You are the sky. Everything else is weather.

Pema Chodron offers this powerful image: You are the sky. Your thoughts, emotions, sensations, and experiences are the weather.

Storms come and go. Clouds gather and disperse. Rain falls and stops. But the sky remains. Vast, open, unchanging.

When you identify with the weather, you suffer with every storm. When you realize you are the sky, storms lose their power to devastate you.

In meditation, practice being the sky. Watch the weather of your mind without becoming it. Thoughts are clouds. Emotions are rain. Sensations are wind. You are the vast, clear sky that holds it all.