Meditation Quotes by Mark Epstein

Anger is sign that something needs to change.

— Mark Epstein

Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need,…

— Mark Epstein

“the Buddha may well have been the original psychoanalyst, or, at least, the first to use the mode of analytic inquiry that Freud was…

— Mark Epstein

The willingness to face traumas - be they large, small, primitive or fresh - is the key to healing from them. They may never…

— Mark Epstein

One of the age-old truths about love is that while it offers unparalleled opportunities for union and the lifting of ego boundaries, it also…

— Mark Epstein

The central premise of this book is that the Western psychological notion of what it means to have a self is flawed.

— Mark Epstein

“In making a path like the Buddha, we discover our own capacities for relationship. Doing this is like feeling our way in the dark.…

— Mark Epstein

“The teaching of the sexual tantras all come down to one point. Although desire, of whatever shape or form, seeks completion, there is another…

— Mark Epstein

The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.

— Mark Epstein

“A recently deceased American Zen master and navy veteran, John Daido Loori, used to say that those who think Buddhism is just about stillness…

— Mark Epstein

“The early parent-child environment, the balance between being and doing, lives on in the mind. Mindfulness offers an opportunity to see these patterns clearly.…

— Mark Epstein

If things do not exist as fixed, independent entities, then how can they die? Our notion of death as the sudden expiration of that…

— Mark Epstein

There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable from the…

— Mark Epstein

In building a path through the self to the far shore of awareness, we have to carefully pick our way through our own wilderness.…

— Mark Epstein

“With some gratitude, I realized that my awareness was now stronger than my neurosis. This did not mean that things would never go to…

— Mark Epstein