Learning to rejoice is to think of a loved one and to appreciate his or her good fortune. We start with a person we feel good about. We can imagine the loved one's face or say the person's name if it makes the practice more real. Then in our own words, we rejoice — that a person who was ill is now feeling healthy and cheerful, that a child who as lonely has found a friend.
— Pema Chodron, The Places That Scare You