Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness

All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.

When you truly feel this equal love for all, when your heart has expanded so much that it embraces the whole of creation, you will certainly not feel like giving up this or that. You will simply drop off from secular life as a ripe fruit drops from the branch of a tree. You will feel that the whole world is your home.

Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you.

Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.

See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.

The solution to your problem is to see who has it.