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The Compassionate Rebel: Energized by Anger, Motivated by Love
The Compassionate Rebel illuminates a hidden culture where compassion and rebellion are combined in revolutionary ways. This timely book presents the insightful, hope-filled discovery that anger and love, typically thought of as opposites, can, together, provide a powerful force for positive change in the world. The 50 true, inspirational stories about overcoming injustice, abuse and despair will surprise, shake, and stimulate readers to find their own personal power as compassionate rebels. The book, with its impressive photos and coffee table format, challenges humans to evolve, beyond connecting anger with shame or rage, to connecting it with compassion.
Featured individuals each found ways to be apeacemaker as a response to very personal, vexing experiences and conditions.We were one of 26 organizations worldwide to receive a LifeBridge Grant andwere a finalist for the Nautilus Award at Book Expo America, recognizingauthors that contribute to positive social change, spiritual growth, conscious livingand responsible leadership as well as to the worlds of art, creativity andinspirational reading for children, teens and young adults.
Featured individuals each found ways to be apeacemaker as a response to very personal, vexing experiences and conditions.We were one of 26 organizations worldwide to receive a LifeBridge Grant andwere a finalist for the Nautilus Award at Book Expo America, recognizingauthors that contribute to positive social change, spiritual growth, conscious livingand responsible leadership as well as to the worlds of art, creativity andinspirational reading for children, teens and young adults.
228 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 2002
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August 22, 2011
This is a collection of interviews of ordinary people who often have been hurt personally and have found a way to rise above their upbringing to use their anger to do their part to correct the hurt of other people around them or animals or the earth. Some of the other activists motivation comes from parents who also fought the good fight to change the ills of the world they saw around them.
One comes away from reading this book realizing anyone can say no more and stand up and work for change, these are not stories of a select few heroes, they are stories of those who have had enough and aren't going to take it anymore.
I loved the "Fable on Peace" at the end.
"Tell me the weight of a snowflake," a coal mouse asked a wild dove.
"Nothing more than nothing," was the answer.
"In that case, I must tell you a marvelous story," the coal mouse said. "I sat on the branch of a fir close to its trunk, when it began to snow......Since I didn't have anything better to do, I counted the snowflakes settling on the twigs and needles of my branch. Their number was exactly, 3,741,952.
"When the next snowflake dropped onto the branch----nothing more than nothing, as you say---- the branch broke off..."
The dove, since Noah's time, an authority on the matter, thought about the story for a while and finally said to herself, "Perhaps there is only one person's voice lacking for peace to come about in the world."
One comes away from reading this book realizing anyone can say no more and stand up and work for change, these are not stories of a select few heroes, they are stories of those who have had enough and aren't going to take it anymore.
I loved the "Fable on Peace" at the end.
"Tell me the weight of a snowflake," a coal mouse asked a wild dove.
"Nothing more than nothing," was the answer.
"In that case, I must tell you a marvelous story," the coal mouse said. "I sat on the branch of a fir close to its trunk, when it began to snow......Since I didn't have anything better to do, I counted the snowflakes settling on the twigs and needles of my branch. Their number was exactly, 3,741,952.
"When the next snowflake dropped onto the branch----nothing more than nothing, as you say---- the branch broke off..."
The dove, since Noah's time, an authority on the matter, thought about the story for a while and finally said to herself, "Perhaps there is only one person's voice lacking for peace to come about in the world."
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