Jeff Foster, author of "The Deepest Acceptance", speaks about who you truly are, beyond your story of yourself, and how to be unconditionally friendly to the present moment.
He invites us to see sadness and fear as intelligence, they are movements of life, they are movements of you, they are not enemies, they are not against you, they contain intelligence of life itself... this universal intelligence that moves planets, grows flowers, explodes volcanoes,... everything is intelligent, on running away from sadness we may miss its deepest intelligence...
THE GUEST HOUSE
This being human is a
guest house.
Every morning a new
arrival.
A joy, a depression,
a meanness,
Some momentary
awareness comes
As an unexpected
visitor.
Welcome and entertain
them all!
Even if they’re a
crowd of sorrows,
Who violently sweep
your house
Empty of its
furniture,
Still, treat each guest
honourably.
He may be clearing
you out
For some new delight.
The dark thought, the
shame, the malice,
Meet them at the door
laughing,
And invite them in.
Be grateful for
whoever comes,
Because each has been
sent
As a guide from
beyond.
Jelaludim Rumi
