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There are Eastern religions that deny the reality of pain and suffering. They just try to wipe it away by saying it's all an illusion.

— Lee Strobel

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.

— Naomi Wolf

Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.

— John Desmond Bernal

Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.

— Karen Armstrong

Pain is the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being. Then those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death!

— Ram Dass

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

— Havelock Ellis

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

— John Sterling

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

— Keith Miller

Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.

— Charles Kingsley

✗Opposing Perspectives

All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.

— Karen Armstrong

For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.

— David Foster Wallace