Quotes by Mark Epstein, Open to Desire: Embracing a Lust for Life - Insights from Buddhism and Psychotherapy

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Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire im — Mark Epstein, Open to Desire: Embracing a Lust for Life - Insights from Buddhism and Psychotherapy
The teaching of the sexual tantras all come down to one point. Although desire, of whatever shape or form, seeks complet — Mark Epstein, Open to Desire: Embracing a Lust for Life - Insights from Buddhism and Psychotherapy
While the primary function of formal Buddhist meditation is to create the possibility of the experience of "being," my w — Mark Epstein, 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 whi — Mark Epstein, 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 s — Mark Epstein, Open to Desire: Embracing a Lust for Life - Insights from Buddhism and Psychotherapy