There are times in your life when you struggle, and times when everything goes just right. At those latter times you wish that nothing would ever change, but in the back of your mind you wonder when the shoe will fall. Life is like that, with its ups and downs. It is the Law of Life that all is like a pendulum swinging back and forth, back and forth, good to bad, happy and sad. Where is the line between two opposites? There is no clear delineation. It is all one experience arising from a state of pure “being.”
Picture the arc of the pendulum as the outer edge of your experience, then ride along the chain of the pendulum to the apex. Is this not the center of what would be a circle if the swing continued all the way around? There at the apex, in the center of the circle of experience, is stillness. And who holds the pendulum? The Great Observer.
You, too, can rise above the swaying, ever-moving arc of experience and rejoin the Observer at any time to experience peace. In this state of simply “being,” duality disappears. You can rejoin your ups and downs at any time or simply choose to rise above.