Making Waves and Riding the Currents: Activism and the Practice of Wisdom
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (546 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B005X0OL1Q |
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| Number of Pages | : | 122 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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With each purposeful transition, he became a better and more interesting man. In this fascinating memoir of his life and work for social justice and environmental sustainability, Charlie Halpern shares with us his path of learning to integrate mind and heart in pursuit of wisdom. His experience as a lawyer and social entrepreneur combined with the study and practice of mindfulness and Buddhist philosophy leads him to the conclusion that cultivation of wisdom and compassion makes for more effective activism. This most creative of public citizens--lawyer, educator, philanthropist, catalyst of ideas and institutions--has put into practice what he writes in these pages. He became wiser, wise enough to be able to point the rest of us in some of the right directions." --Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future. This book is hi
T. W. Arnold said Grace in Action: One Lawyer's Choice. Mr. Halpern reminds us that we have a choice, in each and every waking moment -- and then the next, to embrace values that transcend our individual concerns. For lawyers his is a momentous work because if not a blue print 'how to' accomplish this deep. "Action Guided by Wisdom" according to Copthorne Macdonald. From the beginning of this tale of Charles Halpern's remarkable accomplishments, it was obvious that he was an intelligent, effective individual with many skills. But competent doesn't necessarily mean wise. Fortunately for us readers, interwoven with. Read this and Make your own Waves! Making Waves and Riding Currents is a book that everyone should read. No soft tale here but a journey not unlike rafting white waters. Charles sees the real and the ideal, the what "could be and is not yet", takes time to grasp the whole, sees the way
. Charles Halpern is an innovative social entrepreneur who has led the way in bringing inner work and the cultivation of wisdom into the world of social activism. With his extensive record of institutional creativity and achievement, supported by twenty years of meditation, Halpern is the ideal person to write about the intersecting arcs of effective work in the wor
Later, as president of the $400 million Nathan Cummings Foundation, he launched an innovative grant program that drew together social justice advocacy with meditation and spiritual inquiry.In his years of activism, he had a growing intuition that something was missing, and he sought ways of developing inner resources that complemented his cognitive and adversarial skills. As founding dean of the new City University of New York School of Law he initiated a bold program for training public interest lawyers as whole people. This book is about working for a more just, compassionate, and sustainable world while cultivating the wisdom that supports and deepens this work.Charles Halpern is a social entrepreneur with a remarkable record of institutional innovation. It is a real-world guide to effectively achieving social and institutional change while maintaining balance, compassion, and hope.. Making Waves and Riding the Currents vividly demonstrates the life-enhancing benefits of integrating a commitment to social justice with the cultivation of wisdom. He founded the Center for Law and Social Policy, the nation’s first public interest law firm, litigating la