Jeff Foster is an English author and teacher who emphasizes presence and deep acceptance of experience in the present moment.
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Let life kick you off your pedestal time and time again, until you lose all interest in being on pedestals.
Life will eventually bring you to your knees. Either you’ll be on your knees cursing the universe and begging for a different life, or you’ll be brought to your knees by gratitude and awe, deeply embracing the life that you have, too overwhelmed by the beauty of it all to stand or even speak.
Stop thinking your way through life, always trying to work it out before living it. Life is to be lived, not analyzed to death.
Perhaps our dreams are there to be broken, and our plans are there to crumble, and our tomorrows are there to dissolve into todays, and perhaps all of this is all a giant invitation to wake up from the dream of separation, to awaken from the mirage of control, and embrace whole-heartedly what is...
Oh, sweet little boy, beloved little girl, you are so overwhelmed by life sometimes, I know, by the enormity of it all, by the vastness of the possibilities, by the myriad of perspectives available to you.
Don’t become a spiritual zombie, devoid of passion and deep human feeling. Let spirituality become a celebration of your uniqueness rather than a repression of it. Never lose your quirkiness, your strangeness, your weirdness—your unique and irreplaceable flavour.
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Let life kick you off your pedestal time and time again, until you lose all interest in being on pedestals.
