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

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Source : Mark Epstein (2013). “Thoughts Without A Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective”, p.46, Basic Books

Mark Epstein

#Kind Quotes #Absence Quotes #Difficult Quotes

“Inflict the least possible permanent injury, for the enemy of to-day is the customer of the morrow and the ally of the future”
“Everything is done out of respect, whether it's a cheer or a boo.”
“To the hard-working people who set a little bit aside each month, to provide for their children, or to fund their own retirement, I say: you should be rewarded not punished.”
“At Facebook we feel a lot of affinity not just for this community but for any community that is trying to do what Davos is trying to do, which is to share information. And Davos is doing it in a particular way - I think the Facebook approach is obviously more broad-based, we're trying to include everyone in the world. But the goal is the same: bring people together, to share information and make the world more connected, and have people have a deeper understanding of themselves, others, the communities of which they want to be a part and can be a part.”
“Doubt is a virus that attacks our self-esteem, productivity and confidence. Faith that you and your life are perfectly unfolding is the strongest vaccine.”

Source : FaceBook post by Sean Stephenson from Jan 11, 2011
“The unnatural and the strange have a perfume of their own”
“I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does.”
“Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own.”

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