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> [“In the cosmology of Western Christians, life’s challenges provide opportunities to become stronger and to have a closer relationship with God. The burdens God sends to Christians in the Western world are incitements to self-improvement. The comforts that Amina found…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ethan-watters/in-the-cosmology-of-western-christians-life-s-challenges-provide/)

[Ethan Watters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ethan-watters/)

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## More by Ethan Watters

> [“Shorter believes that psychosomatic illnesses (such as leg paralysis at the turn of the twentieth century or multiple personality disorder at the turn of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ethan-watters/shorter-believes-that-psychosomatic-illnesses-such-as-leg-paralysis/)

[Ethan Watters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ethan-watters/)

> [“Looking at ourselves through the eyes of those living in places where human tragedy is still embedded in complex religious and cultural narratives, we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ethan-watters/looking-at-ourselves-through-the-eyes-of-those-living-in-places-where/)

[Ethan Watters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ethan-watters/)

> [“Behind the promotion of Western ideas of mental health and healing lies a variety of cultural assumptions about human nature itself. Westerners share, for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ethan-watters/behind-the-promotion-of-western-ideas-of-mental-health-and-healing/)

[Ethan Watters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ethan-watters/)

> [“Because our culture so highly values an illusion of self-control and control of circumstance, we become abject when contemplating mentation that seems more changeable,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ethan-watters/because-our-culture-so-highly-values-an-illusion-of-self-control-and/)

[Ethan Watters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ethan-watters/)

> [“Because we cannot see the roads we have not taken, we become, by defaults, advocates for the path our life is on.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ethan-watters/because-we-cannot-see-the-roads-we-have-not-taken-we-become-by/)

[Ethan Watters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ethan-watters/)

> [“In the cosmology of Western Christians, life’s challenges provide opportunities to become stronger and to have a closer relationship with God. The burdens God…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ethan-watters/in-the-cosmology-of-western-christians-life-s-challenges-provide/)

[Ethan Watters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ethan-watters/)

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