"Meditation is not a means of forgetting the……" — Mark Epstein
"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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26 Quotes by Mark Epstein
Mark Epstein has 26 quotes on this site.
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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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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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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They…
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I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally…
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous…
— Alan Ball
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We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where…
— Afrika Bambaataa
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A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom…
— Roseanne Barr
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The spotlight will always be on me, but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by.
— David Beckham
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If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
— Arnold Bennett
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But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too…
— Anna Benson
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At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life…
— Annie Besant
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You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are…
— Jello Biafra
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Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one…
— Theodor Adorno
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