To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of … - Mark Epstein

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The future is going to be stranger and more various and more dynamic than anything people can imagine now. We will be extraordiarily tested. I wish us the best of luck!

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.

Come, Direct, Experience, Lives, Term, Warts

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When we seek happiness through accumulation, either outside of ourselves-from other people, relationships, or material goods-or from our own self-development, we are missing the essential point. In either case we are trying to find completion. But according to Buddhism, such a strategy is doomed. Completion comes not from adding another piece to ourselves but from surrendering our ideas of perfection.

Buddhism, Happiness, Letting Go, People, Perfection

I have come to see that our problem is that we don't know what happiness is. We confuse it with a life uncluttered by feelings of anxiety, rage, doubt, and sadness. But happiness is something entirely different. It's the ability to receive the pleasant without grasping and the unpleasant without condemning.

Anxiety, Come, Condemning, Feelings, Sadness

It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.

Give, Past, People, Talking

The willingness to face traumas - be they large, small, primitive or fresh - is the key to healing from them. They may never disappear in the way we think they should, but maybe they don’t need to. Trauma is an ineradicable aspect of life. We are human as a result of it, not in spite of it.

Healing, Keys, Result, Spite, Thinking, Way

Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression.

Abnormal Psychology, Depressed, Maybe, People, Thinking

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. . . you're waiting because you thought it would follow, you thought there would be some logic, perhaps, something to pull it all together but here we are in the weeds again, here we are in the bowels of the thing: your world doesn't make sense.

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Grant David McCracken

The future is going to be stranger and more various and more dynamic than anything people can imagine now. We will be extraordiarily tested. I wish us the best of luck!

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Nathan Eldon Tanner

Start right now to put into practice some of the things that have been taught to us today.

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But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.

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