Yes, the path that leads to revelation is more difficult, but only in the beginning. Following its way, we are asked to look for the source of our suffering within us instead of what our suffering points to outside of us as being its cause. Why choose this route? Because it’s only by deliberately illuminating these darkened corners of our own consciousness—where shadowy parts of us work in secret to misdirect us—that their authority over us can be brought to an end.

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