Famous Mark Epstein Quotes

  • 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

    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

  • The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are. – Mark Epstein

    The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.– Mark Epstein

  • Enlightenment does not mean getting rid of anything. It means changing one’s frame of reference so that all things become enlightening. – Mark Epstein

    Enlightenment does not mean getting rid of anything. It means changing one’s frame of reference so that all things become enlightening.– Mark Epstein

  • Awakening does not mean a change in difficulty, it means a change in how those difficulties are met. – Mark Epstein

    Awakening does not mean a change in difficulty, it means a change in how those difficulties are met.– Mark Epstein