Websites and Services

Check out the following excellent resources on compassion and related virtues in action. You're welcome to tell us about your own website or service by choosing 'Add Comment' at the bottom of the page. (Please include a brief description too.)

• The Wisdom Commons www.wisdomcommons.org - LAUNCHED ON INTERSPIRITUAL DAY, APRIL 15. Built especially for Seeds of Compassion, the Wisdom Commons is an interactive website that seeks to elevate our shared moral core, sometimes called universal ethics. It is a place to find and discuss information about compassion and related virtues that human beings generally agree are important, virtues like generosity or courage. As a user or member, you can search or input quotes, proverbs, poetry/meditations, stories, and essays from many traditions. As we add features over the coming months, members will also be able to join a deeper dialogue about what we have in common and about the specific virtues featured on the site. You will be able to create a personal wisdom page or a gift book that includes quotes and stories you find powerful. These "products" will make it easier to share some of your most deeply held values with others.
• Compassion and the Individual www.dalailama.com/page.166.htm - The website of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama offers a window into the moral and spiritual priorities to which he has devoted his life work. A brief, candid glimpse into these priorities can be seen by clicking on Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ). The Dalai Lama provided the answers.
• Compassionate Listening Project www.compassionatelistening.org - We teach heart-based skills for peace building and reconciliation in our families, communities, on the job, and in the world...speaking and listening from the heart, even in the heat of conflict. We offer training and a facilitator certification program, and would be happy to tailor a talk, training, or group facilitation to fit your needs. The Compassionate Listening Project teaches powerful skills for peacemaking in our families, communities, on the job, and in social change work locally and globally. Our curriculum for Compassionate Listening grew out of our many years of reconciliation work on the ground in Israel and Palestine. We adapted our training and began to teach in the U.S. in 1999. We now offer training and workshops worldwide for everyday peace building, as well as an Advanced Training and Facilitator Certification program. We are a non-profit organization based near Seattle, Washington.
• The Virtues Project www.virtuesproject.com -  The Vision of The Virtues Project is to serve humanity by supporting the moral and spiritual development of people of all cultures, by helping them to remember who they really are and to live by their highest values. The Mission of The Virtues Project is to provide empowering strategies that inspire the practice of virtues in everyday life through programs of excellence and simplicity which support people of all ages to cultivate their virtues—the gifts of character. A variety of programs are available which focus on the Five Strategies of The Virtues Project in personal, professional and community development. Examples are: Personal Growth and Healing Retreats, Parenting Life-skills Courses, Character Education Initiatives, Positive Cultural Change, Violence Prevention and Intervention, Transformation of Bully Behaviour, Community Building, Leadership Development, and Facilitator Training.
• Learning to Give www.learningtogive.com - Learning to Give educates youth about the importance of philanthropy, the civil-society sector, and civic engagement. The Learning to Give website offers over 1,200 K-12 lessons and educational resources for teachers, parents, youth workers, faith groups, and community leaders free of charge. Learning to Give is the curriculum division of the League, a school and web-based system for service learning that builds character and empowers young people to "do good" in their communities, the nation, and the world.

Building Bridges

• The Pluralism Project www.pluralism.org - Through an expanding network of affiliates, we document the contours of our multi-religious society, explore new forms of interfaith engagement, and study the impact of religious diversity in civic life. Housed at Harvard University.
• World Prayers www.worldprayers.org - The objective of this website is to gather the great prayers written by the spiritual visionaries of our planet into an online database representing all life affirming traditions. Many of these prayers have been used for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. Others are from spiritual contemporaries in today's intricate global fabric. Though these sacred verses arise from divergent paths, voices, languages, cultures, and heritages, they all carry within them the same burning flame—the same impassioned love for life and the divine mysteries.
• Interspiritual Dialogue 'n Action www.isdna.org/about.php - ISDnA is an informal network open to all persons and groups with interest in interspiritual community, dialogue and activism. At its heart, ISDnA seeks to illuminate Brother Wayne Teasdale’s vision that there is a shared experience common to all Awakened Consciousness, be it religious or secular. At the core of this experience, which is Oneness, the invigorated heart fosters a life of unconditional service and an honoring of all experience as it has been passed down by myriad religious, philosophical, and ethical traditions.
• Ontario Center for Religious Tolerance www.religioustolerance.org - We seek to provide a source for accurate, balanced, clear, objective, and inclusive articles about religion, morality, and ethics. We often tackle tough religious questions. We don't promote a specific religious viewpoint and we don't attack anyone's theological beliefs. We don't value religious beliefs over secularism or vice-versa.