Nothing lasts forever—not good times or bad.  Remember this when you are joyous or
distraught.  Why?  Because joy and despair are merely opposite
experiences along a spectrum you call human life.  If you can recognize that these changing
states are reflections of your humanness, then you can recognize that there is
another aspect of yourself.

Picture three points of a triangle.  Place joy at one point, perhaps the lower
right, and despair at the opposite point on the left, and another point between
the two but high above.  That point
represents the place of peace.  Now cast
a three dimensional sphere around that upper point.  It encompasses both the joy and the despair
and all points in between and around. 
That sphere represents the possibilities of all human experience which
are yours to enjoy or not to enjoy.
When you are ready for some peace, return to that
upper point of the triangle, which you can see now is also the very center of
the sphere.  It is there at the center of
you.  So now we must modify our initial
statement in light of this new understanding. 
Nothing lasts forever in the human experience except the eternal point
of peace at the center … which is the center of Consciousness … the eternal I
AM.