How to End Your Suffering & Get Unstuck in Life

Sage Gosner
3 min readJun 11, 2023

Pain x Resistance = suffering

Craving + Aversion = Suffering

True Presence is Bliss

It really can be as simple as that. All of your suffering stems from your resistance to pain. Suffering comes from Craving and Aversion. I want this. I don’t want this. Cease your craving and aversion and you will cease to suffer. It really is that simple.

This is why extremely pleasurable and enjoyable life experiences can actually be the cause of immense suffering. Perhaps we are in a wonderful relationship with someone we love, we are doing well financially, having business success. But things happen. People leave. Business fails. And the suffering occurs when we cling to what was rather than stepping into what is.

Be fully in the moment, and there will be no suffering.

Know that EVERYTHING is temporary. You are going to lose it all at some point.

But, there is a bit of a paradox in suffering.

We don’t want to suffer but suffering is actually one of the greatest things we have to push us forward in life. It drives us to change, to better ourselves, to pursue spiritual enlightenment, to create.

Imagine if you had absolutely no suffering in your life.

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Sage Gosner

Explorer Extraordinaire. Diving deep into the unknown. Love all.