Key Lesson Part I: Be encouraged by this truth and then do the inner work to realize the freedom it holds for you: Life itself never stands in our way. It never intends to hold us down. If something is seen by us as restricting our way, then, instead of backing away in resentment from what amounts to a vision of life provided for us by our own thickened thoughts about what we cannot be, let us turn our attention to the parts of us that habitually believe in such barriers and learn to walk through these false notions as we do through late afternoon shadows.
Part II: Any pleasure sought by the self to help bring its pain to an end does not help end this pain but, in fact, only secretly conditions the same self to run through a continuous cycle of unconscious pleasure and pain; where each pleasure gained serves only to ensure the need for, and continuance of, the pain this self needs in order to later please itself.
