Ultimate relief from pain can come only by the effacement of the ego

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When an individual seeks fulfilment outside himself, he fails; if he seeks it

within himself, he is successful in obtaining it. The divine principle within us

is always accessible and always responsive. Pain is felt only as long as

attachment or aversion to outer forms remains. Ultimate relief from pain can

come only by the effacement of the ego, by the elimination of that which reacts

to one thing as pain and to another as pleasure, and whose memory and

conditioning sustains the recognition of the dualities of joy and grief.