Frankl wrote: “… suffering is not always a pathological phenomenon; rather than being a symptom of neurosis, suffering may well be a human achievement, especially if the suffering grows out of existential frustration.” What is Creator’s perspective?

This can be considered a truism, that pain and suffering have an important role in things and are an important indicator deserving of attention as is their purpose and their nature in being hard to ignore. Suffering, like pain, is a warning something is wrong and may be gravely wrong. It is at once, both a problem to be solved and a healing opportunity because inevitably, healing will be needed to right the wrong underway, causing the discord, discomfort, unease, torment, whatever the case might be, a person is experiencing. Many find it all too easy to give up in such circumstances, having tried and failed to surmount the difficulty causing suffering to begin with. The greatest lesson taught by Viktor Frankl in his personal witnessing of the Holocaust is this very point, that even when things are at their very worst, there is a solution. People think their suffering is due to external circumstances beyond their control. In actuality, suffering is a personal experiencing within, and everything within the individual is under their control in one way or another. If you are suffering because you are impoverished, are subjected to race discrimination, or other prejudice, and feel held down and held back, you can cure your suffering by receiving healing for your feeling of diminishment in self-worth. What matters most is character and inner strength, and maintaining the ability to feel love and express it, first and foremost, for the self. You may need it to stand strong under extremely difficult challenges, but we can tell you that maintaining inner strength by being in divine alignment and in the flow of love will far more likely serve you in ways enabling you to overcome whatever difficulties are troubling you much more effectively than you would otherwise. When you give in to suffering, you are truly in a prison of your own making. When prisoners reach depths of despair and have an inner awakening and open themselves to the divine, their hearts will start to sing and even though they remain behind bars, sometimes for quite an extended period, they will have an inner peace many who are not imprisoned fail to enjoy, because they are trapped in a prison of suffering they allow and must endure because they are assisting their perpetrator to keep things that way. You always have a choice in what you are feeling within your heart.