The pain you go through when there is a higher purpose behind it is not the same as the pain when there is no useful purpose. Pain gives you a purpose that serves nothing but the nature that serves it. The clearer that becomes, you will no longer be afraid to "sell all" in moments when you are invited to turn the other cheek and not speak out from your suffering.

Topics covered: The meaning of the passage "Sell all and follow me" pertains to selling the psychological possessions of your past and your future; The hope in a time to come in which you will be free is the very prison you are in now; If you complete the moment, then you complete yourself. If you don't complete the moment, then you are tied to an incomplete nature seeking to complete itself in a time to come...

Topics covered: When you blame anything outside of yourself for the pain you are in, you are essentially blaming something from the past, a consciousness that is haunted by the content of itself; The future consolation that you hope to reach is a projection of the past; Even though a moment may seem familiar to the mind that is analyzing it, every single moment of your life is the first time that you have been in it.