A New Republic of the Heart

A New Republic of the Heart with Terry Patten

In the midst of today’s global crises, many of us are disheartened. We recognize the need for radical change, both in ourselves and in our social and political institutions, but we don’t how to enact it. Terry Patten provides a practical approach to “being the change” that begins with the individual and yet can affect the whole system, as inner and outer transformation are entirely interdependent. Wholeness has potent agency. In our age of fragmentation, the most subversive things we can do are to embody love, integrity, and practice.

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Terry Patten speaks and consults internationally as a community organizer, philosopher, and teacher. Over the last fifteen years he has devoted his efforts to the integral project of evolving consciousness through practice, and facing, examining, and healing our global crisis through the marriage of spirit and activism. He is the author, most recently, of A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries.

 

Love Thy Neighbor

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“Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” ~ Judaism

“A new commandment I give to you. That you love one another; even as I have loved you… By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
~ Christianity

“A man obtains a proper rule of action by looking on his neighbor as himself.” ~ Hinduism

“Full of love for all things in the world, practicing virtue in order to benefit others, this man alone is happy.” ~ Buddhism

“Seek to be in harmony with all your neighbors, live in amity with your brethren.”
~ Confucianism

“No one is a believer until he loves for his neighbor, and for his brother, what he loves for himself.” ~ Islam