"The purpose of religion is ultimately to help us grow as human beings. Through that growth, we can overcome and eliminate the problems, strife, frustration and suffering that right now might appear unsurmountable to us. Part of growing involves finding answers to the problems themselves, but another part of it involves all of us developing to a higher level. When we do that, our problems become comparatively smaller."
Yes, that sounds like a rewrite of my previous post. However, I just today found this quote in a magazine (translated from Japanese, so it may have appeared even clearer in original).
Another fascinating data point is that the quote is the first paragraph of the main article in the October issue, which was being read by people around the world shortly before and during the time I wrote my little piece.
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