This too will pass................

There was a king who asked a rishi for a powerful talisman. The rishi gave him a ring containing a folded slip of paper and asked him to open it when faced with extraordinary situations, whether of tragedy or triumph. The talisman, the rishi told the king, will keep him grounded; it would help him keep his head in any situation.
The king had many occasions to experience the power of the writing on the paper during a long reign. The paper had on it a simple line: "This, too, shall pass". Events and emotions in our life stay alive only in our memory. What remains is the one who experiences, unmoved and unmovable, the one witness, the Presence within us.