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

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

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

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 is exceedingly difficult to maintain a sense of absence without turning that absence into some kind of presence

- Mark Epstein

Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression.

- 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

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

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