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At LinkedIn, Mindfulness Is Serious Business

By Lindsay Blakely

LinkedIn’s head of mindfulness and compassion programs says, “Compassion is a strategy for long-term success.”

Read on www.inc.com

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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

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There is no other day. All days are present now. This moment contains all moments.

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Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.

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Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

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'Knock and it shall be opened.’ But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?

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When things go wrong, you’ll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.

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There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

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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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Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. . . . It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.

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Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.

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