There are situations when all answers and explanations fade. When you fully accept that you do not know, you give up struggling to find answers with the limited thinking mind. That is when the greater intelligence can operate though you. Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.

The moment you realize you are not present, you are present.

Whereas the notion of purpose before was always associated with future, there is now a deeper purpose that can only be found in the present, through denial of time.

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

Fulfill me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am. The world cannot give you those things, and when you no longer have such expectations, all self created suffering comes to an end.

This, too, will pass.

Every practice at some point will become a hindrance. No practice can ever take you there, to freedom, to liberation. That's important to realize.