Wellness and Healthcare

What spiritual presence or practice do you bring to the communities you belong to and why? Fetzer gathered people from various traditions to talk about how they nurture the spiritual dimension while in community.

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Is there a hurt or thought you keep replaying that you’d like to release? Use this interactive Letting Go Practice to help let go of a hurt, injury, or issue in your life. Like forgiveness, it may be something you’ll want to revisit again and again. Take a few minutes to try it and let us know what you think.

Incorporate more love, forgiveness, and compassion into your daily life with these conversation starters. 52 cards with quotations, questions to discuss, and actions to take. Designed for you to use on your own or with others at home, school, work, and elsewhere. Also available in Spanish: Tarjetas de Conversación.

Print (on both sides) and cut your own set. Created for use with 8.5 x 11 inch paper.

Hurry: A poem from the Afghan Women's Writing Project

This facilitator and participant guide is designed to help you explore the power of compassion in your own and others' lives by providing tools for facilitating conversations about compassion in your community, organization, business, or school.

This resource is one of many developed in support of community-wide conversations and activities focused on love, forgiveness, and compassion--all a part of the Institute's Campaign for Love & Forgiveness.

Contemporary culture puts a premium on revenge. Retaliation is portrayed as a mark of strength, a sign of equality, and a way to exact our due. Yet the truth is just the opposite. Only the brave can forgive from the heart. —Dolores Wood

Everyone alive has suffered. It is the wisdom gained from our wounds and from our own experiences of suffering that makes us able to heal. Becoming expert has turned out to be less important than remembering and trusting the wholeness in myself and everyone else. Expertise cures, but wounded people can best be healed by other wounded people. Only other wounded people can understand what is needed, for the healing of suffering is compassion, not expertise. —Rachel Naomi Remen

If only we can overcome cruelty, to human and animal, with love and compassion we shall stand at the threshold of a new era in human moral and spiritual evolution—and realize, at last, our most unique quality: humanity. —Jane Goodall

Overcoming cruelty means living our lives consciously, aware of how our behaviors impact other sentient beings around the globe. The choices we make each day—how we interact with people and animals, what we consume, whether we make time to connect with ourselves and others—have far-reaching impact.