The most common type of spiritual experience is being helpless and admitting there are bigger and more powerful forces out there. Feeling squashed, insignificant, unimportant, undesired, weak and cowardly, lonely.

To treat something like that, one must do something radically different. The irony is that it often leads to a similar state but of higher intensity.

It is too cliche to say keep pushing. It is too mean to say give up unless you mean surrendering most control to fate. Nothing really works aside from accepting whatever life put in front of you.