Thoughtful and Impressive Principles for Everyone

As some of you know, I'm an active member of Pachamama Alliance, an umbrella organization that is working to move the planet and its people into a more environmentally sane and socially just direction. One of our readings is Will Keepin's Principles of Spiritual Leadership, adapted from a presentation at Schumacher College, Totnes, England. Will is affiliated with the Satyana Institute in Boulder, Colorado. I found these principles so thoughtful, engaging, and yet so simple. Here, the first principle:
The motivation underlying our activism for social change must be transformed from anger and despair to compassion and love. This is a major challenge for the environmental movement, for example. It is not to deny the legitimacy of noble anger or outrage at injustice of any kind. Rather, we seek to work for love, rather than against evil. We need to adopt compassion and love as our foundational intention, and do whatever inner work is required to implement this intention. Even if our outward actions remain the same, there is a major difference in results if our underlying intention supports love rather than defeating evil. The Dalai lama says, "A positive future can never emerge from the mind of anger and despair."