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Mark Epstein Quotes

Anger is sign that something needs to change Picture Quote #1
Enlightenment does not mean getting rid of anything. It means changing one’s frame of reference so that all things become enlightening Picture Quote #1
Awakening does not mean a change in difficulty, it means a change in how those difficulties are met Picture Quote #1
When we seek happiness through accumulation, either outside of ourselves-from other people, relationships, or material goods-or from our own self-development, we are missing the essential point. In either case we are trying to find completion. But according to Buddhism, such a strategy is doomed. Completion comes not from adding another piece to ourselves but from surrendering our ideas of perfection Picture Quote #1
Meditation is not a means of forgetting the ego; it is a method of using the ego to observe and tame its own manifestations Picture Quote #1
We are what we think, having become what we thought Picture Quote #1
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Uncovering your real desires can be terrifying. It can also set you spectacularly free Picture Quote #1
Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression Picture Quote #1
If things do not exist as fixed, independent entities, then how can they die? Our notion of death as the sudden expiration of that which was once so real starts to unwind. If things do not exist in their own right and are flickering rather than static, then we can no longer fear their ultimate demise. We may fear their instability, or their emptiness, but the looming threat of death starts to seem absurd. Things are constantly dying, we find. Or rather, they are constantly in flux, arising and passing away with each moment of consciousness Picture Quote #1
To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really are, warts and all Picture Quote #1
To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves Picture Quote #1
In building a path through the self to the far shore of awareness, we have to carefully pick our way through our own wilderness. If we can put our minds into a place of surrender, we will have an easier time feeling the contours of the land. We do not have to break our way through as much as we have to find our way around the major obstacles. We do not have to cure every neurosis, we just have to learn how not to be caught by them Picture Quote #1
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The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are Picture Quote #1
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 Picture Quote #1
It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past Picture Quote #1
Trauma never goes away completely, it changes perhaps, softens some with time, but never completely goes away Picture Quote #1
It is exceedingly difficult to maintain a sense of absence without turning that absence into some kind of presence Picture Quote #1
I have come to see that our problem is that we don’t know what happiness is. We confuse it with a life uncluttered by feelings of anxiety, rage, doubt, and sadness. But happiness is something entirely different. It’s the ability to receive the pleasant without grasping and the unpleasant without condemning Picture Quote #1
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Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about our own minds that allows us to embrace life fully Picture Quote #1
Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world, about which I felt a lot of confusion and shame, and let me understand it more completely. Perhaps the best way to phrase it is to say that meditation showed me that the other side of anxiety is desire. They exist in relationship to each other, not independently Picture Quote #1
Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a fear of it. Desire takes one out of oneself, into the possibility or relationship, but it also takes one deeper into oneself. Anxiety turns one back on oneself, but only onto the self that is already known Picture Quote #1
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Anger is sign that something needs to change  (Mark Epstein Quotes) Enlightenment does not mean getting rid of anything. It means changing one’s frame of reference so that all things become enlightening.  (Mark Epstein Quotes) Awakening does not mean a change in difficulty, it means a change in how those difficulties are met.  (Mark Epstein Quotes) When we seek happiness through accumulation, either outside of ourselves-from other people, relationships, or material goods-or from our own self-development, we are missing the essential point. In either case we are trying to find completion. But according to Buddhism, such a strategy is doomed. Completion comes not from adding another piece to ourselves but from surrendering our ideas of perfection  (Mark Epstein Quotes) Meditation is not a means of forgetting the ego; it is a method of using the ego to observe and tame its own manifestations  (Mark Epstein Quotes) We are what we think, having become what we thought  (Mark Epstein Quotes) Uncovering your real desires can be terrifying. It can also set you spectacularly free  (Mark Epstein Quotes) Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression  (Mark Epstein Quotes) If things do not exist as fixed, independent entities, then how can they die? Our notion of death as the sudden expiration of that which was once so real starts to unwind. If things do not exist in their own right and are flickering rather than static, then we can no longer fear their ultimate demise. We may fear their instability, or their emptiness, but the looming threat of death starts to seem absurd. Things are constantly dying, we find. Or rather, they are constantly in flux, arising and passing away with each moment of consciousness  (Mark Epstein Quotes) To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really are, warts and all  (Mark Epstein Quotes) To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves  (Mark Epstein Quotes) In building a path through the self to the far shore of awareness, we have to carefully pick our way through our own wilderness. If we can put our minds into a place of surrender, we will have an easier time feeling the contours of the land. We do not have to break our way through as much as we have to find our way around the major obstacles. We do not have to cure every neurosis, we just have to learn how not to be caught by them  (Mark Epstein Quotes) The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are  (Mark Epstein Quotes) 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  (Mark Epstein Quotes) It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past  (Mark Epstein Quotes) Trauma never goes away completely, it changes perhaps, softens some with time, but never completely goes away  (Mark Epstein Quotes) It is exceedingly difficult to maintain a sense of absence without turning that absence into some kind of presence  (Mark Epstein Quotes) I have come to see that our problem is that we don’t know what happiness is. We confuse it with a life uncluttered by feelings of anxiety, rage, doubt, and sadness. But happiness is something entirely different. It’s the ability to receive the pleasant without grasping and the unpleasant without condemning  (Mark Epstein Quotes) Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about our own minds that allows us to embrace life fully  (Mark Epstein Quotes) Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world, about which I felt a lot of confusion and shame, and let me understand it more completely. Perhaps the best way to phrase it is to say that meditation showed me that the other side of anxiety is desire. They exist in relationship to each other, not independently  (Mark Epstein Quotes) Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a fear of it. Desire takes one out of oneself, into the possibility or relationship, but it also takes one deeper into oneself. Anxiety turns one back on oneself, but only onto the self that is already known  (Mark Epstein Quotes)