• Suffering can be used to surrender ego, pride, and self-esteem.
• Suffering can be used to focus on what is most important in life.
• Suffering can be used to discover a right relationship to God and life.
• Suffering can be used to reduce the self to its essential actions and qualities.
• Suffering can be used to find your self as the host of suffering and to learn to suffer well, for example, by not choosing to suffer over your suffering.