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My 2024 ACTION Report: Words and deeds of care and gratitude for people and planet
2024 has been a year of a stressful hurricane and election, sincere actions of service and care, and feelings of grief, happiness, and...

Robertson Work
Dec 20, 20241 min read
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2024 Holiday Gift Giving
Please consider giving an inspiring holiday gift to your family members and friends of my book A Compassionate Civilization. Available...

Robertson Work
Dec 20, 20241 min read
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Enjoy Reading, Viewing, and Hearing 2023 Outputs of Compassionate Civilization Collaborative (C3)
C3 is an informal, expanding network of individuals and organizations promoting climate chaos and ecocide mitigation and adaptation,...

Robertson Work
Dec 11, 20231 min read
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Transforming Self and World through Mindful Listening and Speaking
After “retiring”, why have I worked these past seventeen years? I experienced a powerful call to be a consultant, facilitator, and...

Robertson Work
May 26, 20231 min read
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Memes of A Compassionate Civilization
The following memes, containing quotes from my book on mindful activism, A Compassionate Civilization, were created by Caeri Bertrand,...

Robertson Work
Mar 9, 20231 min read
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Audiobook of A Compassionate Civilization Released Today! Sample Included.
Enjoy listening to Caeri Bertrand narrate A Compassionate Civilization: The Urgency of Sustainable Development and Mindful Activism. With...

Robertson Work
Feb 4, 20231 min read
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My 2022 Report to People and Planet
For many years, I have shared an annual report of caring for community and world, and for friends, family, and self. I do this as mindful...

Robertson Work
Dec 20, 20226 min read
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After the Attack on New York City: A Call to Create a World of Justice and Peace
As a student of the teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh and UNDP's principal policy advisor of decentralized governance based in NYC , I wrote...

Robertson Work
Mar 21, 202210 min read
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Four Faces of War and Peace
The piece below is excerpted from my speech to the Creative Peacemaking Symposium in 2014 at Oklahoma City University. It makes use of...

Robertson Work
Mar 8, 20225 min read
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UN Senior Officials Review A Compassionate Civilization
From a UN senior official in the Middle East: “In his book A Compassionate Civilization, Robertson Work does not mince words when it...

Robertson Work
Mar 2, 20226 min read
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Progressive, Engaged Buddhist Understandings
Below, please find selections of my Buddhist writings from 2004 to 2017. After being raised a Christian, attending theological seminary,...

Robertson Work
Jan 30, 202214 min read
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My 2022 Intentions and Actions
I will continue my journey as a nonfiction author and ecosystem/justice activist, while caring for friends, family, and self In 2022, my...

Robertson Work
Dec 30, 20212 min read
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To Write or Not to Write? That Is Not the Question.
In the beginning were the words. No, actually, experiences were first, then feelings, then awareness, then thoughts, then words. Words...

Robertson Work
Dec 19, 20211 min read
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My 2021 Report to People and Planet: A year of creativity, care, and courage
Activities as a Nonfiction Author In 2021, I wrote, edited, with layout and design assistance by Amnet (India), published, by my imprint...

Robertson Work
Dec 16, 20215 min read
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An Exquisitely Special Story
Somewhere in the unimaginable vastness of the cosmos lives a beautiful spiral galaxy. Even with billions of galaxies, there is one that...

Robertson Work
Dec 14, 20212 min read
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Life Against Death by Norman O. Brown: My Commentary
The Myth In the beginning was Primal Unity. The God of the day was Dionysus. Humanity was a child. There was of yet no time to speak of;...

Robertson Work
Dec 2, 20218 min read
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My Five Prayers
My five books on a Tibetan rug. May they help catalyze a compassionate civilization, serve people and planet, celebrate Earthling love,...

Robertson Work
Oct 25, 20211 min read
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Three Nested Systems: Self, Society, Planet
This is an excerpt from my essay "Orchestrating Organizational Energy within a Whole System Transition of Self, Society, and Planet"...

Robertson Work
Oct 21, 20217 min read
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The Christology of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
I wrote this essay in 1967 at Chicago Theological Seminary. It is published in the book Society, Spirit & Self: Essays on the One Dance,...

Robertson Work
Oct 17, 202111 min read
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Jennifer Hawthorne's review of Society, Spirit, Self
Jennifer Read Hawthorne is the author of four bestsellers. Below is her generous review of my new book. "'Society, Spirit, Self: Essays...

Robertson Work
Sep 29, 20212 min read
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