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===In Mental===
Almost all human miseries come from the fact that human beings are almost always persuaded they know better than the Divine what they need and what life is supposed to bring them. The majority of human beings want other human beings to behave according to their own expectations and life circumstances to follow their own desires, hence they suffer and are unhappy. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/13/february-5-1972#p</ref>
It is necessary to curb the mind’s impatience a little. Knowledge is progressive—if it tries to leap up to the top at once, it may make a hasty construction which it will have afterwards to undo. The knowledge and experience must come by degrees and step by step. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/mental-difficulties-and-the-need-of-quietude#p17</ref>
===In Psychic Being===
It is the inner being that suffers and always wants to unite with the divine consciousness but cannot because of the outer consciousness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/calm#p2</ref>
=Why Suffering Happens?=
Pain affects us more intensely because it is abnormal to our being, contrary to our natural tendency and is experienced as an outrage on our existence, an offence and external attack on what we are and seek to be. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/delight-of-existence-the-problem#p5,p8</ref>
The purpose and goal of life is not suffering and struggle but an all-powerful and happy realization. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/13/february-7-1972#p2</ref>
=How to Deal with Suffering?=
===In the Physical===
In physical, when there is suffering, bring into oneself a kind of immobility, as total as possible, at the place of pain, this has the effect of an anaesthetic. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/17-november-1954#p22</ref>
A strong equality and mastery and detachment must come in the nerves and body as in the mind, which will enable the physical to know and contact these things without feeling any disturbance; change the consciousness and not feel the pressure of the movements in the atmosphere then stop suffering. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/food#p29</ref>
==Turning to the Divine==
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>
The only remedy for all human suffering is divine love. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/suffering#p6</ref> Additionally, always affirming to oneself your 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>One step to go beyond human suffering is to know that this life is not all. Another step forward is to learn that this 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>
==Rejection==
==Suicide==
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>
=Why Suffering Happens?=