If you’ve ever tried chasing a rainbow, you know the feeling of never being able to reach it. If there’s a pot of gold buried at its end, it’s not findable because as soon as you arrive where it had been, the rainbow has either moved farther away again or vanished. In our physical world, this is because the millions of little raindrops that become colorful prisms when the sunlight strikes them are at many different angles to us. As we move, the angles shift and the raindrops appear to create a new rainbow. It seems that, in order to see it, we have to be at a distance from it. But in reality the rainbow itself is not all that far. Try reaching it a different way—through stillness instead of chasing. Realize that from someone else’s viewpoint we actually are standing at the foot of a rainbow. Just because it’s invisible to us does not make it less real and visible to someone else. It’s all a matter of perspective. Change your view that the world is outside yourself and instead integrate what you see within you. Feel the magical presence of now. Dig for the pot of gold that you are currently standing on. Each one of us is the beholder, the rainbow, and the pot of gold.
