So it's not about whether we feel depressed or happy; rather, it's about our willingness and ability to participate fully in any and all of our feelings. The experience of freedom arises not from acquiring our preferred lifestyle and our preferred state of mind but from a willingness to stay with ourselves—to be completely committed to experiencing our lives—regardless of circumstance.
-Bruce Tift, Already Free: Buddhism Meets Psychotherapy on the Path of Liberation
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