Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
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Bringing Mindfulness to Loneliness
By Toni Bernhard — 2015
Toni Bernhard has a mindfulness exercise for bringing compassion to feelings of loneliness.
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