I finished The Tibetan Book of The Dead, a book recommended to me by Hypnotica. I struggled to understand most of the concepts, because I’m unfamiliar with much of Tibetan philosophy, though I believe I obtained what this book is communicating.

The following is an excerpt that hit me the most:

We spend our lives trying to make ends meet, seeking to inform ourselves about what we need to know to succeed in the tasks we think essential to survival. But we have spent countless lifetimes suffering the loss of everything again and again, all because we have not realized what it is that we ourselves actually are. We have thought we were absolute life-centers, struggling against a hostile environment, trying to prolong our existence against all odds. We never recognized that our very intelligence itself is the same as the strong force that holds all things together, that we have always essentially been one with our highest fulfillment, our ultimate possible goal. So we always feared, fought, struggled, suffered, and put our effort into the exactly opposite direction. (Page 230)