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Your Life Cannot Go Wrong

Jeff Foster
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आपका जीवन कभी गलत नहीं हो सकता
असल में, आपकी दुनिया कुछ इस तरह बनायीं जाती है के, आप को कुछ नहीं होता, बल्के सब कुछ आपके लिए होता है - आपकी जागृति के लिए, आपके विकास के लिए, आपको प्रेरणा देने के लिए, आपके अन्वेषण ( exploration ) के लिए - फिर भले ही आप इस बात को भूल जाएँ, या इसे देख न पाएँ या इस बात का ध्यान न रहने के कारण निराश हो जाएँ।

जब कोई तय कि हुई मंज़िल नहीं होती, आप कभी भी मंज़िल से भटक नहीं सकते, तो आप कभी खो भी नहीं सकते, इसलिए आपके जीवन में ऐसा कुछ भी नहीं होता जो आपको आपके रास्ते से भटका दे। आपका रास्ता ही जीवन में घटित होता है और जो आपके जीवन में घटता है वही आपका रास्ता है। दूसरा कोई और रास्ता नहीं है।

हर चीज एक भेंट है इस अटूट पथ पर जिसे हम जीवन कहते हैं - वो हँसी, वो आँसू, दुःख के गहरे पल, कुछ बहुत प्रिय खो देने का अहसास, वो दर्द, वो असमंजस, वो समय जब आपको लगता है आप नहीं कर पाएंगे, यहाँ तक के एक प्यार भरे दिल के टूटने पर डुबादेनेवाला दर्द भी एक भेंट है - चाहे आप इस बात को कभी-कभी भूल जाएँ या देख न पाएँ या पुरे खेल से आपका विश्वास ही उठ जाए।

पर खेल से विश्वास उठ जाना भी खेल का एक भाग ही है, और वह दृश्य जहाँ कुछ गलत हो रहा है यह नहीं दर्शाता के पूरा खेल ही गलत है, इसलिए आप हमेशा वहीँ होते हैं जहाँ आपको होना चाहिए, चाहे आप माने या न माने, भले ही आपको ऐसा क्यूँ न लगे के आप को जहाँ होना चाहिए आप वहाँ नहीं हैं।

जीवन पे विश्वास किया जा सकता है, भले ही विश्वास नाम कि चिड़िया योजनो ( light years ) दूर ही क्यूँ न लगे, और जीवन कभी गलत नहीं हो सकता, क्यूँकि सब कुछ जीवन है, और जीवन सब कुछ है। इसे समझिये, अपने मन में इसे जानिये, और आध्यात्मिकता बहुत सरल है, सांस लेने जितनी सरल, और रात में तारों को देखने जितनी प्राकृतिक और शांत आश्चर्य में डूबती हुई। ब्रह्माण्ड ( universe ) आपकी सोच कि सीमाओं से परे कहीं ज़यादा ख़ूबसूरत है।

-- जेफ्फ फोस्टर

आत्म अन्वेषण के लिए कुछ प्रश्न :-

आप कभी अपने रास्ते से भटक नहीं सकते, आप इस विचार से कैसे जुड़ते हैं ?
जीवन पर कोई इतना पूर्ण विश्वास कैसे विक्सित कर सकता है ?
ऐसे विश्वास का अनुभव क्या आपने कभी अपने निजी जीवन में किया है? क्या आप वो अनुभव हमारे साथ बाँट सकते है ?
Seed Questions for Reflection

How do you relate to the notion that you can never lose your path? How can one develop such an absolute trust in life? Can you share a personal story of a time when you experienced this trust?

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Consuelo
May 21, 2022
You have no idea how much you helped me with this piece. God bless you a thousand times!
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Lisa
Oct 1, 2014

 Totally loved this post! THANK YOU for the reminder and blessings. Sending infinitely many back to you. 

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Mayra Hitchens
Mar 26, 2014

 "Life can be trusted absolutely..and cannot go wrong..for all is life.." Makes me squirm...

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Amy Mar 26, 2014
Eternal Life can be trusted absolutely . . . It cannot go wrong . . . For all who believe.  
This TRUTH should still your squirm.  
Justice, Love and value to all.  None greater . . . None less than . . . I believe in One God, One Savior, One Power and the BLESSING of Heaven.

Good Night,
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sanjay
Mar 25, 2014

I have faced many challenges in life from losing parents and sister , to health issues . Every loss broke me down , humbled me. What I have now realized is I have no control over what life is throwing up and that this moment is inevitable , I can only surrender to this .  

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Avani
Mar 20, 2014

 Thanks so much for this....I sometimes struggle with the notion of free will.....do we really have a choice?   do we really determine any outcome....is this life movie already pre written?  and everything that happens pre determined or is it being made up as things unfold?

YB
Yaroslava Beloshesky Nov 28, 2019
do we really have a choice? when something happens we have a choice in how we respond. we also have the choice of reacting or reponding, or even just replying
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Ron Cortolezzis
Mar 19, 2014

Expressing from where I am NOW .... Like you and everyone, I am, We are the Ocean, Vast, Infinite, Beyond Unconscious, Subconscious, Mental, Emotions, and the 'Separation' of Bodies. There is No-thing to 'Lose' or 'Gain' only to Allow, Surrender, Dissolve to Fall into. It is Knowing and the Allowance, I am Authentic, that I experience the Ocean. The Ocean Always Has been, Will be, Is. I have nothing to Lose. I just Am. For Me this is my key, my anchor (on a mental level)  to Authentic Living. Living now for me is about expressing my vastness for the Gratitude of Freedom and Love Eternal, the Service of Helping others to find/rediscover the Ocean, drink, party and swim in it. This is Our Divine Right. We are Divine.

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David Apr 18, 2020
It is Knowing and the Allowance, I am Authentic, that I experience the Billy Ocean.
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Charles Eisenstein
Feb 23, 2014

 I agree with Jeff, but there is a danger in teachings like that. I imagine telling it to a starving teenager in Somalia or a mutilated woman or someone whose family was killed in a drone strike. "That didn't happen to you, it happened FOR you." Am I speaking a living truth, or am I speaking from western white privilege? This teaching can obscure the ways in which we participate in, have agency in, injustice. To take the extreme example, it would by hypocritical indeed to beat someone up and take their money, and say, "This is happening as a gift from the universe for your development." But the equivalent is happening every time we make a purchase or pay taxes or drive a car...

I'm not advocating we feel guilty about these things. I agree with what Jeff says. But I do think the dimension I mention here has to be accommodated within that metaphysics, or it will not be fully satisfying.

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xiaoshan pan Feb 23, 2014

Deal Charles, this is not about that starving teenager in Somalia, or about the mutilated woman. This is not about you, or about me. So, one cannot say "it happened FOR you" because it is not about "you."  However, if one realizes what this "you" truly refers to, then it all makes sense - it is about that starving teenager in Somalia, and about the mutilated woman.  It is about you, and about me.  Yes, it happened for you too.

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Susan Livingston Feb 23, 2014

Thank you, Charles, for speaking my thoughts more eloquently than I did elsewhere in this thread. I don't feel guilty; I'm doing exactly what I was put/brought here to do. I only feel disgusted and terrified. The neuroscience of empathy teaches that we can only see the monstrosity if we can find it in ourselves. Cold comfort, eh?

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Conrad P Pritscher Feb 23, 2014

 Thank you so much Xiaoshan Pan for your uncommon wisdom. I am grateful.
Conrad P Pritscher

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Claudia Mar 19, 2014

I am so happy i found this conversation!! I have been reading this kind of wisdom for some times now, and while  it makes me feel better, it always leaves me frustrated because it only seem to apply to privilege people who have food   on their plate.. Charles puts it well and i would love to find books that discuss this subject. Thank you all ;)
claudia

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Paris Mar 19, 2014

 Sooooo what does Jeff have to say about this ? Please explain Jeff xx

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Conrad P. Pritscher Mar 20, 2014

 The attached book, "Learning What to Ignore" may be helpful, I notice I can't attach it.PLEASE SEND ME YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS AND i CAN THEN ATTACH IT.
 Kind regards
 Conrad

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claudia Mar 20, 2014

 Thank you Conrad, 
I might just finally have found the right link to many questions! I see you actually wrote the book you suggested, and i will try to get my hands on it for sure. Writing my email public does not seem like a good idea right now but i found the link. According to so many books, what you think ,the way you think about it, your attitude, your "intention", your perseverance, and your out look on life is suppose to affect it greatly, but i see starving children that  think about food all day and it does not help, no matter how positive they are, so it seem like one might need more then a good attitude. The only explanation i have for myself is that we have a "role" to play on earth, and that role might be to be a starving person, because this is what we need to learn and teach , by being that person , in this life time. Does that make any sense? 
claudia

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Amelia Mar 20, 2014

 Interesting "take" (the roles we play on this earth).  
I have a brother in law who has a history that goes like this:  10 years, abused by his wife; Divorce;  Developed addictions to alcohol, tobacco, sex and prescription drugs (to cope); Mental abuse continues (by former wife).  A second marriage and divorce;  Fell further into the pit of addictions; Lost his job; Completed one year of rehab;  Now clean.  No money.  No job.  He has yet to seriously pursue work.  Family has invested a little over 100,000 for his care/to keep his home/care of teenage daughters over the last 3 years.   
He feels like "the victim" and that we (the family) have an obligation to take care of him.  I so wonder what "role" we are meant to play here?  . . . And for how long?  

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Dr. Deri
Feb 20, 2014

 Absolutely,  all roads can lead to our enlightenment, that we are here to love, live and have lessons.. Anything else is an abberation, and if we could wake up and realize that all of this is temporary, then maybe we would live more authentic lives!!

I love the work of Jon Kabat Zinn Coming to Our Senses and all of Pema Chodron's words of widsom!!

Breathe, and stay in the moment!

MZ
Madeline Z
Feb 19, 2014

 
I remember when I left my husband of 30 years.I was relieved and overwhemed. Lost and did't know what to do with myself. Sometimes I'd lie in bed and say, "God take this pain away." Little by little  I surrendered to the sadness and being alone. I took myself on dates and became my own best friend for the first time. After about 3 years,I met Neil and knew we were meant to be together. I know it was God in me knowing.

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Claudia Mar 20, 2014

 Thank you for sharing this!! I am in the same situation, except i have not met my "neil" yet, just followed a feeling 4 years ago, and i still wander why sometimes! Thank you;)

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Cabbage
Feb 18, 2014

 This is an amazing reminder to "let go" of thinking that things in life "happen to us"---I love the idea that everything happens "for us" and that we can never lose our path because it is all part of one big journey in which we are all connected. Simply beautiful---blew me away, and at the perfect time too. :-) Once again, reinforcing my belief that "you get what you need" (like in the Rolling stones song) just when you need it.

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Susan
Feb 18, 2014

 What a wonderful reminder that all that is ,is all that is! We all spend so much time trying to understand and control the direction of our paths, when what is really needed is acceptance of the Present Moment I( no matter what that moment consists of). It is a simple concept and not always so easy to implement. Blessings to you Jeff for sharing this and to all the other souls to whom we are all connected.

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Nazrul Islam Feb 19, 2014

 Susan, Yes u r right, i m in opinion with ur comment, actually just we can write so big word, we can tell abt our selves, we can show sympathy, these r all only to show, but it is really so hard one to find out  a real one as will come forward in practically, though has got capability, just one word, i like to say, most of us r showy , nt in practical, i m telling this from my practical, i m a social worker, i m trying to  like fight against poverty,, i asked here also so many web site, to so many friends, but i didnt get any responds, pls try to view my web link, then u will be clear, http://www.helpingothers.clubforleisure.com/2.html https://secure.avaaz.org/en/20mm_story_page/?tUAtcab&story_id=15431

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SusanWallace
Feb 18, 2014
Waiting at an airport to catch a flight, I stumbled across a book by Paul Williams. I opened the book and my eyes fell to a simple sentence- "Nothing happens by accident."  For many successful years I lived by the belief that everything happens for a reason. Flash forward 40 years...I have just come through 2 years of darkness, confusion, sorrow, brokenness and pain. I questioned everything I believed, and thought, perhaps that I was at the end of the line. I am currently back in the sunlight, and humbled by everything I went through.  I spent a lot of time over the past 24 months quietly sitting and getting in touch with the vulnerability I was experiencing. Instead of pushing my thoughts & feelings away, I embraced them. I embraced the changes, the insecurities, the sadness, the anger, the betrayal...the unknowing...all of it! Then something amazing happened. People started showing up in my life who needed love, compassion and hope. The experiences I had just been thro... View full comment
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Pat Feb 18, 2014

 Hi Susan 
I have just recently began chemotherapy and do not believe that I was chosen to receive cancer. Crappy and great things happen as we continue to grow and mature along our paths. I do believe I have free will in how I cope with this disease and other challenges that have occurred during my life. I too have a gentler outlook on life and it has also brought me much pleasure.
But then again I am only human and negative thoughts can interfere with my relationships with myself and others... that is also part of the journey. So not sure I totally believe that every thing that happens to us is part of some greater plan, but we do have a choice whether to claim it or distract ourselves with anger or blame. In essence we think along the same train of thought don't you agree?

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Brenda Mcbride Feb 18, 2014

 Susan, my dad who was the best person, most honest, giving, accepting person of others passed from cancer. I don't believe it was meant for him to get cancer and suffer. It still bothers me terribly as to why this has happened.  And,  you too have cancer. I'm sure you wonder why, but, I commend you for your great attitude.  Wishing you all my best.Brenda

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AJ Feb 19, 2014

This is beautiful.  Thank you.  I needed.

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Debora Mar 14, 2014

 Thank you for your honesty 

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Robyn
Feb 18, 2014
 I would like to believe in this view of life, and can see, and have learned, at least partially, its validity and truth. But having lost 5 members of my immediate, sane, and loving family to murder, AIDS, an accidental drug overdose, an accidental drowning, and a hospital-acquired infection after supposedly "routine, minor" surgery --  in addition to the loss of my own physical health and operatic singing career to auto-immune disorders, please forgive me for my heart-level skepticism. Yes, I have learned much, but those who have not suffered this kind of repeated trauma, loss, and pain, please go easy on the universal rejoicing for the "lessons!" There are many things to learn, and many, many things that also break us, and that even compromise our ability to work with all these lovely "lessons!" For many years, I have been working vigorously on my spiritual practice, and have pursued several different kinds of therapy. Human suffering is a great, ineffable mystery. Pl... View full comment
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david doane Feb 18, 2014

 Robyn -- Thank you for what you said -- your statement was sort of a reality check for me, and I was touched.  Yes, we have free will and a lot of power as to the choices we make and how we deal with things.  And it's also true that life does things to us, and sometimes they're traumatic things that knock us for a loop.  Life can be gruesome.  Thanks for the reminder to not overdo the easy answers. 

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Syd Feb 18, 2014

 Robyn --- thank you for being authentic and my ability to experience your truth.  This is a good for you, as my denial is still a testiness and edginess, even when I choose a meaning for my experiences.  

Your presence is significant and you truly nourished my spirit.  

SL
Susan Livingston Feb 19, 2014

Robyn, as a two-time assault survivor (November 2000 and June 2001) who experienced blame-the-victim energy from family, friends, and professionals during the post-traumatic years, I resonate strongly with your words. Please see my more extensive comment elsewhere in this thread.

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Robyn Feb 20, 2014

 Thanks to Syd, David, Susan and others for their heart-full replies! Don't get me wrong, in spite of everything, I practice my spiritual path "as though my pants were on fire," as I recently said to a friend! What I hear and read as "philosophies" or ways of interpreting life events and realities don't  change the felt-reality or the personal consequences of these ineffably puzzling, life-altering, and very deeply painful happenings, especially when they are so numerous! We are certainly free to use our minds to interpret the events of our lives for our learning and our benefit, but our hearts and souls still experience the battering, the unspeakable pain, and our lives are forever changed. We may learn many things. And we may still be broken.

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Brenda McBride Feb 20, 2014

My life has changed forever since my dads passing.  It's soon to be 3 years. My soul is not the same. A piece of me left upon his leaving the physical world. Are the deceased aware of us here on Earth? And, do they miss us? I wonder. If you can give me some input, I'd be grateful. THank you.Brenda 

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Dr. Deri Feb 20, 2014

 Yes, Brenda, indeed our loved ones do hear us and we hear them in various and sundry ways, can be via a dream, hearing a bird, or just being open to getting a message.  I write extensively about this in Soulful Love: The Search for the Self which is out of print but you may be able to find it on amazon or in your library.. The only thin veil that separates us between this world and the next is the breath.. Our dear ones are closer to us than we realize.

Namaste,

Deri

www.DrDeri.com

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Conrad Feb 20, 2014

 Robin, your life is perfect. The human perfection may be thought of as "broken." As I see it, is not the breakes but are attitude towards the brakes that can help us be peaceful or not. Warm and kind regards.

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Raga Feb 24, 2014

 Yes Robyn. A person who goes through suffering and yet does not lose the equilibrium - that is the essence of life. But what if, too many sorrows, sad events and that too continuously are dumped on an individual or family. What if life is a continuous saga of pain, helplessness and discontent. Thinking that it is all a part of the bigger picture and a larger beautiful canvas that is laid out unknown to us, can I forget about the present - suffering silently. Well, it requires lot of inner courage, replenishment of faith (which goes on getting emptied faster, as nothing good unfolds) and faster bouncing back to current agenda.
There are moments or events which cannot be shared with others - because the suffering is so private and solutions are not available. Silent suffering continues.
I too had very miserable life and still continues for over 30 years.

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Always Feb 25, 2014

This is earth's strongest evidence for Heaven.  All we learn from Jesus in the NT has yet to come.  Where is the "playing field" level here?  Life here, is an illusion.  Heaven, on the other hand, is for REAL.  The truest  gift is yet to be realized for those who believe.  There, justice and Love will reign.  Just for you!  I pray. 

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Brenda Mcbride Feb 25, 2014

 Excellent comment!!! Heaven is for real and life here is an illusion.

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sanjay Mar 25, 2014

 I have been through immense pain of losing my parents and my sister , of having seen sickness in the family and also my health issues . One after the other situations would break me down . I have not found any answers to human suffering all that I know is that this is inevitable , this moment is inevitable , it has already occurred and I can do nothing about it , knowing that the only choice I have is surrender .  

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With Love Mar 25, 2014

 We're just passing through.  The suffering ends when this life ends and the next begins.  I am praying for you.

YO
yogitony
Feb 18, 2014

If what Jeff Foster says is taken literally, then the choices we have are irrelevant and, in point of fact, we really have no choices....life simply unfolds magically for our best interest no matter what we do.
He obviously has a strong faith and trust in the beauty and the ultimate benevolence of ..............well, of what?
My question is what is the basis of his statements? It feels wonderful to have such a trust, especially in times of trauma, but where in his heart is the trust placed?
If he said Nature, or an intelligent creative force, or some form of revelation i could take his words of having some authority.
Actually, i do agree with most everything he says and firmly believe and understand that our choices matter. My authority is the deep foundation of every serious religious tradition i have investigated and practiced and the gut check that keeps me connected to my heart.

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Syd
Feb 18, 2014
 I will agree with what Jeff Foster says, “… that nothing happens to you, but everything happens for you - …”   The hard part for me, though, is recovering from the horror and shock of life.  Maybe I am being weaned from any reliance on my feelings and I am now to find faith in being powerless and even in hopelessness.  It feels like I am to find the heart of faith in being emotionally paralysis, as I know the 110 volts of electrical shock is coming again and again.  I am tired of the intense shock from life and now in my own body’s inability to function.  Could it be possible to find the heart of faith at that point I am being shocked into awareness?   Could this moment be faith of the awareness create stillness, and then the courage to accept the shock?   I just feel my deepest shock is recovering from my disbelief and it is like I am recovering from the Supreme Being.  It seems this awarenes... View full comment
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Pat Baker
Feb 18, 2014

 I feel he is saying to be present for life with all it's bumps, lows and highs. We cannot control our lives as much as we think we are able.....I am trying to put my fears aside and enjoy each day as it unwinds before me

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Christine
Feb 18, 2014

 I have faith but I don't know if my body does.  So mixed in the wonderment is tears.  The mantra that life loves me shocked me because it has never occurred to me that life loves me. Dealing with a rare disease with the chronic pain and limited time I can stay up out of bed begs to differ. Someone told me not to have faith but live faith. I don't even know where to begin.  But after reading Mr. Foster's insight maybe I don't have to worry about beginning.

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Brenda McBride Feb 18, 2014

I have been suffering from my dads passing for 3 years now.  I know my body and mind have been so tired and depleted of energy. But, we must believe that things will get better. I hope you feel better each day. Life is a gift for all of us. I need to remind myself !

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Conrad Feb 18, 2014

 Thank you Christine for your courage. Warm and kind regards.Conrad


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Christine Feb 19, 2014

 Thank you Conrad. Many Blessings!

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Christine Feb 19, 2014

 Brenda, my deepest sympathy that your Dad passed.  Both my parents, within a few months of each other, went to the other side.  Thank you for your encouragement. I hope your body and mind is filled with healing energy. Many Blessings!

JP
Jagdish P Dave
Feb 17, 2014
 Jeff offers an interesting and refreshing perspective on life and living. I feel close to this  teleological perspective. I also relate to the causal perspective. Bad things have happened to me for a variety of reasons. Some of them seems to be largely beyond my hands and control. The prostate cancer that I developed at the age of 85-I am 88 years old and still going- seems to have a genetic basis. What caused it I do not know. I have some ideas about it-the toxic conditions I have been (like most of us are) exposed to, chroinc stress I have been going through like most other go though and a a lack of adequate exercise and a lack of hundred percent wholesome food that I should have eaten consistently and on and on. I have not given up on living. I have learned a few good lessons from this happening and I am doing the best I can to treat it. I have been learning a lot from my illness and I am sharing my lessons of living with many I come across. So, there is also a purp... View full comment
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Nazrul Islam Feb 18, 2014

 Really so painful, in this condition u feel well sometimes , Briefly i m telling abt myself, once i was so happy, though i m nt rich one at all, my darkness comes in my life after my beloved wife,s death, she was my inspiration, she helped some times, she as a school teacher, i was also govt official, now retd, my 2 kids, both r well established, but both r far from me, they live their own job,s station, i live here with my Mom at my home, my basic needs r so few, just i try to live, i have got no any sick ness, my main problems , i m a social worker, i try to help the poor in various sector, 1stly these were from my own, but now i m unable to bear, more on i m in debt, for me&for my works, this is so tragic  for me, pls try to view my web link of my work, all the details r given there, thanks, Nazrul from Bangladesh http://www.helpingothers.clubforleisure.com/2.html,  https://secure.avaaz.org/en/20mm_story_page/?tUAtcab&story_id=15431

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david doane
Feb 16, 2014

 According to the author, whatever happens and whatever I do is my path, so by that parameter I can never lose my path.  And of course all is life and life is all, and I certainly agree and trust that I can learn and grow  from everything that I do and everything that happens.  I also believe that I can deliberately go directly against my inner truth, and to me that is me losing my path even though I certainly can learn something that I need to learn from it.  Plenty of times I've gone  against my inner intuition/truth, and I've learned from at least some of those times.  Also, I don't think everything in my life happens for me, as the author says.  The sun shines, and I benefit greatly from it -- I don't believe it shines for me and I don't believe that I benefit from it for its sake -- it's doing its thing and I'm doing mine -- we are interrelated.  I don't know if it's benefiting any from me. 

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William Feb 17, 2014

 Even what you do not believe is your path....ie: not believing in God has nothing to do with God, just You.

So grasshopper, it is irrelevant whether you believe that this is this or this is that....it still Is regardless of what You believe...and that is your path

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Susan Livingston Feb 19, 2014

 I agree with you, David. I'm not even sure what meaning to attach to "my" life, since no part of Life is owned by "me" but rather moves through me as the experience of my ego. IMO, "things happen FOR me" is just as judgmental as "things happen TO me."

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Meredith
Feb 14, 2014
So simple, yet so profound. I love the line that "loss of faith in the show is part of the show"...and what a wonderful show it is! The selection reminds me a lot of the work of Byron Katie, and brought to mind this quote by her: "When I argue with reality, I lose—but only 100% of the time." This piece is such a good reminder to stop arguing with reality and instead embrace it. In my own life, as someone who is self-employed, I have learned to really lean into the fear and unknown aspects of life - particularly where my next source of income is coming from, after many years of being in the corporate world, where I felt a perceived sense of security (which I recognize to be an illusion) and a regular paycheck. It never ceases to astonish my limited mind that as much as I may worry, things always work out...in many cases without much (or any) effort on my part. I give away so much energy examining my life circumstances and trying to "figure everything out" and have really tried to... View full comment
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Christine Feb 18, 2014

What a great quote. Thank you for sharing that. Many Blessings.

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Conrad P Pritscher
Feb 14, 2014

 Jeff Foster said everything. I just emailed this article to several friends and I said I can't think of anything else to say.
I believe what he said. I often forget what he said in my daily living. If I kept what he said in mind, I would live more in the present and be more peaceful and joyous more frequently. With X.Pan I am in awe.Thank you for the opportunity to respond.  Warm and kind regards to everyone,


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xiaoshan pan
Feb 13, 2014

 Absolutely amazing insight! I am in awe.