"To free desire from the tendency to cling,……" — Mark Epstein
"To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves."
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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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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 Cling Quotes
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one of 509 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is…
— James A. Baldwin
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Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.
— Dirk Benedict
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Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going…
— Sonny Bono
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We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of…
— Johannes Brahms
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It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And…
— Gabriel Byrne
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One nice thing about being a woman in Hollywood is that the women tend to be very close-knit. All of…
— Diablo Cody
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Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always…
— Seneca the Younger
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Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and…
— Emile Durkheim
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Nothing in my hand I bring, Simply to Thy cross I cling
— Augustus Toplady
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Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and…
— William Osler
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We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence;…
— Zhuangzi
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In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books.
— Elias Canetti
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