Most of us live in such a heartless social world that sometimes the cruelty is better laughed at than wept at. In the MWIH discussion group, you have a chance to tell a little story to which others will simile in sympathy or laugh at the irony of human-to-human harm-doing.

Each week a new question will be posted here. The question will not have a correct answer. It will be a question about applying compassion. Please join the group and enter a comment or suggested answer to the question. Also, please suggest topics for future questions of the week.

This is a place for people to write what they have learned from having cystic fibrosis or being close to someone with the disease. The lessons can be about oneself, family, strangers, society, anything. Hopefully, the process will bring healing to the CF community, and help others understand what it is like to live with cystic fibrosis.

This group is for people involved with caring communities or who are caregivers at home. The challenge is to sustain compassion despite stress, grief and difficulties of all types.

Compassion in the popular culture tends to be associated with extraordinary persons like Mother Theresa or the Dali Lama. Yet ordinary individuals undoubtedly commit many acts of compassion every day. This group discussion has been created to make it easier for anybody to tell stories of compassion in everyday life.

In order to stimulate greater focus upon compassion-building by educational and charitable organizations, the Foundation for Compassionate Politics will give a $500 prize each year to the most outstanding compassion-building project or program. To nominate a program or project, please leave a comment with your nominee and preliminary justification. At the end of the year, you and all the other members of this website will be given a chance to vote for your favorite Compassion-Building project. The project polling the most votes will receive the Prize.

This is the international Advisory Council for CompassionatePolitics.org, which was formed to provide ongoing feedback and new ideas for the web site. Topics addressed include goals and direction, implementation, partnerships, links, and promotion.