Mark Epstein Quotes
- The central premise of this book is that the Western psychological notion of what it means to have a self is flawed.
- We are what we think, having become what we thought.
- Meditation is not a means of forgetting the ego; it is a method of using the ego to observe and tame its own manifestations.
- Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to…
- Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world, about which I…
- There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable from the original…