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Yung Pueblo on How to Measure What Actually Matters in Life

The Daily Stoic

CHAPTER

The Difference Between Desire and Craving

There was a mistranslation of the word craven, so they used the word desire. But my teacher, I think, he says craving is a root of suffering. And what's the difference between desire and craving? Tension. There's this sort of tense manner of trying to approach a situation. When you don't get these things or they get taken away, then you just explode into greater suffering. That's when life has to almost takes it upon itself to disabuse you of that notion.

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