Experience is always changing, like the movement of clouds against the sky. Realization – the stable awareness of the true nature of your mind – is like the sky itself, an unchanging background against which shifting experience occur.

Mingyur Rinpoche

from the book The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness

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