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....

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....

There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there....

In building a path through the self to the far shore of awareness, we have to carefully pick our way....

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