“We reduce, concretize, or substantialize experiences or feelings, which are, in their very nature, fleeting or evanescent. In so doing, we define… — Mark Epstein Happiness Copy Share Image
Buddhism teaches us that happiness does not come from any kind of acquisitiveness, be it material or psychological. Happiness comes from letting… — Mark Epstein Buddhism Copy Share Image
As my Buddhist teachers have shown me, wisdom emerges in the space around words as much as from language itself. — Mark Epstein Buddhism Copy Share Image
“I began to think that there was something awesome about my timing. How was it that, at the exact moment of my… — Mark Epstein Awe Copy Share Image
Uncovering your real desires can be terrifying. It can also set you spectacularly free. — Mark Epstein Consciousness Copy Share Image
“In coping with the world, we come to identify only with our compensatory selves and our reactive minds. We build up our… — Mark Epstein Defenses Copy Share Image
“Like meditation, psychotherapy has the potential to reveal how much of our thinking is an artificial construaction designed to help us cope… — Mark Epstein Artificial Copy Share Image
“We all want to be normal. Life, even normal life, is arduous, demanding, and ultimately threatening. We all have to deal with… — Mark Epstein Common Copy Share Image
Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression. — Mark Epstein Abnormal psychology Copy Share Image
Meditation is not a means of forgetting the ego; it is a method of using the ego to observe and tame its… — Mark Epstein Ego Copy Share Image
We are looking for a way to feel more real, but we do not realize that to feel more real we have… — Mark Epstein Feels Copy Share Image
“Just as mind rises up and rebels at un unskillful attempt to subdue it in meditation, a relationship will fall apart if… — Mark Epstein Buddhism Copy Share Image
To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves. — Mark Epstein Desire Copy Share Image
Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world,… — Mark Epstein Anxiety Copy Share Image
It is exceedingly difficult to maintain a sense of absence without turning that absence into some kind of presence — Mark Epstein Absence Copy Share Image
