How we respond to bad news reflects not just how bad the news is but also how bad our view of the world is. Whenever some bad news comes: some people just go off on a mental spiral downward; where they become pessimistic, cynical, desperate – and while the news might be bad, their reaction reveals that their own basic view of the world is itself bad. If any news can just set us off, then that means we haven’t found some stable foundation for our own lives. And that is the real bad news.

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12.17 One who neither rejoices nor grieves, who neither laments nor desires, and who renounces both auspicious and inauspicious things – such a devotee is very dear to Me.