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Mark Epstein, MD, is an American author and psychiatrist who integrates Buddhism with Western psychotherapy. A meditation and yoga practitioner, he has written numerous books about ego, trauma, sexuality, and finding wholeness.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageIn order to change conditions outside ourselves, whether they concern the environment or relations with others, we must first change within ourselves.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageOne of the age-old truths about love is that while it offers unparalleled opportunities for union and the lifting of ego boundaries, it also washes us up on the shores of the loved one’s otherness. Sooner or later, love makes us feel inescapably separate.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageEnlightenment does not mean getting rid of anything. It means changing one’s frame of reference so that all things become enlightening.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageStillness does not mean the elimination of disturbances as much as a different way of viewing them.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWe reduce, concretize, or substantialize experiences or feelings, which are, in their very nature, fleeting or evanescent. In so doing, we define ourselves by our moods and by our thoughts. We do not just let ourselves be happy or sad, for instance; we must become a happy person or a sad one.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWhen we stop distancing ourselves from the pain in the world, our own or others’, we create the possibility of a new experience, one that often surprises because of how much joy, connection, or relief it yields. Destruction may continue, but humanity shines through.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe only way to find out where I was was to get out of the way and let myself happen.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe spiritual path means making a path rather than following one.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageAwakening does not mean a change in difficulty, it means a change in how those difficulties are met.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageTo free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves.

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