"Meditation is not a means of forgetting the ego; it is a method of using the ego to observe and tame its own manifestations."

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Source : Mark Epstein (2013). “Thoughts Without A Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective”, p.57, Basic Books

Mark Epstein

#Mean Quotes #Meditation Quotes #Ego Quotes

“If you don't know your blood pressure, it's like not knowing the value of your company.”
“Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.”
“But then I think about my sister and what a shell-less turtle she was and how she wanted me to be one too. C'mon, Lennie, she used to say to me at least ten times a day. C'mon Len. And that makes me feel better, like it's her life rather than her death that is now teaching me how to be, who to be.”

Source : Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.97, Penguin
“I got a journalism degree. I started doing journalism - I interned at 'Cosmopolitan' magazine in the 1970s, which probably wasn't the best place for me, and I spent six or nine months freelancing. Anyway, I wasn't that good at it.”
“It matters what you believe. Some beliefs are like walled gardens. They encourage exclusiveness and the feeling of being especially privileged. Other beliefs are expansive and lead the way into wider and deeper sympathies.”
“I sometimes found myself more comfortable around my TV family than I did with my own parents and sister.”
“Love me little, love me long.”
“I don't like a kind of workshop that is about editing--I don't want to sit there and be an editor. I don't want to tell someone how to "fix" a poem.”

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