enlightenment and its natural enemy, the mind – I can’t think of a Jewish source that doesn’t say that the source of enlightenment is the mind (maharal, mesillas yesharim, maharsha, ohr yisrael)
He awakens readers to their role as a creator of pain and shows them how to have a pain-free identity by living fully in the present – ve’yadata hayom ki ka’asher ye’yaser ha’ish es beno Hashem elokechah meyasrekah – we do receive yissurin but we respond to them and are elevated through them
the indestructible essence of our Being, “the eternal, ever-present One Life beyond the myriad forms of life that are
subject to birth and death” – kudsha berich hu ve’yisroel ve’oraisoh chad hu is a more encompassing thought than saying that life as we perceive it is ephemeral