"...the source of suffering is craving..."
Tom Dietvorst
"…Enlightenment, Awakening, liberation, is freedom from the shackles that keep us bound to a life of consumption. The disease of forever seeking something to satisfy us, and forever feeling intense dissatisfaction because of that seeking…
…True freedom is to be free from craving and that is only possible if we clearly see the ways in which our craving is fueled and the way our habits are formed around what we desire…
…We don’t want to live a perfect life we want to be happy with the life that’s right here. To desire anything other than what is here right now is the cause of suffering and this is the very mechanism of consumerism. Built on the idea that we can be better, we can have it easier, there is something more than this, we just need to try harder, buy more, seek more deeply, grasp more tightly all the while binding us more securely to the chains of suffering…"