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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7dcc4b2 | Buddhism teaches us that we are not so much isolated individuals as we are overlapping environments, and that we have the capacity to know ourselves in this way. | Mark Epstein | ||
| 6377c27 | It must be asked here: why does the patient go on being worried by this that belongs to the past? The answer must be that the original experience of primitive agony cannot get into the past tense unless the ego can first gather it into its own present time experience.... | Mark Epstein | ||
| 6704415 | The early parent-child environment, the balance between being and doing, lives on in the mind. Mindfulness offers an opportunity to see these patterns clearly. In seeing them, in bringing them into the domain of reflective self-awareness, there is a possibility of emerging from their constraints. Choice emerges where before there was only blind and conditioned behavior. | Mark Epstein | ||
| bafe71b | The ability to see things the way they are, not to expect constant gratification but to understand that all things are limited, is what allows for personal growth. | Mark Epstein | ||
| 6bca80d | Whether or not the historical Buddha actually suffered from the kind of primitive agonies Winnicott expounded upon, the meditations he taught in the aftermath of his awakening "hold" the mind just as Winnicott described a mother "holding" an infant. In making the observational posture of mindfulness central to his technique, the Buddha established another version of "an auxiliary ego-function" in the psyches of his followers, one that enabl.. | Mark Epstein | ||
| 88d60b0 | After the ecstasy, it is said, comes the laundry. | Mark Epstein | ||
| 4cd5c1f | Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom, | Mark Epstein | ||
| 5ddbe58 | In the practice of mindfulness, the ego's usual insistence on control and security is deliberately and progressively undermined. This is accomplished by steadily shifting one's center of gravity from the thinking mind to a neutral object like the breath, or in the case of my workshop, the random sounds of the environment. | Mark Epstein | ||
| 5204db0 | The traumatized individual lives outside time, in his or her own separate reality, unable to relate to the consensual reality of others. The remembering quality of mindfulness counters this tendency. | Mark Epstein | ||
| 5959746 | The mind that realizes its own Buddha nature is said to be like clear space--it is empty and all-pervasive but also vividly aware. | Mark Epstein | ||
| 1d2aa61 | Trauma is a basic fact of life, according to the Buddha. It is not just an occasional thing that happens only to some people; it is there all the time. | Mark Epstein | ||
| e352dc1 | In order to change conditions outside ourselves, whether they concern the environment or relations with others, we must first change within ourselves. | Mark Epstein | ||
| b3c058f | The more we come to terms with our own separateness, taught the Buddha, the more we can feel the connections that are already there. | Mark Epstein | ||
| cfdf667 | Did Mom notice you right away?" He shook his head. "Nope." "So what did you do?" "Showed up." "Where?" "Wherever." "So you showed up wherever she was?" "Or wherever she might be." "That must've taken a lot of time," I said. Dad shrugged. "Worth it." | David Lubar | ||
| 151bed8 | She looked up and saw, high in the sky beyond the racing black clouds, a ragged scrap of blue sky. Enough to make a cat a pair of trousers. | Rosamunde Pilcher | ||
| 1adfe73 | Just remember that the most important thing is to be truthful to yourself. If you hang on to that, you won't go far wrong. | Rosamunde Pilcher | ||
| fadbea7 | He's threatening to breed polo ponies, but he's always been a man of great ideas, but little action, so I don't suppose he will. | Rosamunde Pilcher | ||
| c11b89d | happiness is making the most of what you have and riches is making the most of what you've got. | Rosamunde Pilcher | ||
| 3104bd7 | She stared at him, accepting for the first time the fact that personal tragedy is just that. Personal. Your own existence could fall to pieces but that did not mean that the rest of the world necessarily knew about it, or even bothered. | Rosamunde Pilcher | ||
| e7ebe03 | Elfrida, are you about to cry? - I might be. - Why? - Relief. | Rosamunde Pilcher | ||
| 633b9ec | On the contrary, she was aware only of a sort of timelessness, as though it was all part of a plan, a predestined design, conceived the day she was born. What was happening to her had been meant to happen, what was going to go on happening. Without any recognizable beginning, it did not seem possible that it could ever have an end. | Rosamunde Pilcher | ||
| cc3b7e1 | I started out as an idea, but I ended up something more. Not much more to be honest. It's not like I grow up to become some great war hero or any sort of all-important savior... | Brian K. Vaughan | ||
| 92c914a | Then why did you risk everything to be with him? Because your son is so goddamn beautiful. Ha. I assure you, looks aren't forever. | Brian K. Vaughan | ||
| f2e354a | Christ, I walk through an inferno unscatched, then singe my ass on the flight back." [...] "You guys are the ... the heart and brain of the Great Machine." "Yeah? Then you're the inflamed anus." "You're not the brain, by the way." | insults | Brian K. Vaughan | |
| 3c81a28 | Your writing , by the by. You split more infinitives than Gene Roddenberry. | Brian K. Vaughan | ||
| 306c1ce | Cookie monster speaks better English than you. | Brian K. Vaughan | ||
| 2e3237b | Sorry, ladies. I guess that's our cue. We like to storm into town, inflict maximum damage, and then disappear...like a KISS concert. | Brian K. Vaughan | ||
| 0747abe | Sai, negli ultimi mesi ho mangiato tante di quelle pesche in scatola, che ieri notte ho praticamente cacato una crostata. | Brian K. Vaughan | ||
| 9986e5f | Natalya: "It was our favorite sister of NASA who guilt me into putting my tits on line to rescuing you helpless ornaments." | humorous-insults insults | Brian K. Vaughan | |
| a72610e | The next morning, they cremated my grandfather in the belly of our ship. I still have a scarp of the outfit he made for me. These days, I use it as a bookmark. | Brian K. Vaughan | ||
| 67e477a | Come back with a healthy monkey, or don't come back at all. | Brian K. Vaughan | ||
| 47e4bb7 | If a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, then a family is more like a rope. We're lots of fragile little strands, and we survive by becoming hopelessly intertwined with each other. | Brian K. Vaughan | ||
| 3f0b2ab | Though we can never guarantee our people complete safety, we can send a message to those who seek to harm the free and the brave. You might knock us to the ground but you sure as hell won't keep us there. | perserverance | Brian K. Vaughan | |
| 8cb607d | If you find someone who can forgive all your bullshit... the least you can so is try to forgive them. | Brian K. Vaughan | ||
| c067b6d | Oh, fuck you, you self-righteous piece of...BALD | Brian K. Vaughan | ||
| 67111b7 | Marko: No matter what mistakes you've see your daddy make, violence---magical or otherwise---is never acceptable. Petrichor: Nonsense, Marko. Violence is often : in self-defense, the arts foreplay... Hazel: I want to four-play! | pacifism peace violence | Brian K. Vaughan | |
| 6013254 | You're right that not everything we do has to have some kind of social agenda, but that doesn't mean it can only be anesthetizing crap. | popular-culture social-agenda | Brian K. Vaughan | |
| 6f53816 | gonna need this if you go out on the next set of rounds." "Apart from the weather, how is it out there?" said Bob. "What kind of activity is taking place around town?" "Awful quiet," replied Fred, shrugging out of his own bulky slicker and carrying it over to hang it on a peg next to where Bob had hung his earlier. "The storm's got everybody sort of hunkered in close and tight. Only a handful of customers in Bullock's, nothing like it usual.. | William W. Johnstone | ||
| bf32c9b | He who wants to do more than he is able must admit defeat or retire. | Chrétien de Troyes | ||
| 9ba3818 | My good sir, is she your daughter then?' 'Yes, but don't pay any attention to what she says,' said the lord. 'She's a child - a silly, foolish thing.' 'Indeed,' said my lord Gawain, 'then I'd be very ill-mannered not to do what she wants. | Chrétien de Troyes | ||
| 030435f | The Kurds know--and never for a moment forget--what most people in the world have never understood. The nation of Iraq is not a centuries-old country with natural boundaries and an organically blended population. Instead, Iraq is a structure of artificial boundaries and unnaturally combined tribes and religions conceived by Europeans just after World War | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| a1474ae | Here is where it leads us. And let me make this clear: there is nothing that happened in that wounding experience with that church that is worth what is happening to you now. | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| a031ba6 | Beer, well respected and rightly consumed, can be a gift of God. It is one of his mysteries, which it was his delight to conceal and the glory of kings to search out. And men enjoy it to mark their days and celebrate their moments and stand with their brothers in the face of what life brings. | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| 35764e9 | Honorable men don't settle for lives of regret. | Stephen Mansfield |