"The picture we present to ourselves of who……" — Mark Epstein
"The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are."
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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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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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