The symptoms and the illness are not the same thing. The illness exists long before the symptoms. Rather than being the illness, the symptoms are the beginning of its cure. The fact that they are unwanted makes them all the more a phenomenon of grace — a gift of God, a message from the unconscious.
Sickness begets chaos, which, through hard work and a touch of grace, leads to growth and resurrection.
The denial of suffering is, in fact a better definition of illness than its acceptance.
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