Insights: Ideas for Change - Karen Armstrong: Charter for Compassion
Channel: World Economic Forum
Date: 2012-08-16

http://www.weforum.org/

"Never treat others as you would not like to be treated yourself." 

Karen Armstrong describes this as the golden rule of spirituality that should be guiding us through life. Religious organizations should be driving the implementation of this rule, but instead are often seen as part of the problem. 

Armstrong has been instrumental in crafting and implementing a Charter for Compassion to bring compassion onto the agenda, including a network of compassionate cities. Unless we learn to implement the golden rule and become activists in compassion to counter the activists in hatred, Armstrong says, we are not going to have a viable world for the next generation.