Welcome to Compassionate Taunton. Celebrating Taunton’s adoption of The Charter For Compassion. Taunton has proudly adopted the Charter for Compassion, signalling our commitment to fostering a community where compassion guides all our decisions and actions.
The principle of compassion lies at the heart of all religious, ethical and spiritual traditions, calling us always to treat all others as we wish to be treated ourselves. Compassion impels us to work tirelessly to alleviate the suffering of our fellow creatures, to dethrone ourselves from the centre of our world and put another there, and to honour the inviolable sanctity of every single human being, treating everybody, without exception, with absolute justice, equity and respect.
With the help of Andy Spragg, from The Sangha House, we are now rolling out The Charter For Compassion to organisations, companies and individuals throughout our wonderful town.