Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. Wait. What? I saw this quote on a support group forum today that was written by a fellow trauma survivor. It's a somewhat popular buddhist quote attributed to Haruki Murakami that seems to have been given a final stamp of approval and maybe even twisted and distorted a bit by a lot of people who like to shout it from the rooftops as if it's the real deal, honest-to-goodness Truth with a capital T. Maybe you've seen it before, as well

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