What the world knows as "talent" or "skill"

is simply a glimpse of a human's innate essence.

The full glory of this essence hides behind their Mind.

When one lives in and as their Mind,

their essence is not expressed wholly and purely through the Mind.

As the Mind, the human introduces many layers,

variously shaped blockades and other "mind-baggage" in its way.

This, on one extreme, causes the total eclipse of their glory,

and they spend their entire life being a burden on others.

Such a person's experience will mostly be sadness, depression,

and self-limiting beliefs.

Caught in the serpentine tentacles disguising as an

escape from their torment, they will repeatedly fall back

to needing, wanting, and hoping from others around them.

Their needs, wants, and hopes will increase self-doubt and torment,

which in turn will plague them with more needs, wants, and hopes.

Death will be their emancipation from the death-like existence

they will have experienced.

On the other extreme, an entrapment of the Mind

is a "diffraction" of one's essence through themselves.

Such a person will chase and chase.

The unclear sight cluttered by their personality

and the promises of the highs of the worldly life

will not allow them to source the many whims of their Mind

back to their essence.

To the world, such a human will appear wildly successful and appealing.

But inside they will only have a lived a life of "having everything"

but wanting more.

Deep inside they will always be empty.

Their never-ending "filling the cup to the brim" will keep them viscerally unfulfilled.

Until the very last moment, they will keep serving the Mind,

until darkness will come like a flash.

The two cases I mentioned above are akin to the two sides of the same coin.

The former case is one of not wanting to learn anything about oneself.

The result is repression of what one already is.

The latter case is one of wanting to learn too much.

The result is running away from what one already is.

The only thing common in both,

is the non-insistence to get to the Truth,

and thus a life lived around suffering and lack of inner peace.

The suffering will be unique to the side of the coin.

Others distributed between these two

will suffer a unique mix of the suffering of the two extremes.

Most will embrace that suffering as "normal".

Others will get tired but fall right back into

the Mind by seeking bandaids of

purpose, relationships, self-improvement, therapy, medication, etc.

Nothing and no one will emancipate them fully.

Nothing will be said to cushion this Truth.

Thank you.