If aspects of the person remain undigested-cut off, denied, projected, rejected, indulged, or otherwise unassimilated-they become the points around which the core forces of greed, hatred and delusion attach themselves.
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 mi… - Mark Epstein
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 mi…
- Mark Epstein
The willingness to face traumas - be they large, small, primitive or fresh - is the key to healing from them. They may never disappear in the way we … - Mark Epstein
The willingness to face traumas - be they large, small, primitive or fresh - is the key to healing from them. They may never disappear in the way we …
Buddhism teaches us that happiness does not come from any kind of acquisitiveness, be it material or psychological. Happiness comes from letting go. … - Mark Epstein
Buddhism teaches us that happiness does not come from any kind of acquisitiveness, be it material or psychological. Happiness comes from letting go. …
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, doub… - Mark Epstein
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, doub…
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
Meditation is not a means of forgetting the ego; it is a method of using the ego to observe and tame its own manifestations.
It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past. - Mark Epstein
It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.
It is exceedingly difficult to maintain a sense of absence without turning that absence into some kind of presence - Mark Epstein
It is exceedingly difficult to maintain a sense of absence without turning that absence into some kind of presence
Anger is sign that something needs to change. - Mark Epstein
Anger is sign that something needs to change.
There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable from the original … - Mark Epstein
There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable from the original …
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