Intense Suffering Can Burn Up the Ego

You no longer perceive life as antagonistic. The universe is no longer perceived as hostile. And that's a huge shift. Millions of people still consider the universe hostile. When this shift comes, when you alline yourself with life, which us now, and that now has a depth to it. That now is consciousness. It's the underlying intelligence behind the manifestation of phenomenal existenceh an underlying field of intelligence that connects everything. And so it is much more likely that helpful circumstances will arise and solve your problems than if you are resisting what is then you have to struggle.