Unconditional Love? Altruism? Can You Learn it?

February 25, 2008 12:10 PM

How to Cultivate Altruism and Love the Hard to Love?

I'm looking for biographies of people who went from being entangled in their ego to undergoing a spiritual awakening, seeking the light, so to speak and with a new awareness cultivating altruism and unconditional love for who some would deem as being the very hard to love. Mother Theresa comes to mind, as well as Peace Pilgrim and Byron Katie. I'm seeking out less-known stories of ordinary people who turned their lives around 180 and reached a state of higher consciousness and wisdom and used their experience in forgiveness and loving the hard to love. Sites, books, movies - all greatly appreciated.

posted by watercarrier to Human Relations (5 answers total)

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Read up about Lama Surya Das?
posted by canine epigram at 1:16 PM on February 25, 2008

The Apostle Paul?
posted by DWRoelands at 1:23 PM on February 25, 2008

I'm interested in the same subject. A few books I've found interesting/helpful (though not necessarily biographies) are:

• "A New Earth" by Eckhart Tolle
• "Conversations With God - Volume 1" - can't remember his name
• "Way of the Peaceful Warrior" - again, no name..

Interested to see what other people are reading..
posted by Glendale at 1:46 PM on February 25, 2008

Dorothy Day. Here is some of her writing.
posted by MasonDixon at 1:55 PM on February 25, 2008

"Way of the Peaceful Warrior" - again, no name..

It's written by Dan Millman
posted by The Light Fantastic at 4:47 PM on February 25, 2008