| How can compassion, a trait hardwired into our nervoussystem and waiting to be awakened, transform our livesand the world at large? Marc Barasch provides up-to-the-minute research to timeless spiritual truths, and weavesa stirring, unforgettable story of the search forkindness in a world that clearly needs it. With unfailingcuriosity, Barasch poses vital questions: What can welearn from exceptionally empathetic people? Can weincrease our compassion quotient with practice? What ifthe great driving force of our evolution were actually"survival of the kindest?" He comes up with challenging,ultimately inspiring answers. With encounters as diverseas observations of compassion amongst bonobo chimpanzees,to the story of a man who forgives his daughters killer,to teenage Palestinian and Israeli girls trying to wagepeace, Barasch blends hard science and popular culturewith his own hip, engaging narrative style to create asmart, provocative argument that a simple shift inconsciousness changes pretty much everything. |
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