That we live in crazy, uncertain times may be the understatement of the week. How to navigate this life and live fully engaged when it is so easy to be buffeted by the winds of events in our world and feeling the range of emotions.
It’s common to confuse sublime mystical states with the boundless field of consciousness that is present in ordinary states, low states and high states. When one realizes one’s own center of silence to be that unchanging field of conscious Life — that is never limited or bound by form, never blinking in and out, then one can turn attention to that at any time and live as one's true Self.
Then one’s personal reality could be likened to a boat anchored on a river; riding up and down with the tides, sometimes buffeted by winds and rocked by waves and still remain anchored to the ground beneath the river.