Jeff Foster is an English author and teacher who emphasizes presence and deep acceptance of experience in the present moment.
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We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern.
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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
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The strongest relationships are between two people who can live without each other but don’t want to.
Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.
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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
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If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
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Life’s work is to wake up, to let the things that enter into the circle wake you up rather than put you to sleep. The only way to do this is to open, be curious, and develop some sense of sympathy for everything that comes along, to get to know its nature and let it teach you what it will.
Empathetic listening is an awesome medication for the hurting heart.