A thought at lunch:

Its all about the ego and how it really isn’t a thing.  All the unpleasantness is about how we think it is. What’s left is what we religious types call “God,” but what you call it isn’t the main thing.  The main thing, if we're interested, is how the idea of an “I” causes problems for us.  I find when I focus on this, the rest will sort itself out.