Karuna News: How To Measure Compassion?
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Nov 25, 2020

 



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Some things are easy to measure. The weight of a standard adult basketball is 20-22 ounces. The height of the Eiffel Tower in Paris is 324 meters (1,063 feet). The Great Wall of China is about 21,196 kilometers (13,171 miles) long. In March 2020, the world's human population is estimated to have crossed 7.8 billion people. Yet for all the straightforward metrics in the world, there are many things that can't be quantified. Friendship, kindness, goodwill, and love -- how do we account for these vital qualities in our lives, society, and systems at large? When the effect of compassion is distributed across time and space, how do we pinpoint its value and role in the greater rhythms of which we are a part? With those questions in mind, this week's stories offer a window into the speed, the sound, the weight, the size, and the "price" of love.

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Posted by KarunaVirus on Nov 25, 2020