"As my Buddhist teachers have shown me, wisdom……" — Mark Epstein
"As my Buddhist teachers have shown me, wisdom emerges in the space around words as much as from language itself."
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26 Quotes by Mark Epstein
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- Buddhism teaches us that happiness does not come from any kind of acquisitiveness, be it material or psychological. Happiness comes…
- When we seek happiness through accumulation, either outside of ourselves-from other people, relationships, or material goods-or from our own self-development,…
- Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something…
- If things do not exist as fixed, independent entities, then how can they die? Our notion of death as the…
- To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as…
- To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves.
- In building a path through the self to the far shore of awareness, we have to carefully pick our way…
- The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.
- Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression.
- We are looking for a way to feel more real, but we do not realize that to feel more real…
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