When you successfully meditate, or even if you simply step into a beautiful natural environment, your mind becomes clear and your heart becomes glad. You experience reverence toward Life. You realize the same pure divinity you find in nature is also inside of you.
But when you step out of nature or out of meditation, it’s difficult to maintain that state of being, in which you are in touch with your unconscious mind. You encounter all kinds of stress and emotions.
What’s important is not avoiding the waves of stress and emotion, but remembering that your current reality is not the only one. Think of your current state or situation as just a screen on which you are watching passing scenery. Don’t regard the phenomena as absolute.
Only reverence toward Life is absolute. The wonder of Life is an unchanging essence that flows eternally. You can re-experience this wonder by going down to the still depths below the waves.
But you cannot survive in the depths while you have a physical body. You have to go to the surface to breathe and check out the direction of the wind creating the waves to determine the course you want to travel.
With practice, you can master shifting between different states of consciousness, swimming down into the depths and popping up to surf the bouncing waves of the surface. Then you can successfully manage a meaningful life.