Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart’s willingness to feel whatever is present.
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"How I Freed Myself From Ego In 7 Days! (And You Can Too!)" Jeff Foster
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Jeff Foster — 2015
Jeff Foster talks about exhaustion with spiritual seeking; how the mind is always seeking something 'out there', when the real treasure is much closer.
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Jeff Foster talks about exhaustion with spiritual seeking; how the mind is always seeking something 'out there', when the real treasure is much closer.
06:00 min
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