the brain extends its idea of self to include the other; instead of the slender pronoun “I,” a plural self emerges who can borrow some of the other’s assets and strengths. The brain knows who we are. The immune system knows who we’re not, and it stores pieces of invaders as memory aids. Through lovemaking, or when we pass along a flu or a cold sore, we trade bits of identity with loved ones, and in time we become a sort of chimera. We don’t just get under a mate’s skin, we absorb him or her.

Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful. As imaging studies by the U.C.L.A. neuroscientist Naomi Eisenberger show, the same areas of the brain that register physical pain are active when someone feels socially rejected. That’s why being spurned by a lover hurts all over the body, but in no place you can point to. Or rather, you’d need to point to the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex in the brain, the front of a collar wrapped around the corpus callosum, the bundle of nerve fibers zinging messages between the hemispheres that register both rejection and physical assault.

Whether they speak Armenian or Mandarin, people around the world use the same images of physical pain to describe a broken heart, which they perceive as crushing and crippling. It’s not just a metaphor for an emotional punch. Social pain can trigger the same sort of distress as a stomachache or a broken bone.
But a loving touch is enough to change everything. James Coan, a neuroscientist at the University of Virginia, conducted experiments in 2006 in which he gave an electric shock to the ankles of women in happy, committed relationships. Tests registered their anxiety before, and pain level during, the shocks.
Then they were shocked again, this time holding their loving partner’s hand. The same level of electricity produced a significantly lower neural response throughout the brain. In troubled relationships, this protective effect didn’t occur. If you’re in a healthy relationship, holding your partner’s hand is enough to subdue your blood pressure, ease your response to stress, improve your health and soften physical pain. We alter one another’s physiology and neural functions.

However, it’s not all sub rosa. One can decide to be a more attentive and compassionate partner, mindful of the other’s motives, hurts and longings. Breaking old habits isn’t easy, since habits are deeply ingrained neural shortcuts, a way of slurring over details without having to dwell on them. Couples often choose to rewire their brains on purpose, sometimes with a therapist’s help, to ease conflicts and strengthen their at-one-ness.

While they were both in the psychology department of Stony Brook University, Bianca Acevedo and Arthur Aron scanned the brains of long-married couples who described themselves as still “madly in love.” Staring at a picture of a spouse lit up their reward centers as expected; the same happened with those newly in love (and also with cocaine users). But, in contrast to new sweethearts and cocaine addicts, long-married couples displayed calm in sites associated with fear and anxiety. Also, in the opiate-rich sites linked to pleasure and pain relief, and those affiliated with maternal love, the home fires glowed brightly.
A happy marriage relieves stress and makes one feel as safe as an adored baby. Small wonder “Baby” is a favorite adult endearment. Not that romantic love is an exact copy of the infant bond. One needn’t consciously regard a lover as momlike to profit from the parallels. The body remembers, the brain recycles and restages.

So how does this play out beyond the lab? I saw the healing process up close after my 74-year-old husband, who is also a writer, suffered a left-hemisphere stroke that wiped out a lifetime of language. All he could utter was “mem.” Mourning the loss of our duet of decades, I began exploring new ways to communicate, through caring gestures, pantomime, facial expressions, humor, play, empathy and tons of affection — the brain’s epitome of a safe attachment. That, plus the admittedly eccentric home schooling I provided, and his diligent practice, helped rewire his brain to a startling degree, and in time we were able to talk again, he returned to writing books, and even his vision improved. The brain changes with experience throughout our lives; it’s in loving relationships of all sorts — partners, children, close friends — that brain and body really thrive.

During idylls of safety, when your brain knows you’re with someone you can trust, it needn’t waste precious resources coping with stressors or menace. Instead it may spend its lifeblood learning new things or fine-tuning the process of healing. Its doors of perception swing wide open. The flip side is that, given how vulnerable one then is, love lessons — sweet or villainous — can make a deep impression. Wedded hearts change everything, even the brain.

Monday, March 26, 2012

March 26 Tip: An Invitation to Nonviolence from Swami Sivanda

March 26 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

An invitation to nonviolence


If anyone speaks ill of you,
Praise them always.
If anyone injures you,
Serve them nicely.
If anyone persecutes you,
Help them in all possible ways.
You will attain
Immense strength.
You will control
Anger and pride.
You will enjoy
Peace, poise and serenity.
You will become divine.
--Swami Sivanda

Taken from a booklet of prayers for peace from different religious tradtions published by the Erie Benedictines:


Sunday, March 25, 2012

March 25 Tip: Savor the Sound of Sufi Musician Iqbal Bahu

March 25 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

Savor the Sound of the late, great Pakistani Sufi Musician, Iqbal Bahu.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NkQMLvyRkk&feature=youtube_gdata_player

This Pakistani musical master visited Louisville several years ago and performed a concert at Unity of Louisville (a Pakistani Sufi, performing in a church that once was a synagogue!).

Iqbal Bahu died recently. May his soul rest in peace...

Saturday, March 24, 2012

March 24 Tip: Embrace Radical Forgiveness

March 24 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

Hear Colin Tipping on "The Essence of Radical Forgiveness"

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What do we need to happen for forgiveness to occur? Does there need to be an apology, a show of genuine remorse, or an attempt to redress the wrongs of the past? These are all elements of what Colin Tipping calls traditional forgiveness, which can often seem very hard to achieve. Radical Forgiveness, as Tipping teaches it, takes a completely different approach—and can create tremendous breakthroughs when traditional forgiveness seems impossible. In this audio clip, he talks about the fundamental shift of perspective that makes Radical Forgiveness possible and allows us to experience sudden and liberating healing.

http://www.soundstrue.com/weeklywisdom/?source=podcast&p=6061&category=AGM&version=full

Friday, March 23, 2012

March 23 Tip: Embrace Ahimsa: Active Non-Violence

March 23 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace:

Embrace the concept of "Ahimsa", compassion through active, creative non-violence
 
The Hindu concept of Ahimsa reminds us that non-violence is more that simply the absence of violent action. Ahimsa literally means “absence of the desire to kill or harm” any creature. It calls us to realize that we must learn to be non-violent in the words we use and in the ways we deal with each other at work, school and home. We must also learn to take creative action to remove those things that lead to violence: injustice, poverty, hunger, and repression. Ahimsa includes an attitude of creative non-violence toward all creation, not just humans but also our animal companions and the entire environment. Creative non-violence can take the form of non-violent direct action (in the way that Gandhi and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. acted) but also involvement in politics, volunteer efforts with relief agencies, education and more.
For additional information about Ahimsa visit: himalayanacademy.com

Thursday, March 22, 2012

March 22 Tip: Tonight: Hear Karen Armstrong on "State of the Charter for Compassion"

March 22 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

Tonight: Hear Karen Armstrong on "State of the Charter for Compassion"

Dear Friends,

On March 22, Karen Armstrong will deliver a "State of the Charter for Compassion" update, live from Vancouver.  She will also reveal our new website, which we've designed as a global storytelling platform to showcase inspiring examples of compassion-in-action, from Lahore to Louisville.  

The event will be streamed live from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time, at www.charterforcompassion.org and www.Facebook.com/CharterforCompassion.

To help us kick off this exciting next phase of the Charter's growth and development, we'd greatly appreciate your support.   

STEP ONE: Spread the News

Please send the following message to your Twitter, Facebook and Google+ communities: "Join Karen Armstrong live, March 22 for a 'State of the Charter' update. www.charterforcompassion.org @TheCharter #12DaysCompassion"

And share the event details below with your email lists:  

Date:                     March 222012
Location:               Live webcast on Charter for Compassion website and Facebook page
Time:                     7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time (PDT)
7:00 p.m.               Event starts
7:05 p.m.               Launch of the Greater Vancouver Compassion Network (GVCN),
                                             presented by Alisdair Smith, GVCN Chair 
7:15 p.m.               Karen Armstrong: "What is Religion?" (45 Minutes)
8:00 p.m.               Karen Armstrong: "State of the Charter for Compassion" (20 minutes)
8:20 p.m.               Q & A with Karen Armstrong

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

March 21 Tip: Sign up for Mayor Fischer's Give a Day Program

March 21 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

Sign up for Mayor Fischer's Week of Service April 15-22

http://www.mygiveaday.com/

"Give a Day" Program

To the individual men, women and children served by the many
non-profit organizations that need your help, you'll make all the difference in the world... and make Louisville a better and more compassionate place to live in the process.

Maybe it's painting a room. Or collecting shoes and clothing. It might simply be serving warm meals and sweeping the kitchen.

Whether you give an hour, day or a week – the rewards are bigger than you can possibly imagine.

Monday, March 19, 2012

March 20th Tip: Read "Forget" by poet Czeslaw Milosz

March 20 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace


Ponder this poem by Czeslaw Milosz

Forget
By Czeslaw Milosz
(1911 - 2004)
English version by Robert Hass

Forget the suffering
You caused others.
Forget the suffering
Others caused you.
The waters run and run,
Springs sparkle and are done,
You walk the earth you are forgetting.

Sometimes you hear a distant refrain.
What does it mean, you ask, who is singing?
A childlike sun grows warm.
A grandson and a great-grandson are born.
You are led by the hand once again.

The names of the rivers remain with you.
How endless those rivers seem!
Your fields lie fallow,
The city towers are not as they were.

http://www.Poetry-Chaikhana.com/
 

March 19 Tip: Discuss "12 Steps to a Compassionate Life"

March 19 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

Tonight at 6 pm Discuss Karen Armstrong's book, "Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life" atthe Heine Bros. Coffee Shop on Chenoweth (the book is available at Carmichaels Booksellers)

Join Howard Mason and his Social Change Book Club 6.0 and discuss the book that led to Compassionate Louisville.


Louisville has recently dedicated itself to becoming the Compassionate Heart of America so that successive generations inherit a better world. This initiative based on the Karen Armstrong's "Charter for Compassion" and our March book, Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life, an impassioned and practical book that can help us make the world a more compassionate place.

Sunday, March 18, 2012

March 18 Tip: Explore the ideas of St. John of the Cross

March 18 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

Explore the ideas of St. John of the Cross: Who we thought we were must perish, so that who we really are may rise up, radiant and pure.

http://www.soundstrue.com/weeklywisdom/?source=podcast&p=6032&category=WW&version=full

Saturday, March 17, 2012

March 17 Tip: check out Council on Developmental Disabilities

March 17 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

Check out the powerful work of the Louisville Council on Developmental Disabilities

http://www.councilondd.org/

Friday, March 16, 2012

March 16 Tip: Explore New Doc about Bullying

March 16: Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

Explore New Film that Takes An Intimate Look At School Bullying

http://www.npr.org/2012/03/13/148540633/new-film-takes-an-intimate-look-at-school-bullying?sc=17&f=1008

The documentary Bully follows several middle- and high-school students who are different, awkward or for some other reason the targets of bullying. One of the kids at the center of the film is Alex, from Sioux City, Iowa.

In the film, Alex, a small boy, says people think he's not normal, and most kids don't want to be around him. And some kids at his school, or on the school bus especially, make his life miserable.
Director Lee Hirsch says Alex immediately struck him as someone who was having a hard time — and no one seemed to notice or really care.

"He's a remarkable kid," Hirsch tells NPR's Robert Siegel. "We met Alex on orientation day for his seventh-grade year; he was off sitting by himself, and the world just sort of passed him by as if he did not exist. One of the things that we were thinking about was this idea that some would say that a school doesn't have bullying — or 'I don't see it.' We were sort of thinking that, actually, if you're looking for it, it's very easy to see."

In the course of shooting the movie, Hirsch not only documented Alex's complaints, but also filmed actual incidents in which Alex was hit and verbally abused on the school bus. Hirsch says he was surprised that the bullies seemed undeterred by the presence of a camera — but he also can understand it on a couple of levels.

"That particular world, that world of Alex's school," Hirsch says, "was a world where kids had become quite used to being able to bully Alex. I think the sense of consequence was very low."
Hirsch adds that the small scale of his production may have helped him capture real moments between kids.
"In our case it was just me alone and a very small camera that looks like a still camera," Hirsch says, "and I think that that sort of low profile also really helped."

Thursday, March 15, 2012

March 15 Compassionate Living Tip: Wear Black Today

March 15 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace:

Take Part in Thursdays in Black today!
http://www.nzgirl.co.nz/know/3709/

AND

Learn about the Center for Women and Families at today's Third Thursday Lunch

Please join us for the IPP/FOR Third Thursday lunch at 11:30 am on TODAY, Thursday, March 15 at the Rudyard Kipling, 422 West Oak Street.


Lunch is $6. 

This month's speaker is 

Marta M. Miranda, President and CEO of the Center for Women and Families

She will be speaking on: 

"Personal and Collective Responsibility for Each Other's Safety"


Domestic violence and sexual assault are at epidemic proportions.  In observance of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Marta Miranda will discuss the Center's "Green Dot" violence prevention program and the importance of a community-wide response, including bystander prevention programs, to increase public knowledge about risk factors and how to intervene in order to prevent acts of violence before they actually occur.  

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

March 14 Tip: Learn about KY Refugee Ministries

March 14 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

Learn about the Services of Kentucky Refugee Ministries (KRM)

http://kyrm.org/whoweserve.html

KRM has a staff of 55 full and part-time people who provide comprehensive services, in partnership with faith-based organization co-sponsorship, to refugees.  KRM’s staff speaks English, Spanish, Bosnian, Arabic, French, Bhutanese, Dinka and Sudanese Arabic and we employ contract translators to work with refugees who speak other languages.  KRM also works with volunteers from service and educational institutions in Louisville who provide hours of valuable assistance to KRM programs.  Services begin with meeting arriving refugees at the airport and may continue through citizenship.  Some of the services provided include:
·         Basic needs – housing, furnishings, food, clothing, transportation·         Case management – coordinating services with medical and community service providers for each client ·         Youth services – academic tutoring, advanced educational assistance, mentoring, art therapy, employment·         Elderly services – case management, acculturation·         Immigration – green cards, travel documents, family reunion, citizenship·         Employment services for adults – employment assessment, workplace orientation, job placement, translation, and follow-up·         English language training, citizenship and cultural orientation classes

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

March 13 Tip: Embrace "Tikkun Olam," Repairing the World

March 13 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace:

Embrace the concept of Tikkun Olam, “repairing the world”

For progressive Jews, a popular way of framing the need for compassionate action is to speak of Tikkun Olam, or “repairing the world.  This concept is often associated with a 16th Century Jewish mystic named Isaac Luria. Luria wrote that at the beginning of time, G!d contracted part of itself into vessels of light in order to create the world. Because G!d’s majesty is so great, the vessels shattered and their shards were scattered throughout the universe. According to Luria and other mystics, we can repair this broken world by performing acts of mercy and kindness (mitzvot). According to the tradition of Tikkun Olam, no one person or generation can complete the task of repairing the world, but all of us  are required to be some part of the repairing process if we are obedient to the will of G!d.
For additional information about Tikkun Olam visit: www.myjewishlearning.com
 

Monday, March 12, 2012

March 12 Compassionate Living Tip: Explore "Peace Education Program"

March 12 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

Explore Louisville's Peace Education Program--helping young people learn to solve their conflicts peacefully:

http://www.peaceeducationprogram.org/

Saturday, March 10, 2012

March 11 Compassionate Living Tip Quote from de Chardin


March 11 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

Quote from de Chardin

"Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. "
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

March 10 tip: Explore Buddhist Peace Fellowship

March 10 Compassionate Living Tip: Explore the Buddhist Peace Fellowship

http://www.bpf.org/

Friday, March 9, 2012

March 9 Tip: Read the new book, "Gandhi and the Unspeakable"

March 9 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

Read Jim Douglass's brand new book, Gandhi and the Unspeakable

Here's a link to more information about the book:
http://www.maryknollsocietymall.org/description.cfm?ISBN=978-1-57075-963-5

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

March 7 Tip: See the Academy Award Winning film, "A Separation"

March 7 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

See the Academy Award winning Iranian film, "A Separation" (now playing at Louisville's Baxter Theaters)

Here's a link to a review of the film:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/jun/30/a-separation-review


March 8 Tip: Read "The Peace Book" by Louise Diamond

March 8 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

Read

The Peace Book
by Louise Diamond

108 Simple Ways to Make a More Peaceful World
“If you want more peace in your life;
If you want more peace in the world;
If you want a society based on a culture of peace
instead of the prevailing culture of violence;
this book is dedicated to you
as a call to action.”

Here's a link to more info about the book:


 

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

March 6 Tip: Check out Dare to Care Food Bank

March 6 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

Check out Dare to Care Food Bank

One family in six in Louisville and Southern Indiana needs food assistance; sadder still, one child in four needs food help.

Dare to Care serves them all. And you can help.

visit:
http://daretocare.org/


Monday, March 5, 2012

March 5 Tip: Learn about APPKI philanthropic group

March 5 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

Explore APPKI (The Association of Physicians of Pakistani Descent of Kentucky and Indiana). This wonderful organization is the Louisville area's premiere philanthropic group in supporting humanitarian relief efforts locally, at the national level and internationally. APPKI also is deeply supportive of efforts to improve inter-religious understanding.

Here's a link to learn more about APPKI:

http://www.appki.org/

Sunday, March 4, 2012

March 4 Tip: readt the book "Ornament of the world

March 4 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

Read the book "Ornament of the World" about the Spanish city of Cordoba during Islamic leadership 750-1492. as a model of intrefaith tolerance:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/292846.The_Ornament_of_the_World

Is Louisvilee becoming the Geneva of North America...or the Cordoba of North America? Or both!


Friday, March 2, 2012

March 2 Tip Check out the Interfaith Compassion Page

March 2 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

Check out the interfaith compassion web page at
http://paths2peace.org/Compassion.html
To find information and tools to help you live a more compassionate life.