Do You Use Spirituality to Escape Pain?

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In all honesty, there’s very little that many of us do that don’t involve trying to escape pain and suffering. It’s human nature to avoid discomfort! We’ve survived as a species by minimizing and handling catastrophe, and that includes physical and emotional pains.

Psychology — the study of human behaviour — must’ve come about by wanting an explanation as to why people suffer. Religion came…