The principal cause of suffering is craving. Once craving is eliminated, much suffering will be eliminated. Still more suffering will be eliminated once ignorance is eliminated. Both craving and ignorance are equally powerful defilement's that cause suffering.

~ Ven. Henepola Gunaratana ~

I cannot agree completely with this statement...initially when read, the reader assumes all their cravings are wrong...suppose what the writer is really saying is this...You crave something...love, a change, contentment, joy etc...you look outside your life to find it...perhaps it's not ego craving..but rather your soul waking up in the bed you have made that is dead...a life of monotony...no movement...no desires no passion...just change your life...if you feel this way so do the others in the ego fed relationship you have created...pretending you are happy putting up a front, misguided loyalty to an empty photograph....letting your self down is worse than letting others down...it means they have become dependent on you for their happiness... every being is responsible for their own joy...so just walk away...no guilt... be open to the possibilities and find joy within, be happy...be with people who support the joy and see the world past all the pain that the ego driven people in power see and create...run because your life depends on it....create your own world and be in the world not a product of it.The_Librarian 2016