Why do we suffer? We suffer for two primary reasons: first, we do not know who we are and because we are not living in alignment with our truth. Our egoic mind mostly blames others or life for our suffering. But at some point, we mature and we realize that blaming is futile. This maturity comes from seeing the futility of arguing with Life and realizing that what we are is not our blaming mind—is not this painful separate egoic existence. Once we know that who and what we are is the quiet, vast intelligence of the universe, 90% of our self-created suffering dissolves. Once we know who and what we are, we naturally begin to live in alignment with our Divinity and begin living a life of true happiness. Yet as soon as we step out of this alignment, we will again step into the world of separation, samsara, and suffering.
This does not mean we will have a life free of pain. Pain is quite different than suffering. Suffering is the experience of resistance to the Truth; it is the experience of division and separation. Because we are one with Life, and Life is ever evolving we will still continue to experience some level of growing pains. All beings whether they are awake to their True Nature and living in alignment with their hearts, or not will experience growing pains in life. This is part of being human—of being in form in an evolutionary world. Yet if we wake up to our true nature and begin to know ourselves as one with Life Itself, our personal egoic delusion will gently dissolve; from this vast perspective we will realize that who and what we are is one with Life and the movement of evolution and we will be happy grow and expand, even if it involves the feeling of pain.