75 quotes by Jeff Foster

1. “This moment is not life waiting to happen, goals waiting to be achieved, words waiting to be spoken, connections waiting to be made, regrets waiting to evaporate, aliveness waiting to be felt, enlightenment waiting to be gained. No. Nothing is waiting. This is it. This moment is life.” ― Jeff Foster
2. “Leave everything undefined, including yourself. Befriend uncertainty. Fall in love with mystery. Kneel at the altar of not knowing. Give your questions time to breathe. The answers will find you.” – Jeff Foster
3. “Less is the new more.” – Jeff Foster
4. “Wholeness is not something that ‘happens’ one day, it is that which is already present. Life itself – what you really are, beyond your image of yourself – is already whole.” – Jeff Foster
5. “All your problems are just thoughts. And thoughts are not a problem.” – Jeff Foster
6. “Fall in love with where you are. Turn towards this – a sacred moment, unrepeatable. Trust the ebb and flow of things. Say yes to uncertainty and the unresolvedness of your life. Come out of stories and second-hand dreams and remember the place where breathing happens. Here. Now.” – Jeff Foster
7. “Life is just a constant invitation to find out how vast you are.” – Jeff Foster
8. “The word “depressed” is spoken phonetically as “deep rest.” We can view depression not as a mental illness, but on a deeper level, as a profound (and very misunderstood) state of deep rest, entered into when we are completely exhausted by the weight of our own identity. It is an unconscious loss of interest in our story. It is so very close to awakening – but unfortunately rarely understood as such. Or as one friend put it, “depression has awakening built-in…” – Jeff Foster
9. “Love is the answer. The question is unimportant.” – Jeff Foster
10. “Stop trying to love yourself. Simply be the self that loves.” – Jeff Foster
11. “Nothing can make you happy until Nothing can make you happy.” – Jeff Foster
12. “Stop waiting for others to make you happy. You’ll be waiting forever. Discover your natural happiness. The in-built contentment that doesn’t depend on content.” – Jeff Foster
13. “We are not in control. Everything is dying from the moment it is born, as the Buddha taught. Everything is made of crystal. And therein lies our greatest sorrow and deepest depression, but also our greatest potential for joy and liberation.” – Jeff Foster
14. “Don’t mistake the weather of your mind for the sky of your being.” – Jeff Foster
15. “Do not search for the answer. It will find you in the perfect moment, when your defenses are down. It knows where you live.” – Jeff Foster
16. “The greatest change seems to happen when we stop trying to change and sink creatively into the mystery of the moment.” – Jeff Foster
17. “One of the biggest illusions: something outside of myself is going to bring me home.” – Jeff Foster
18. “Sensitive ones bring some gentleness into this weary world! Shine on with courageous sensitivity! You are the light bearers!” – Jeff Foster
19. “This moment, whatever shape it takes, has no opposite. Investigate this very deeply, for this insight is the key to unimaginable peace.” – Jeff Foster
20. “There are two core fears: losing what you have, and not getting what you want. There is one solution: Falling in love with where you are.” – Jeff Foster
21. “True happiness has no opposite, for it embraces all. It is your nature, not some far-off utopia. It is you, before you were named, before you learned to doubt yourself.” – Jeff Foster
22. “Relax. Answers will come, in time. Or perhaps the unnecessary questions will fall away.” – Jeff Foster
23. “The word “depressed” is spoken phonetically as “deep rest”. We can view depression not as a mental illness, but on a deeper level, as a profound (and very misunderstood) state of deep rest, entered into when we are completely exhausted by the weight of our own identity.” – Jeff Foster
24. “Trying to fall in love is like trying to make your heart beat backwards. It can’t be done. I am already what you are. And so we don’t fall in love; we simply notice that we are in love already, and always have been. We don’t fall in love; it is the ‘we’, the ‘me’ and the ‘you’, that ‘in-between’, that falls away in love, revealing the intimacy of our own absence. We are all so deeply in love that we don’t realize it.” – Jeff Foster
25. “The more you try to fix it, the more you reinforce the belief that it’s broken.” – Jeff Foster
26. “Accept your non-acceptance. Forgive your inability to forgive. Surrender to your lack of surrender. This is the pathless path!” – Jeff Foster
27. “Breathe in the moment, exactly as it is. Love changes everything, by leaving everything unchanged.” – Jeff Foster
28. “The most unexpectedly beautiful gifts can come from a deep and total embrace of helplessness.” – Jeff Foster
29. “Gentleness. Be gentle in how you react to your spouse. Be gentle in how you speak to them; never using harsh or hurtful words intentionally. Finally, be gentle in how you assume their perspective.” – Jeff Foster
30. “Today…Forget your plans of fabulous perfection.” – Jeff Foster
31. “How to accept life? Firstly, realize that you can’t. And then discover that life, appearing as this moment, is already accepted, as it is.” – Jeff Foster
32. “Just as the ocean allows every wave, Awareness allows every thought and feeling.” – Jeff Foster
33. “Between ‘What was’ and ‘What will be’ there is a vast space called Now. It is your true home.” – Jeff Foster
34. “Somehow we end up where we need to be.” – Jeff Foster
35. “My guru is this moment. My lineage is this moment. My spiritual path is this moment. And my home is this moment.” – Jeff Foster
36. “Beautiful things happen in your life when you distance yourself from all the negativity and drama.” – Jeff Foster
37. “Regret is the longing to change the past. Fear is the desire to control the future. Peace is the surrender to now.” – Jeff Foster
38. “True spirituality is not a comfort – it is a furnace, burning up your cherished homes and dreams, your outdated beliefs about life, the universe and everything.” – Jeff Foster
39. “Can this moment be deeply allowed? and if it can’t can that be allowed too?” – Jeff Foster
40. “Never come to a conclusion about anyone. They will always surprise you. For they are alive, and ever-changing, with no fixed ‘self’ to call their own. They are a cast of thousands. A shape-shifter. A parade of masks. Tragic, comic, fierce, ecstatic, numb. Do not confuse them with their appearance! See the Universal Self underneath. Breathe. Stay open. You will be humbled.” – Jeff Foster
41. “You are never ‘in’ or ‘out’ of the now. You are the now.” – Jeff Foster
42. “What is life – and its fulfillment – is always now? Then, what’s next?” – Jeff Foster
43. “Like clouds floating through the sky, like drops of rain trickling down the window pane, thoughts aren’t really a problem at all. Thoughts are only a problem when an individual want to be free of them.” – Jeff Foster
44. “Love is all that matters. The rain falls, stars explode in silence somewhere out in the vastness of space, and here on this tiny planet someone called earth, sometimes we meet and hold each other.” – Jeff Foster
45. “It is about celebration of the uniqueness of who you are and recognizing our underlying shared essence.” – Jeff Foster
46. “Essence never changes and cannot be destroyed, so when you die, you don’t really die at all. You just become gloriously naked.” – Jeff Foster
47. “Consciousness has no religion and no nationality.” – Jeff Foster
48. “Even though we sometimes forget, or do not admit it, we all live here, as we did when we were children, in this limitless space of profound not knowing, and wonder, endless wonder.” – Jeff Foster
49. “There are no conditions to love. And no end to its depths.” – Jeff Foster
50. “Life is a moment by moment adventure to be lived, not a story to be completed or an image to be upheld. Conclusions are not your job. In this moment, answers are not required.” – Jeff Foster
51. “How will you ever know what kind of dance you’re capable of dancing until you actually dance?”  – Jeff Foster
52. “Life is a never-ending invitation to discover freedom in everything you’re running from.” – Jeff Foster
53. “What is meditation? Pure fascination with this moment, exactly as it is. Not adding anything. Not taking anything away. No goal. No seeking. No meditator.” – Jeff Foster
54. “You are a forgotten heir to a glorious kingdom. Reclaim it. Make contact with this moment.” – Jeff Foster
55. “Acceptance is not toleration or passivity – it makes you radically alive and passionately engaged with this astonishing dream-world.” – Jeff Foster
56. “You cannot be fixed you were never broken.” – Jeff Foster
57. “Wanting things to disappear piles suffering on top of suffering.” – Jeff Foster
58. “Love breaks down the non-existent walls of separation.” – Jeff Foster
59. “You know you’re on the right path when the old path dissolves in front of you…and you start trusting yourself completely.” – Jeff Foster
60. “Heaven is this moment. Hell is the burning desire for this moment to be different. It’s that simple.” – Jeff Foster
61. ‘We long to be in profound contact with where we are.” – Jeff Foster
62. “Regret is rewind – the longing to change the past. Fear is fast forward – the desire to control the future. Depression is pause – the stagnation of trying to keep life at bay. Freedom is play – a thrilling free-fall into the juicy aliveness of now.” – Jeff Foster
63. “Today…Dance without rules in the vast field of the unknown.” – Jeff Foster
64. “Give your questions time to breathe. And the answers will find you.” – Jeff Foster
65. “. Begin by feeling the warmth of your own broken heart, reconnecting there at the very source of disconnection, finding presence in your own presence.” – Jeff Foster
66. “Do not seek the extraordinary, but see the extraordinary shining through the ordinary. The gateway is everywhere.” – Jeff Foster
67. “Bow to your awkwardness. Kneel at the altar of your failures.” – Jeff Foster
68. “There are only solutions, waiting patiently for ‘you’ to disappear.” – Jeff Foster
69. “Life is not a series of present moments, but a single present moment with infinite depths.” – Jeff Foster
70. “Cherish your doubts. They are the seeds of mystery.” – Jeff Foster
71. “At the root of every desire is the desire for ourselves.” – Jeff Foster
72. “Today…let your identity be a giant question mark.” – Jeff Foster
73. “This moment is an invitation to start again…Begin where you are.” – Jeff Foster
74. “The story is always old. The silence is always brand new.” – Jeff Foster
75. “Knowing who you are – the unconditional embrace of this moment’s contentment is true content-ment.” – Jeff Foster

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