“Love and compassion are necessities. Not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.” – His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
It is with humble and full-hearted pleasure that A Network for Grateful Living has joined thousands of organizations working towards a more peaceful, sustainable, and compassionate world, as partners of Charter for Compassion. In joining this “network of networks,” we express and fulfill our commitment to bringing “an awareness of compassion and compassionate action to everything we do as we interact with other people and with our environment.”
As we witness or directly experience the effects of war, mass migrations, racial tensions, political polarization, and the impact (both current and anticipated) of climate change, we, as a global family, are called upon to more fully and boldly embody our convictions that “a compassionate world is a peaceful world;” not as a feel-good exercise, but as a “necessity.”
In signing the Charter for Compassion we join over 2 million people around the globe in asserting that:
“We believe that a compassionate world is possible when every man, woman and child treats others as they wish to be treated–with dignity, equity and respect. We believe that all human beings are born with the capacity for compassion, and that it must be cultivated for human beings to survive and thrive.”
Please watch this powerful and moving video of the full Charter for Compassion:
Please join us in signing the Charter for Compassion here. Or sign up as an organizational partner of The Charter.
We encourage you to explore the Charter for Compassion’s website which is filled with excellent, practical, actionable, and inspiring resources.
With much political rhetoric about different visions for our world being bantered about these days, we invite you to join us in doing everything we can to ensure that the luminous, dynamic force of compassion is held as a centerpiece in our polarized world.
Embrace a compassion revolution!
We invite you to watch the inspiring video above and share your reflections below…