Buddhism Quote by Mark Epstein Download Open image ““... everything had changed but nothing was altered.”” — Mark Epstein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Buddhism Enlightment
“Nothing else had changed. I had not changed. The world hadn’t changed. Yet nothing would be the same.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Everything has changed, and nothing has altered. Oh, what a fate.” — A.H. Septimius Copy Share Image
“Nothing that ever was changes. Yet nothing that is can ever be the same as what went before.” — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“Things are changing. But nothing changes. And still, there will be changes soon. ” — Michael Cretu Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The willingness to face traumas - be they large, small, primitive or fresh - is the key to healing from them. They may never… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The central premise of this book is that the Western psychological notion of what it means to have a self is flawed. — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are. — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are places that are very draining. There are places where there is another dimensional crossover but to a dimension that is not powerful… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The very best players, when they are practicing, put everything they've got into it. But then they leave it for a while. And it's… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Everyone will admire you when you do well. What a horrible thing to do to someone. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think the most miraculous thing is learning. I get out of the way and let the students learn. Then you get to watch… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Exactly. I think the original tantric Buddhists took notice of was some very wise old people who never studied in their youth, but took… — Joe Niemczura Copy Share Image
A human being can only absorb a small amount of the mystical kundalini, you can be exposed again and again to it, but it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One of the things I regret about not putting in that book or I think it's there but I didn't really elaborate on it,… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
My mom and my aunties are really devout Christians. My mom married a Muslim when I was 12, so I got teachings from both… — Tech N9ne Copy Share Image
Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The extraction of discrete parts of Chöd teachings from their broader philosophical contexts is symptomatic of how Chöd has been incorporated into and transmitted… — Michelle Sorensen Copy Share Image