Move, But ...

Move, but don't move the way
fear makes you move.

Rumi

This Is It

Nothing happens next.
This is it.

Zen Saying

Beating the Game

If you don't see change as horrible
but as an opportunity for awakening,
you've got the game beat.

Ram Dass

Welcome

The mind says, "I wish I could change the past."
The heart says, "I'm open to the future."
Life says, "Welcome to the present."

Jeff Foster

Unnecessary Questions

You don't need all the answers.
They will come, in time, or not,
or perhaps the unnecessary questions
will fall away.

Jeff Foster

Radical Self-love

Give yourself permission
to rest, and be silent,
and do nothing.
Love this aloneness, friend.
Fall into it.
(Don't worry. You don't disappear. I am here to catch you.)
Invite warm, curious attention
deep inside your weary bones.
Until there is no loneliness,
only radical self-love.

Jeff Foster

Stop Trying to Heal Yourself

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.
Be here.

Your pain, your sorrow, your doubts, your longings,
your fearful thoughts: they are not mistakes,
and they aren't asking to be "healed."

They are asking to be held. Here, now, lightly,
in the loving, healing arms of present awareness.

Jeff Foster