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 for the human condition.
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.
Humane Beings generally cross through a crucible of personal reckoning and transcended it into a full 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
Aleksi Navalny
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
- Heather Cox Richardson
- Robert Oppenheimer
- Mary Magdalene
- Hannah Ardent
- 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
- Bill Moyers
- Harriet Tubman
- Pope Leo XIV
- Carol Burnett
- Mary Ann Williamson
- John Muir
- Betty White
- Emily Dickenson
- Toni Morrison
- Richard Pryor
- Benazir Bhutto
- Jon Stewart
- Victor Frankel
- Simone Biles
- Vaclav Havel
- Dr. David Livingston
- 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
- 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
- John Leguizamo
- Albert Einstein
- Sally Fields