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Jeff Foster

Jeff Foster is a British author and speaker whose books explore nonduality, mindfulness, emotional healing, and radical acceptance. Best known for The Deepest Acceptance and Falling in Love with Where You Are, he is widely read in contemporary spirituality circles for accessible, emotionally grounded guidance.

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Jeff Foster is a British writer and speaker whose work grew out of a difficult personal reorientation rather than a conventional literary apprenticeship. He studied astrophysics at Cambridge University, but the years around graduation were marked by depression and physical illness, followed by an intense spiritual search. In his mid-twenties, that search, in his own telling, gave way to a recognition of the “non-dual” nature of experience and to a renewed attention to ordinary life. That turning point supplied the basis for the body of writing and teaching for which he became known: reflective, psychologically aware, and centered on presence rather than self-improvement as conquest. ((https://us.macmillan.com/author/jefffoster/))

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Deep acceptance of things exactly as they are, is totally compatible with intelligent and honest action and speech, and a deep honouring of preferences as they arise
-Deep Acceptance of Life… And Saying “No”!
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We do not suffer alone. It is no wonder that the word ‘compassion’ literally means ‘to suffer with’
-We Do Not Suffer Alone
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I can no longer seek, or escape, what I already am
-A Poem for No-One
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Nobody lives in ‘ultimately true’. We cannot live in ultimates
-The birth and death of fundamentalism in nonduality and Advaita teachings
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Pain may actually indicate that our healing process is intensifying, not stalling; that we are actually more awake and sensitive than ever, more deeply connected with the here and now, less willing to turn away
-Healing Isn’t Always Supposed To ‘Feel Good’
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Your life may be an imperfect mess, but it is an imperfect mess that is perfectly divine – a work of sacred art, even if you forget that sometimes
-The Divine Mess of Your Life
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This moment doesn’t need your permission to be as it is. Your acceptance or rejection of this moment is already too late!
-Signposts to the Truth of Who You Really Are
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It takes no time to be what you already are, but it appears to take time to recognise what you are not
-The Wonder of Being

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