“While a puzzle can be solved with just one or two missing pieces, pain is
much more complicated, and talking about pain, especially chronic pain,
as if it has an easy answer can be irresponsibly deceptive.

Morris suggests that by understanding pain as a mystery, we can respect its complexity and recognize the alienating experience of living in pain. “Mysteries,” he writes, “introduce us to unusual states of being… mysteries disturb the world we take for granted.”