Pits and Domes

On a recent journey in Mammoth Cave in Kentucky I learned an interesting lesson about the vertical shafts throughout the formation.  The same shaft can be a pit or a dome.  It all depends on the position you occupy as the observer.  The lesson is even more interesting when considered in the light of Eckart Tolle's book on our ego and our conscious, present (true) selves called A New Earth.  The people we seek to lead (and of course, even ourselves) are often pits.  Sometimes seemingly bottomless.  Pits of need, pits of despair, pits of anger, pits of incongruences, pits of complaints, pits of grudges.   Can you think of the times you have seen that same person as a dome-- a majestic, soaring Sistine Chapel?  It's the same shaft and the same person.  It has to do with how we observe them.  Is that their unrealized ego instead of who they really are? 

What makes a pit or a dome isn't the person, it's your position as the observer.