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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 was a,

there was a 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. 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 living our own lives, we have different

stories, the thoughts, as are different. And I feel like there's such an important

thing to remember. I think very often in life is 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

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