Resistance to pain is not the same as the pain being resisted. This means that resistance to suffering is useless suffering; all it creates is the illusion of a "self" that believes it has a choice whether or not to suffer in that given moment.

Talk Takeaways

God enters as self-love exits.

You cannot separate useless suffering from the level of consciousness that produces that same suffering.

When the real truth about suffering is revealed, most people run from it.

Why else would we try to escape our suffering unless we believed that there was a way to do it?

Resistance to pain is not the same as the pain being resisted. This means that resistance to suffering is useless suffering; all it creates is the illusion of a "self" that believes it has a choice whether or not to suffer in that given moment.

Since there is no way to escape the useless suffering of this lower level of consciousness, then you are going to have to die to that consciousness. However, dying to that consciousness cannot be brought about through your own will.

You cannot begin to die to your "self" until you actually start to see that consciousness and the self that it produces.

Everything that you've been looking for is already within you, but the will of the lower level of consciousness attempts to find what it wants outside of itself.

There is an essential tension that sits at the root of creation, and the gift given to human beings is that we can be aware of that tension. The tension belongs to creation itself.

Human beings are created to use the tension of creation, not to be used by it.

There is an inherent tension and suffering in longing. But the longing, the tension, nor the suffering are yours. They are impersonal. They are a part of the creative process that is looking to complete itself. Therefore, the original longing is a longing for the Divine.

The self that seeks to be fulfilled cannot be fulfilled by what it seeks outside of itself.

At the heart of creation itself is a Divine longing.

We are created with an infinite capacity for conscious suffering, the purpose of which is to reconnect with the Divine whose suffering it is.

In ceaseless creation there is a ceaseless agitation. That relationship is inseparable from the will of heaven, which is active, and that which it acts upon, which is passive. We are created to be consciously aware of these celestial and earthly forces at the same time.

Useless suffering always adds more useless suffering to the world.

The world is the way it is because no one wants to wake up and use pain and suffering for the purpose it was given.

Useless suffering always claims to be useful.

Discovering, being aware of where you are disconnected from the Divine is true religion.