Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

... inherited collective mind-patterns ... have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons.

Ask yourself: Is there joy, ease and lightness in what i'm doing? If there isn't then time is covering up the present moment, and life is perceived as a burden or a struggle.

Don't wait to be successful at some future point, have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

Direct your attention inward. Have a look inside yourself. What kind of thoughts is your mind producing? What do you feel? Direct your attention into the body. Is there any tension? Once you detect that there is a low level of unease, the background static, see in what way you are avoiding, resisting, or denying life-by denying the Now.

True happiness is found in simple, seemingly unremarkable things.

God is not a personality outside of you. What God is, is inextricably part of what you are. God is the dimension of depth within you.