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Own Quotes by Mark Epstein
- When we seek happiness through accumulation, either outside of ourselves-from other people, relationships, or material goods-or from our own self-development, we are missing the essential…
- Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about our own minds…
- If things do not exist as fixed, independent entities, then how can they die? Our notion of death as the sudden expiration of that which…
- In building a path through the self to the far shore of awareness, we have to carefully pick our way through our own wilderness. If…
- Meditation is not a means of forgetting the ego; it is a method of using the ego to observe and tame its own manifestations.
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- Dreams are much better if they come by their own. — Nishan Panwar
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
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- It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take… — Emilie Autumn