What we take to be true is our reality. The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal. The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Life is too precious to be sacrificed for the nonessential and transient.
Ignore the inconsequential. If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it. She is a failure and she knows it. As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.