Compassion
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Day 97 – Lady with the Lamp
Nightingale spent her long life advancing nursing and caregiving. Although she was plagued for the last half of her life with chronic fatigue syndrome, the lady with the lamp championed nursing from Europe to America. Continue reading
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Day 84 – Compassion for Shadowed Lives
The vast majority of us strive to save our lives and those of others, not to take them. As we find our own sunlight, may we not forget to love those who may be living in shadows. Continue reading
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Day 75 – The Charter for Compassion
Compassionate living requires that senior executives and middle managers cede power and arrogance and yield to humility and loving service. Continue reading
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Day 40 – Replacing Pity With Compassion
More than two hundred years ago, the Scottish poet Robert Burns challenged us to see ourselves as others see us. Continue reading
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Day 363/4 – The Stages of Our Truth
So long as genuine Love is present, none of the concerns about her appearance are valid. Meanwhile, the forces of power, control, and narrow thinking will continue to block Love’s light from shining into most of Americas hospitals and charities. Continue reading
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Day 227 – Being With
Compassionate care, presence, and healing all emerge from our willingness to be with our own heart and mind. We cannot give what we do not have. Being with others in ways that meet need with Love demands we first know… Continue reading
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Day 121 – Being Teachers of Love
If you are sincerely interested in learning the practices of loving care, start the daily or weekly practice of designing your own way of teaching using the Journal as your guide. This needs to be fun for you so create… Continue reading
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Day 42 – Why Change is Necessary & Painful
When we fix our eyes on Love and understand the importance of Love as a purposeful goal, the pain of change becomes no more than a side effect. Continue reading
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Hidden Compassion
As we feel the gifts in our own lives, grace arrives. And grace is contagious. Continue reading
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Quotes – Erie Chapman
On Love: Live love, not fear. This is the center of all I believe in. If I fill my cup with Love, there is no room for anything else. Continue reading
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