Many people who experience illness imagine that everyone else is blissfully getting on with life in perfect health-and this illusion compounds their suffering. (Sam Harris)

Many people who experience illness imagine that everyone else is blissfully getting on with life in perfect health-and this illusion compounds their suffering.

Sam Harris

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