Featuring more than forty first-person stories by Thich Nhat Hanh, John F. Kennedy, Jr. Lama Surya Das, Marianne Dresser, Sogyal Rinpoche, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and many others, The Power of Compassion shows how intentional acts of kindness can have unintended, extraordinary, and far-reaching consequences.

Pamela Bloom has been a practitioner of Buddhist meditation, with a special interest in spiritual healing, for more than twenty-five years. She is a journalist, music critic, and travel writer. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, as well as High Fidelity, Musician, Downbeat, Parabola, Spirituality & Health, Connoisseur, and Elle magazines, among others. She has produced a companion CD to The Power of Compassion entitled 'Buddha Heart: Chants for Love, Healing, and Enlightenment' (available on Amazon). A study guide for the Power of Compassion, entitled "Empowering the Power of Compassion', is presently being prepared for students and teachers.

	Contents: The Power of Compassion. Stories that Open the Heart, Heal the Soul, and Change the World
	Foreword by Joan Halifax Roshi	1
	Introduction: Fresh Starts	5
	Every Breath We Take	9
	The Stories	25
	Directing the Mind, Defrosting the Heart: Meditations for Developing Compassion	187
	Glossary	201
	Acknowledgments	209
	Contributors	217