Glossary · Term
Pain
A localized sensory perception that manifests in the body; it is what the body feels when it is injured or wants to send a signal that it needs care.
In the Foundation's Topics
Everything that brings suffering, anguish, pain, or illness does so because we are going against the Laws, and through that I will come to recognize them.
Confronting it with their pretensions of freedom, independence, and self-sufficiency, only to finally discover that the only way to be free of all pain, conflict, and suffering is to obey the Law.
For example, keeping a memento of an ancestor is a sentimental attachment (although we can also remember those who are no longer with us without pain), not a value, and, unlike a value, it can cause us pain if we lose it, for example.