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The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

Approximate author period: c. 1970 AD · modern

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M. Scott Peck
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Approximate author period: c. 1970 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for M. Scott Peck: life dates 1936 to 2005. Wikidata Q663928, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q663928 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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