"Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe……" — Mark Epstein
"Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression."
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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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Buddhism teaches us that happiness does not come from any kind of acquisitiveness, be it material or psychological. Happiness comes…
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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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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 Depressed Quotes
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I couldn't be with someone who is depressed all the time.
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If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go…
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Retirement from work has depressed many a man and hastened his death.
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I just got tired of being sick and tired and feeling down. Unfortunately, you don't realize this until you're getting…
— Steven Adler
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Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty…
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As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me…
— Mary J. Blige
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Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down…
— Mary J. Blige
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When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.
— Elayne Boosler
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My mum taught me to knit when I was a child, and I turn to it, for some weird reason,…
— Jo Brand
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There is a difference between executive producing and producing. Producing, you have no life for two years. You take everything…
— Sandra Bullock
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I used to get out of bed sometimes and feel depressed and watched a lot of reruns on TV to…
— Sandra Bullock
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The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed…
— David Cameron
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