Hi, my name's Andy and welcome to Radio Headspace and to Friday Morning.
So a few days back I was dressing my son and I noticed down the side of his trousers
that there wasn't so much a logo it was more sort of a little phrase and it said different together.
I don't know for some reason sort of stuck in my mind not just that day but for a few days actually.
I think it's a really unusual thing in life just to celebrate our uniqueness
and our differences whilst at the same time remembering that we collectively.
There is something that unites us all.
And, you know, I think that's central to the practice and the cultivation of mindfulness,
awareness, compassion, the idea that there is a nature of mind that connects us all.
And yet, at the same time, we are all, you know,
living our own lives, we have different stories, the thoughts are sort of different.
And I feel like there's such an important thing to remember.
I think very often in life it's almost like we have a filing cabinet
in our mind with different labels on the drawers and we'll sort of meet people
and as we meet them probably quite quickly actually we tend to assign them to a particular drawer.
Obviously this is all happening sort of subconsciously.
We're not sort of thinking it through.
It's hopefully not.
But this idea that we sort of know where people are based on all kinds of different bits of information.
And because of that, it creates a sense of we know where we are, a sense of security,