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Jeff Foster is an author and international teacher who offers a way out of seeking fulfillment in the future and into the acceptance of "all this, here and now." Jeff's teachings both explore profound spiritual subjects and integrate a straightforward understanding of the difficulties of daily vis mere life. His written works include The Deepest Acceptance and The Way of Rest. For more, see lifewithoutacentre.com. vis mindre

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Falling in Love with Where You Are (2013) 18 eksemplarer
Se reposer (2017) 2 eksemplarer

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Fødselsdato
1980-07-30
Køn
male
Nationalitet
UK
Fødested
London, England, UK
Uddannelse
Cambridge University (Astrophysics)
Erhverv
spiritual teacher
Kort biografi
Quelque temps après être devenu jeune diplômé en astrophysique de l'Université de Cambridge, Jeff Foster s’est tourné vers une recherche spirituelle intense. Il a découvert que la libération est déjà présente et que tout ce que nous faisons pour l’atteindre est erroné. Il est l’auteur, en version française des ouvrages : La Vie sans Centre (Charles Antoni L’Originel. 2007), Une absence extraordinaire (Almora, 2011), L’acceptation profonde. Dire oui à la vie et se transformer (Almora, 2014).
Site de Jeff Foster : www.lifewithoutacentre.com

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This was much more bad self help then poetry to me and it was hard for me to get through. I have Depression and honestly it just felt like a mockery of my feelings. Just do x or y thing and it'll be better, because "you were never broken."
Maybe I was just in the wrong mindset while reading. Or maybe this poetry just wasn't for me (which is okay because if anything poetry is very personal.)

(This copy was free in exchange for an honest review from Netgalley)
 
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kayfeif | 1 anden anmeldelse | Jul 7, 2022 |
"It is nighttime, and I find myself back here, in my bed, where the world first appeared this morning. Perhaps a world will appear tomorrow. I don’t know. For now, just this is enough. Just this is the miracle."

This was a decent read overall, but doesn't belong to the best ones I read about non-duality. The concepts presented here feel a bit disjointed, and it seems obvious to me, that Jeff took a lot from other books/talks of that nature. I'm not sure, how it compares to later books from him, but here I was sometimes missing his own way of delivering this message.
There are some good bits in here, but I felt the book is too long and repetitive for what it wants to transmit (it's just THIS, why do we need 200 pages for THIS? :D). Furthermore, there were a lot of consciousness/awareness sentences, that I find too lofty, and I'm no longer fond of.
Still, it might be worth a recommendation if you haven't read a lot about non-duality yet and/or are looking for a (mostly) easy and calming read.
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syssneck | Jun 30, 2022 |
Name: You were never Broken
Writer: Jeff Foster
Source: Netgalley
Genre: Poetry, Self-Help
Rating: 4/5
Review:
"Your wounds, your turbulent and sorrowful places, your
imperfections, are not mistakes; they are the places in you desperately
yearning for love, waiting to be penetrated with a curious Light."

The book is divided into four parts.
Part One : A field of Meditation
Part Two: Saying Yes to the mess
Part Three: The Courage to stand Alone
Part four: Reasons to stay Alive

Each part is divided into different sections dealing with different topics based on a single theme. Each part starts with a detailed introduction on the topic along with the poet sharing his own experiences.

The language is very conversational, its like the poet is directly talking to you. The poet uses friendly tone and easy language in his poetries. Beautiful watermark effects on the pages, brings out an aesthetic feel. The poet has used repetition in many of his poems to lay emphasis on his points.

His poems are really amazing, self empowering, emphasizing, mysterious. He asks to enjoy the present moments, the feels, the sensations, the smells, the sounds and the tastes. He makes us understand the importance of living in the moment.
"Be present, be here
The teaching is damn simple
Be present be here"

I really liked the way he used metaphors is his poems, especially the one with the sacred lotus.
Honest and true exploration of his journey of self healing and self acceptance.

"Oh, the truth you wanted to speak! The words you wanted to
scream. The tears you longed to cry. The uncontrolled, wild ways in
which you wanted to move your body. The healthy human responses,
the urges, and yearnings you intelligently squished down in order to win love, stay safe, even stay alive."

"Perhaps loneliness is like a cosmic"

"Contact your sadness, and you contact the sadness of all living beings.
Contact all living beings, and your loneliness disappears"

"You don’t need to take your life.
Just let your life be taken by all that you see."

His poetries are raw and vulnerable. But the poems are too monotonous for a book of 218 pages. It kind of gets boring till the end.
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Fatima_Anwar | 1 anden anmeldelse | Nov 30, 2020 |
> Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Foster-La-joie-de-la-vraie-meditation/1202256
> La Lettre du Crocodile : http://lettreducrocodile.over-blog.net/2020/02/la-joie-de-la-vraie-meditation.ht...
> Nicolas (Amazon) : https://www.amazon.fr/gp/customer-reviews/R1NXFRXAGW99TW/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_rvw_ttl?...
> Bibliographie : https://www.librarything.fr/catalog.php?view=Joop-le-philosophe&author=foste...

> LA JOIE DE LA VRAIE MÉDITATION, par Jeff Foster (2019, Almora, 150 p.). — Pour Jeff Foster la méditation ce n’est pas être assis, immobile à certains moments de la journée dans un dojo ; la méditation c’est embrasser la vie dans tous ses aspects. Évoquant sa dépression, Jeff Foster raconte comment la méditation lui a littéralement sauvé la vie. La méditation, un vaste champ de Présence, accessible à chacun d’entre nous à chaque instant de notre vie ; un lieu sans effort où nous pouvons être nous-mêmes, avec nos imperfections, nos doutes, nos craintes, nos faiblesses. La méditation n’implique pas de se détacher, ou d’être insensible à la douleur de vivre ou d’essayer de devenir spirituellement illuminé. C’est plonger dans « le désordre sacré de ce moment présent » avec curiosité et émerveillement ; c’est panser nos blessures les plus profondes avec une conscience aimante, et apporter la lumière dans l’obscurité. Ces pages inspirées nous apprendront à faire de notre vulnérabilité une force en célébrant la majesté du moment présent.
3e millénaire, (135), Été 2020
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Joop-le-philosophe | May 3, 2020 |

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