We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it.
Instead of fighting your problems, picture your way out of them.
If heaven existed as a physical building on earth, human beings would remodel it to make it right.
You need only choose ... then keep choosing as many times as necessary. That is all you need do. And it is certainly something you can do. Then as you continue to choose, everything is yours.
We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself.
The only reason you do not do great things is because you timidly cling to small things. Will you let loose of small things and bear the uncertainty of having nothing for a while? Do this and eventually you will do great things.