We can choose to reside in the middle, the center of the Wheel of Life -- to be simultaneously connected to and detached from the whirling world. This is how we can be in this world but not of it. We can choose to move our attention away from residing on the rim of the wheel of life, running continuously through changing terrains, to its center where we experience stability and calm.
We intuitively know that in challenging times we need to "get centered", to gather ourselves back from the superficial borders of life and connect again to our 'soul' -- the essence of our Being.
The Wheel of Life is always in motion, going through different fields -- gravel and grass, cowpats and daisies. If we identify solely with the edges of the wheel, always interfacing variously with happiness or sadness, always anxiously reaching and racing towards the next thing, how can we be at peace? At the surface of the wheel, ups and downs with accompanying insecurities are experienced, but at the center we find stability. So let us choose to reside at the center of the Wheel of Life, watching life's events spin around us, embracing it all -- supporting, loving, accepting, connected yet detached from the "drama", creative yet not controlling. It is in the center of our being that we meet the One Self. It is here we see we are not different, not separate from each other. It takes all of us: it takes the One Self to form the center. The center is where we, as infinite "spokes" of the One Consciousness, find community.

~ From: Living As God by P. Raymond Stewart