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Continuous creation is to be thought of not only as a series of successive acts of creation, but also as the eternal presence of the one creative act.
— Carl Jung
After five minutes, or ten, or fifteen - it doesn't matter - open your eyes and resume your day. For a moment or two things might seem more alive.
— Mark Epstein
Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom,
— Mark Epstein
Give me a man who steals a little and I can make money
— Sam Giancana
To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves.
— Mark Epstein
It is exceedingly difficult to maintain a sense of absence without turning that absence into some kind of presence
— Mark Epstein
Uncovering your real desires can be terrifying. It can also set you spectacularly free.
— Mark Epstein
Why don't we bring everyone up to be caring and compassionate, to believe that we are connected with everyone and everything around us?
— Eve Ensler
As my Buddhist teachers have shown me, wisdom emerges in the space around words as much as from language itself.
— Mark Epstein
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
Awakening does not mean a change in difficulty, it means a change in how those difficulties are met.
— Mark Epstein
Everybody wants to know what I'm on. What am I on? I'm on my bike busting my ass six hours a day. What are you on?
— Lance Armstrong
Enlightenment does not mean getting rid of anything. It means changing one's frame of reference so that all things become enlightening.
— Mark Epstein
Intimacy puts us in touch with fragility, he realized, and the acceptance of fragility opens us to intimacy.
— Mark Epstein
The only way to find out where I was was to get out of the way and let myself happen.
— Mark Epstein
Oh, my god, you moron, she's one of us. She's a Keeper! Humans don't spit bullets back out! I gotta go get Cormac. This isn't good.
— Donna Augustine
We are what we think, having become what we thought.
— Mark Epstein
No matter what happens, no matter how bad things get, as long as we have love, there's always hope for salvation.
— Travis Luedke
Anger is sign that something needs to change.
— Mark Epstein
Trauma never goes away completely, it changes perhaps, softens some with time, but never completely goes away.
— Mark Epstein
The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.
— Mark Epstein
These people are a part of me. And they are a part of America, this country that I love.
— Barack Obama
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
So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.
— Roberto Bolano
The Way Out Is Through
— Mark Epstein
The central premise of this book is that the Western psychological notion of what it means to have a self is flawed.
— Mark Epstein
I have to get out," I told Sam. "I need to get away. Will you go with me?" "Anywhere," he said and kissed me.
— Jodi Meadows
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
I would rather make my name then inherit it.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
When times are bad smile, when times are good laugh.
— James Turner
Divinity is not a fashion. It is the way of life. It is the need of your being. You have to become that.
— Nirmala Srivastava
Completion comes not from adding another piece to ourselves but from surrendering our ideas of perfection.
— Mark Epstein
The more mature we are, the more receptive we are.
— Marianne Williamson