In Field Notes on the Compassionate Life: A Search for the Soul of Kindness, author Marc Ian Barasch reflects on compassion: its meaning, its purpose, and how it unfolds in ordinary lives.

CSEE asked to help market this book because Barasch's message is precisely what CSEE's mission aims for: deep understanding, warm acceptance, a spirituality of compassion. We agree with Archbishop Tutu: "This book ought to be compulsory reading for all."

Other comments:
"If I had to pick one skill that was most important for everyone, every day, it would be the ability to put yourself in the other side's shoes. In this extraordinary book, Marc Barasch helps us understand why, and how." William Ury, Ph.D., coauthor, Getting to Yes.

"This book is good medicine for our time." Andrew Weil, M.D., author, Spontaneous Healing.

"Describing how compassion unfolds in ordinary lives and transforms them is Barasch's great gift." Larry Dossey, M.D., author, Healing Words