Quotes by : Mark Epstein

Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the....

Awakening does not mean a change in difficulty, it means a change in how those difficulties are met.

[The Buddha] is not dividing himself into worthy and unworthy pieces; he is one being, indivisible, immune....

Enlightenment does not mean getting rid of anything. It means changing one's frame of reference so that....

When we stop distancing ourselves from the pain in the world, our own or others, we create the possibility....

While the primary function of formal Buddhist meditation is to create the possibility of the experience....

Trauma, if it doesn't destroy us, wakes us up both to our own relational capacities and to the suffering....

The teaching of the sexual tantras all come down to one point. Although desire, of whatever shape or....

We look to the accumulation of sensory pleasures to give our lives meaning. We have the ability now to....

To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really....