Headspace Studios.

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, 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, a 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,

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