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The only remedy for all human suffering is divine love.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/suffering#p6</ref>
The first thing to do is to look straight at this suffering, perceive to what extent it is the expression of a very petty egoism and then sweep the place clean.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/17-november-1954#p17</ref>
Additionally, always affirming to oneself, the will to change and insisting that it shall be done and cannot fail to be done now or later with divine help.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/depression-and-despondency#p70</ref>
===Surrender===
By turning your emotions towards the Divine, aspire for their purification; they will then become a help on the way and no longer a cause of suffering.
<ref>://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/bhakti-devotion-worship#p3</ref>
If the mind and vital consent to surrender and have full faith,...then there may be difficulties but there is no suffering.
One step to go beyond human suffering is to know that this life is not all. To realise, to become concretely aware of that subjective persistence which is called the immortality of the soul. Another step forward is to learn that his surface waking state is only a small part of his being. While discovering self and spirit he discovers God and comes to the vision of that Self in the cosmic consciousness as the divine Reality behind Nature and this world of beings. This is the step on the path which leads out of falsehood and suffering.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-progress-to-knowledge-god-man-and-nature#p18</ref>
===Qualities Which Aid===
Trust, virtue, energy, meditation, the quest for truth, perfection of knowledge and conduct, by faith destroy in you all suffering. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/punishment#p16</ref>
Accepting with equality and to endure firmly and calmly and to go on in a steady faith in the Divine Will not including inert acceptance.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/equality-the-chief-support#p18</ref>
==Suffering As An Aid for Itself==
Under certain conditions an initiating Ignorance must intervene as a necessary factor, a compulsion...of the suffering, to prepare an emergence of the divine Delight of Being. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the-cosmic-illusion-mind-dream-and-hallucination#p6</ref>
These three things—the suffering as a means of progress, the progress, and the cure of the suffering—are coexistent, simultaneous they take place at the same time.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/07/september-28-1966#p23</ref>
==Common Errors in Eliminating Sufferings==
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/the-awakened-one-the-buddha#p11</ref>
Suffering inflicted on others is not a good base on which to build spiritual realisation. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/helping-others-and-the-world#p1</ref>
The suffering arising out of life cannot be abolished by the abolition of life (suicide)
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/helping-humanity#p6</ref>
Suicide is the worst way that anyone could take to get out of a spiritual difficulty. It only increases and prolongs the difficulty.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/dealing-with-depression-and-despondency#p59</ref>
Liberation can in no way abolish suffering from earth and cure others of it. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/helping-humanity#p9</ref>
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