Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty

Anne Herbert is an American writer and a past assistant editor of CoEvolution Quarterly, a precursor to the Whole Earth Review. Dr. M. Paloma Pavel is president of Earth House of Oakland, California. She is editor of Breakthrough Communities: Sustainability and Justice in the Next American Metropolis (MIT Press, 2009), and co-edits Sustainable Metropolitan Communities Books for MIT Press. Mayumi Oda is an artist and global activist participating in anti-nuclear campaigns worldwide.

"This exquisite book offers guidance to us all." -- Alice Walker "This is the real article, brought to us by streetwise bodhisattva, Anne Herbert, who authored the phrase you see on walls and bumperstickers, and Margaret Pavel, word wizard, systems thinker and global therapist, along with Dharma artist Mayumi Oda, whose wondrous frogs remind us that this time we awaken with all beings. Good things come in small packages. About as long as the Heart Sutra, it distills all we need to know right now in order to let our lives count in building a sustainable world." -- Joanna Macy "Wow! This book is amazing. The message is so important and relevant! I believe that we all have the power! I love the way this book sends this message of goodness to children. Children are the future and this book conveys HOPE! It is rich in language, thought provoking and positive." --Marla Conn, Common Core Curriculum Standards assessment specialist "This exquisite book offers guidance to us all." -- Alice Walker "This is the real article, brought to us by streetwise bodhisattva, Anne Herbert, who authored the phrase you see on walls and bumperstickers, and Margaret Pavel, word wizard, systems thinker and global therapist, along with Dharma artist Mayumi Oda, whose wondrous frogs remind us that this time we awaken with all beings. Good things come in small packages. About as long as the Heart Sutra, it distills all we need to know right now in order to let our lives count in building a sustainable world." -- Joanna Macy "Wow! This book is amazing. The message is so important and relevant! I believe that we all have the power! I love the way this book sends this message of goodness to children. Children are the future and this book conveys HOPE! It is rich in language, thought provoking and positive." --Marla Conn, Common Core Curriculum Standards assessment specialist -This exquisite book offers guidance to us all.- --Alice Walker -Wow! This book is amazing. The message is so important and relevant! I believe that we all have the power! I love the way this book sends this message of goodness to children. Children are the future and this book conveys HOPE! It is rich in language, thought provoking and positive.- --Marla Conn "This exquisite book offers guidance to us all." --Alice Walker "Wow! This book is amazing. The message is so important and relevant! I believe that we all have the power! I love the way this book sends this message of goodness to children. Children are the future and this book conveys HOPE! It is rich in language, thought provoking and positive." --Marla Conn This is the real article, brought to us by streetwise bodhisattva, Anne Herbert, who authored the phrase you see on walls and bumperstickers, and Margaret Pavel, word wizard, systems thinker and global therapist, along with Dharma artist Mayumi Oda, whose wondrous frogs remind us that this time we awaken with all beings. Good things come in small packages. About as long as the Heart Sutra (I counted the words), it distills -- in ordinary, inspired language -- all we need to know right now in order to let our lives count in building a sustainable world. It tells us about the kind of power we each have right now to take choice -- and the delight that can be ours, if we are not afraid to seize it. --Joanna Macy "This exquisite book offers guidance to us all."--Alice Walker "Wow! This book is amazing. The message is so important and relevant! I believe that we all have the power! I love the way this book sends this message of goodness to children. Children are the future and this book conveys HOPE! It is rich in language, thought provoking and positive."--Marla Conn This is the real article, brought to us by streetwise bodhisattva, Anne Herbert, who authored the phrase you see on walls and bumperstickers, and Margaret Pavel, word wizard, systems thinker and global therapist, along with Dharma artist Mayumi Oda, whose wondrous frogs remind us that this time we awaken with all beings. Good things come in small packages. About as long as the Heart Sutra (I counted the words), it distills -- in ordinary, inspired language -- all we need to know right now in order to let our lives count in building a sustainable world. It tells us about the kind of power we each have right now to take choice -- and the delight that can be ours, if we are not afraid to seize it.--Joanna Macy "Wow! This book is amazing. The message is so important and relevant! I believe that we all have the power! I love the way this book sends this message of goodness to children. Children are the future and this book conveys HOPE! It is rich in language, thought provoking and positive."--Marla Conn "This exquisite book offers guidance to us all."--Alice Walker This is the real article, brought to us by streetwise bodhisattva, Anne Herbert, who authored the phrase you see on walls and bumperstickers, and Margaret Pavel, word wizard, systems thinker and global therapist, along with Dharma artist Mayumi Oda, whose wondrous frogs remind us that this time we awaken with all beings.Good things come in small packages. About as long as the Heart Sutra (I counted the words), it distills -- in ordinary, inspired language -- all we need to know right now in order to let our lives count in building a sustainable world. It tells us about the kind of power we each have right now to take choice -- and the delight that can be ours, if we are not afraid to seize it.--Joanna Macy