Mark Epstein
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Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective on Wholeness
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1998
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Thoughts Without A Thinker: Psychotherapy From A Buddhist Perspective
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1995
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Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself
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2018
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The Trauma of Everyday Life
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2013
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Going on Being: Buddhism and the Way of Change
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2001
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Open to Desire: Embracing a Lust for Life - Insights from Buddhism and Psychotherapy
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2005
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Psychotherapy without the Self: A Buddhist Perspective
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2007
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What the Buddha Felt
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2001
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Going on Being: The Foundation of Buddhist Thought: Volume 2
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2010
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Essence of the Heart Sutra: The Dalai Lama's Heart of Wisdom Teachings
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2010
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“Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a fear of it. Desire takes one out of oneself, into the possibility or relationship, but it also takes one deeper into oneself. Anxiety turns one back on oneself, but only onto the self that is already known.”
― Open to Desire: Embracing a Lust for Life - Insights from Buddhism and Psychotherapy
― Open to Desire: Embracing a Lust for Life - Insights from Buddhism and Psychotherapy
“There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable from the original impulse that can only be described as sacred. Something in the person (dare we call it a soul?) wants to be free, and it seeks its freedom any way it can. ... There is a drive for transcendence that is implicit in even the most sensual of desires.”
― Open to Desire: Embracing a Lust for Life - Insights from Buddhism and Psychotherapy
― Open to Desire: Embracing a Lust for Life - Insights from Buddhism and Psychotherapy
“Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world, about which I felt a lot of confusion and shame, and let me understand it more completely. Perhaps the best way to phrase it is to say that meditation showed me that the other side of anxiety is desire. They exist in relationship to each other, not independently.”
― Open to Desire: Embracing a Lust for Life - Insights from Buddhism and Psychotherapy
― Open to Desire: Embracing a Lust for Life - Insights from Buddhism and Psychotherapy
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