Intelligent Compassion Working to End Needless Suffering
by Stephen Cocconi with Guidance from the Consortium
All of these people have acted in ways that are both selfless and yet working to be the best Selves they can become. None of these people are saints, nor did many of them seek fame, yet they have demonstrated a courage to be active, present, public, and contributing to the benefit of the human condition, not Ego aggrandizement nor wealth hoarding indulgence.
They were REAL (authentically vulnerable and principally genuine) Mature Adults...even in the case of the youngest mentioned (Anne Frank and Greta Thunberg).
Their high Vibration and deep integrity itself represents attractors of both visibility and meaningfully achievements. The Consortium has selected these examples for readers here to grasp the potency of their resonance and realize the vast difference of origins each have had. Ironically, those most opposed to these lights represent the opposite side of the Vibrational spectrum, (left unnamed here), since they recognized the reflections of themselves which they have fear of and therefore project hate outward. Humane Beings attract negative attention since they shine a light upon it for healing.
Humane Beings generally cross through a crucible of personal reckoning and transcended it into a fuller expression of themselves. Every person has the capacity to reach for this within themselves by going beyond themselves. Yet most never see beyond their own pain or biases and thus hide themselves in shame or fear and hence fail to turn the bulk of their attention, or potency of being, to the outside world and to those who need them. Such actions, even in small increments will move the human animal away from being mere reactive hominids and into conscious actors.
(The images here are in no special order.)


Jane Goodall



Audrey Hepburn

Carl Sagan

Bob Marley


Pope Francis

E O Wilson

Helen Keller


Greta Thunberg

Nelson Mandela

Anne Frank

Brian Cox

Meryl Streep

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Howard Zinn


Eric Blair aka George Orwell

Princess Diana Spenser

Fred Rogers

Muhammed Ali


Joni Mitchell

Joseph Campbell

Rachel Carson

Yuval Noah Harari
Marcus Aurelius

Martin Luther King

Jimmy Carter

Eleanor Roosevelt

James Baldwin

Margaret Atwood

Sir Isaac Newton

Robin Williams
Hypatia – Scholar and Teacher

Alexie Navalny

Georgia O’Keefe

Bob Ross

Malala Yousafzai
Bruce Lee

Dr. Vandana Shiva

Jesus of Nazareth


George Harrison

Wilma Manhiller

Colin Kaepernick

Ruth Bader Ginsberg

Pete Seeger


Rutger Bregman

Walt Whitman

Peace Pilgrim
(Mildred Lisette Norman)

Elie Wiesel

The Buddha – Siddhartha Gautama

Aldous Huxley

Honorable Mentions:
- Mohandas Gandhi
- Marie Currie
- Margaret Sanger
- George Carlin
- John F. Kennedy
- Hammurabi
- Heather Cox Richardson
- Robert Oppenheimer
- Mary Magdalene
- Hannah Arendt
- Jane Austen
- Gabor Mate
- Malcomb X
- Brene’ Brown
- Vladimir Zelenskyy
- Rosa Parks
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Naomi Judd
- John Lennon
- Stacy Abrams
- Melinda French Gates
- Levar Burton
- Emma Watson
- Mark Garofalo
- Stephen Colbert
- Lady Gaga
- Timothy Snyder
- Naomi Klein
- Steve Biko
- Lucille Ball
- Bill Hicks
- Catherine of Siena
- Bill Moyers
- Harriet Tubman
- Pope Leo XIV
- Carol Burnett
- Mary Ann Williamson
- John Muir
- Betty White
- Emily Dickenson
- Toni Morrison
- Michael Pollan
- Richard Pryor
- Benazir Bhutto
- Jon Stewart
- Victor Frankel
- Simone Biles
- Vaclav Havel
- Marie Curie
- Dr. David Livingston
- Francis of Assisi
- Yannis Varoufakis
- Neil DeGrasse Tyson
- AI WeiWei
- Michelle Obama
- Barack Obama
- Voltaire
- Oprah Winfrey
- Morgan Freedman
- Franklin Roosevelt
- Walter Cronkite
- Whoopi Goldberg
- Taylor Swift
- Jackie Robinson
- Anderson Cooper
- Frida Kahlo
- Sally Ride
- Neil Armstrong
- John Glenn
- Joan Baez
- Paulo Freire (Pedagogy of the Oppressed)
- Erin Brockovich
- Ram Dass – Richard Alpert
- Keanu Reeves
- Nikola Tesla
- Octavia Butler
- Issac Asimov
- Frank Llyod Wright
- Dick VanDyke
- Herb Alpert
- Simone de Bouvier
- Sojourner Truth
- Frederick Douglas
- Sun Yat-Sen
- David Bowie
- Angela Davis
- Milena Fiore
- JoAnna Macy
- Helen Caldecott
- John Leguizamo
- Albert Einstein
- Sally Fields
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Annie Applebaum
- Martin Sheen
- Bishop Desmond Tutu
- Pema Chodron
- Bernie Sanders
- Ursula K. LeGuin
- Anthony Bourdain
- Edward Snowden
- Christopher Hitchens
- Richard Rohr
- Daniel Ellsberg
- Barbara Marx-Hubbard
- David Hogg
- Peter Coyote
- Ken Burns
- Navi Pillay
- Paul Newman
- JoAnn Woodward
- Edgar Mitchell
- Patrick Stewart
- Mary Oliver
- Langston Hughes
- Muhammed Yunus
- Baruck Spinoza
- John Dunne
