"Buddhism teaches us that happiness does not come……" — Mark Epstein
"Buddhism teaches us that happiness does not come from any kind of acquisitiveness, be it material or psychological. Happiness comes from letting go. In Buddhism, the impenetrable, separate, and individuated self is more of the problem than the solution."
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26 Quotes by Mark Epstein
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Uncovering your real desires can be terrifying. It can also set you spectacularly free.
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While the primary function of formal Buddhist meditation is to create the possibility of the experience of "being," my work…
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When we seek happiness through accumulation, either outside of ourselves-from other people, relationships, or material goods-or from our own self-development,…
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Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something…
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If things do not exist as fixed, independent entities, then how can they die? Our notion of death as the…
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To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as…
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To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves.
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In building a path through the self to the far shore of awareness, we have to carefully pick our way…
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The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.
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Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression.
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We are looking for a way to feel more real, but we do not realize that to feel more real…
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As my Buddhist teachers have shown me, wisdom emerges in the space around words as much as from language itself.
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More Acquisitiveness Quotes
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Stubborn selfishness leads otherwise good people to fight over herds, patches of sand, and strippings of milk. All this results…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Economic activity is no longer an adversarial contest between embattled sellers and buyers "In the distributed economy, where collaboration trumps…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of…
— William Ralph Inge
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Collecting at its best is very far from mere acquisitiveness; it may become one of the most humanistic of occupations,…
— Arthur Davison Ficke
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It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and…
— John Steinbeck
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