We might think of the mind as being like clear, open space. All kinds of things arise there, but the space is not affected….In meditation  and in our lives, it is not so important what particular experience arises. What’s important is how we relate to it. By learning to relate well with whatever arises, we open to the full range of human experience, to what the Taoists call “the ten thousand joys and the ten thousand sorrows”.

Joseph Goldstein, A Heart Full of Peace

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