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„I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something that God recognizes I will do — and I have done it — and God forgives me for it."“

—  Jimmy Carter American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981) 1924

Interview in Playboy magazine (1976), while a candidate for President.
Pre-Presidency

„It is wrong to blame anyone for failing to forecast accurately in an unpredictable world. However, it seems fair to blame professionals for believing they can succeed in an impossible task.“

—  Daniel Kahneman, book Thinking, Fast and Slow

„There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.“

—  Jane Austen, book Emma

Source: Emma

„Overthinking is the biggest cause of unhappiness.“

—  Gautama Buddha philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism -563 - -483 BC

„NO EMOTION IS A MISTAKE

Awakening is not about deleting or transcending human emotions, for how would the ocean transcend a single wave, and how would the sun transcend one of its beloved sunbeams? It's about seeing that every emotion - from joy to despair, bliss to boredom, agony to ecstasy - is only a movement of life energy, actually a movement of yourself, a wave in your vastness. No emotion is a threat, an enemy, or a punishment. Every emotion is an invitation to remember your vastness, rest in your oceanic nature. You are on a pathless path of radical inclusion, friend, and there are no mistakes here.“

—  Jeff Foster Spiritual teacher 1980

Source: https://www.facebook.com/LifeWithoutACentre/photos/no-emotion-is-a-mistakeawakening-is-not-about-deleting-or-transcending-human-emo/1109464082484532/

„Be willing to expose your unhappiness. Give a voice to the sorrow, the anger, the fear, the deep loneliness burning at your core. Break some taboos. Say the ‘wrong’ thing. Shatter the false image. You may lose followers. You may lose friends. You may lose your job. You will certainly lose your mask.

Change may scare the shit out of you. Good. It’s supposed to. You may lose everything and you may have to begin life again. But the soul will rejoice. It has been through myriad deaths and rebirths. It couldn’t give a fuck about protecting itself from change. It finds change thrilling, life-giving, erotic even.

Yes, there is a bigger Happiness that embraces and celebrates even our deepest unhappiness!“

—  Jeff Foster Spiritual teacher 1980

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/B5RcCpknF7y/

„The greatest gift you can offer anyone
is their complete freedom.
Freedom to love, to laugh, to cry,
to feel scared, angry, insecure,
full of doubt or full of joy.
To hold them in a safe and sacred space.

You don't exist to make anyone else happy.
But you can be present.
Present to their unhappiness, their excitement.
Present to the life that moves in them.

And you can invite them into a deeper Happiness.
The Happiness of Being itself.
The Happiness that holds them
exactly as they are.

The way you hold them now.

The way the ground holds the flowers, the trees, the great mountain ranges.

The way you were held as a little one.

And before the stars were born.“

—  Jeff Foster Spiritual teacher 1980

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/BxctntcHCUR/

„Healing hurts. But what hurts more is the refusal of the call. The true pain of living is the abandonment of self, the mind-body split that makes us fear life. Our ache may be heavy and our souls tired today, but resistance makes it all feel a thousand times worse. Rejection of where we are amplifies suffering. Until we cannot take it anymore. Until there is no way out but in. Diving into the blackness, we discover not death but more abundant life. This is the great paradox of healing, which all great artists and poets and seers have known. We die into our trauma and discover our courage. The fiercest warriors are the ones who have let life break and remake them a thousand times over. The gods of healing are calling through your pain today. Healing hurts, yes, but the hurt itself may eventually heal you.“

—  Jeff Foster Spiritual teacher 1980

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/B-16fjMHi5o/

„Stop trying to heal yourself; fix yourself; even awaken yourself. Stop trying to Fast-Forward the movie of your life Let go of 'letting go'. Healing is not a destination.
Your pain, your sorrow, your doubts, your longings, your fearful thoughts: they are not mistakes, and they are not asking to be 'healed'. They are asking to be held. Here, now, lightly in the loving, healing arms of present awareness.“

—  Jeff Foster Spiritual teacher 1980

„Pain is not the real problem; the real problem is our thinking about pain, our resistance to it, our attempt to escape it and get to an (imaginary) future.“

—  Jeff Foster Spiritual teacher 1980

Source: https://www.lifewithoutacentre.com/writings/shockingly-simple-principles-of-spiritual-awakening/

„Spiritual awakening is not a special feeling, state, or experience. It is not a goal or destination, somewhere to reach in the future. As the Buddha was trying to tell us (though few actually listened), it is not a superhuman achievement or attainment. You don’t have to travel to India to find it. It is not a special state of perfection reserved for the lucky or the privileged few. It is not an exclusive club. It is not an out-of-body experience, and it does not involve living in a cave, shutting off all your beautiful senses, detaching yourself from the realities of this modern world. It cannot be transmitted to you by a fancy bearded (or non-bearded) guru, nor can it be taken away or lost. You do not have to become anyone’s disciple or follower, or give away all your possessions. You do not have to join a cult. You do not have to follow anyone.

Rather, is a constant and ancient invitation – throughout every moment of your life – to trust and embrace yourself exactly as you are, in all your glorious imperfection. It is about being fully present and awake to each precious moment, coming out of the epic movie of past and future (“The Story of Me”) and showing up for life, knowing that even your feelings of non-acceptance are accepted here. It is about radically opening up to this extraordinary gift of existence, embracing both the pain and the joy of it, the bliss and the sorrow, the ecstasy and the overwhelm, the certainty and the doubt. Knowing that you are never separate from the Whole, never broken, never truly lost.“

—  Jeff Foster Spiritual teacher 1980

Source: https://www.lifewithoutacentre.com/writings/shockingly-simple-principles-of-spiritual-awakening/

„Thoughts and feelings are not mistakes, and they are not asking to be HEALED. They are asking to be HELD, here, now, lightly, in the loving arms of present awareness…“

—  Jeff Foster Spiritual teacher 1980

Source: https://www.lifewithoutacentre.com/

„When we try to help people, we have to be aware: are we doing it for them, or are we doing it because we want their approval?
If you're doing it for them, just be there with them, and for them, in a space of love.“

—  Anita Moorjani writer 1959

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/CDA8mkhAvV5/

„Don't be so thirsty for oppurtunity that you drink for every cup handed to you. That's how you get poisoned.“

— Unknown author

„Don't try to be beautiful. Just be real, and this is already beautiful enough.“

—  Jeff Foster Spiritual teacher 1980

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/CE1MDw4HZEH/?igshid=1n491r0058nzk

„Sometimes you have to break a little more to heal a little more.“

—  Jeff Foster Spiritual teacher 1980

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/CDjn4FdnwLI/?igshid=1srn2m0wwoodi

„Confidence is not a blind belief in success. Comfidence is a comfort with the possibility of failure.“

—  Mark Manson American writer and blogger 1984

Source: https://www.facebook.com/Markmansonnet/photos/a.371143826347930/2571200859675538

„When you are going through difficulty and wonder where God is, remember that the teacher is always quiet during the test.“

—  Keanu Reeves Canadian actor, director, producer and musician 1964

„Selfishness comes from too little self-love, not too much, as we compensate for our lack. There’s no such thing as caring for the self too much, just as there’s no such thing as too much genuine affection for others. Our world suffers from too little self-love and too much judgment, insecurity, fear, and mistrust. If we all cared about ourselves more, most of these ills would disappear.“

—  Anita Moorjani writer 1959