A Guide to Cultivating Compassion in Your Life, With 7 Practices

A Guide to Cultivating Compassion in Your Life, With 7 Practices
The main benefit is that it helps you to be more happy, and brings others around you to be more happy. ShutterStock
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I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I’m not talking about the short-term gratification of pleasures like sex, drugs or gambling (though I’m not knocking them), but something that will bring true and lasting happiness. The kind that sticks.

The key to developing compassion in your life is to make it a daily practice.
Leo Babauta
Leo Babauta
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Leo Babauta is the author of six books and the writer of Zen Habits, a blog with over 2 million subscribers. Visit ZenHabits.net
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