An internal breakthrough is a burden, an external one is a blessing.

Nature asserts itself in the face of Spirit which it denies while assuming it; the individual is again found in the collectivity within which he is lost; & each man's death is fulfilled by being cancelled out into the Life of Mankind.

But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.

Every burden is a blessing.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.