Standing at the edge, finding freedom where fear and courage meet, Joan Halifax ; [foreword by Rebecca Solnit]
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Standing at the edge, finding freedom where fear and courage meet, Joan Halifax ; [foreword by Rebecca Solnit]
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Standing at the edge
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Joan Halifax ; [foreword by Rebecca Solnit]
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finding freedom where fear and courage meet
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Joan Halifax has enriched thousands of lives around the world through her work as a humanitarian, a social activist, an anthropologist, and as a Buddhist teacher. Over many decades, she has also collaborated with neuroscientists, clinicians, and psychologists to understand how contemplative practice can be a vehicle for social transformation. Through her unusual background, she developed an understanding of how our greatest challenges can become the most valuable source of our wisdom-and how we can transform our experience of suffering into the power of compassion for the benefit of others. Halifax has identified five psychological territories she calls Edge States-altruism, empathy, integrity, respect, and engagement-that epitomize strength of character. Yet each of these states can also be the cause of personal and social suffering. In this way, these five psychological experiences form edges, and it is only when we stand at these edges that we become open to the full range of our human experience and discover who we really are
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