"We are looking for a way to feel……" — Mark Epstein
"We are looking for a way to feel more real, but we do not realize that to feel more real we have to push ourselves further into the unknown."
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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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As my Buddhist teachers have shown me, wisdom emerges in the space around words as much as from language itself.
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
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I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.
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Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you…
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Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop…
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Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and…
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It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and…
— Neil Armstrong
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No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.
— Mary Kay Ash
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Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working…
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Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel…
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We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation…
— Julian Assange
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I feel like soundtrack music is almost like seeing the movie again, but with my ears.
— Dave Attell
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People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a…
— David Attenborough
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