Only birth can conquer death — the birth , not of the old thing again, but of something new . - Joseph Campbell

When the Buddha declares there is escape from sorrow, the escape is Nirvana, which is not a place, like heaven, but a psychological state of mind in which you are are released from desire and fear. And your life becomes harmonious, centered and affirmative. Even with suffering.

The Buddhists speak of the bodhisattva - the one who knows immortality, yet voluntarily enters into the field of the fragmentation of time and participates willingly and joyfully in the sorrows of the world.

In the Old Testament story God points out the one forbidden thing. Now, God must have known very well that man was going to eat the forbidden fruit. But it was by doing that that man became the initiator of his own life. Life really began with that act of disobedience.

Freud tells us to blame our parents for all the shortcomings of our life,
and Marx tells us to blame the upper class of our society.
But the only one to blame is oneself.
That's the helpful thing about the Indian idea of karma.
Your fate is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.