Jeff Foster (www.lifewithoutacentre.com)DAY MEETING: STAYING PRESENT IN TIMES OF UNCERTAINTY AND CHANGE
THE BIRTH OF GENTLENESS
For so many years, I wanted to die. I found living unbearable - the mind was a torture chamber, and I wanted out.
I realise now that... I never really wanted to die - I wanted relief from my overactive mind, an escape from torturous and unbearably intense feelings of sorrow, shame and despair. I wanted to live, to really live, wild and free!
For so many years, I wanted to die. I found living unbearable - the mind was a torture chamber, and I wanted out.
I realise now that... I never really wanted to die - I wanted relief from my overactive mind, an escape from torturous and unbearably intense feelings of sorrow, shame and despair. I wanted to live, to really live, wild and free!
True relief was eventually found not through physical death but through a giant YES to life; not by transforming into something I 'should' be, but through a deep acceptance of myself as I actually was. The real death was the death of the war against life, the death of the fixed identity as 'self', and the birth of gentleness.
- Jeff Foster
- Jeff Foster
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