The Deepest Acceptance: Radical Awakening in Ordinary Life

So much of our lives are spent running—from pain, from vulnerability, and from everyday struggle. Jeff Foster understands that sense of pursuit. After years of depression and illness, he came to realize that what he had been seeking had been available to him all along—he needed only to shed his resistance and step into the limitless ocean of the present moment. In Jeff’s words, “The armor we wear to protect ourselves from the full experience of life does not really protect us—it just keeps us comfortably numb.”
In The Deepest Acceptance, Jeff provides readers with a series of insights intended to help strip away that armor and embrace life now, as it is and as you are. This warm, humorous, and candid offering invites us to stop trying to “do” acceptance and start falling in love with “what has already been allowed.”

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The Deepest Acceptance: Radical Awakening in Ordinary Life

So much of our lives are spent running—from pain, from vulnerability, and from everyday struggle. Jeff Foster understands that sense of pursuit. After years of depression and illness, he came to realize that what he had been seeking had been available to him all along—he needed only to shed his resistance and step into the limitless ocean of the present moment. In Jeff’s words, “The armor we wear to protect ourselves from the full experience of life does not really protect us—it just keeps us comfortably numb.”
In The Deepest Acceptance, Jeff provides readers with a series of insights intended to help strip away that armor and embrace life now, as it is and as you are. This warm, humorous, and candid offering invites us to stop trying to “do” acceptance and start falling in love with “what has already been allowed.”

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The Deepest Acceptance: Radical Awakening in Ordinary Life

The Deepest Acceptance: Radical Awakening in Ordinary Life

by Jeff Foster
The Deepest Acceptance: Radical Awakening in Ordinary Life

The Deepest Acceptance: Radical Awakening in Ordinary Life

by Jeff Foster

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So much of our lives are spent running—from pain, from vulnerability, and from everyday struggle. Jeff Foster understands that sense of pursuit. After years of depression and illness, he came to realize that what he had been seeking had been available to him all along—he needed only to shed his resistance and step into the limitless ocean of the present moment. In Jeff’s words, “The armor we wear to protect ourselves from the full experience of life does not really protect us—it just keeps us comfortably numb.”
In The Deepest Acceptance, Jeff provides readers with a series of insights intended to help strip away that armor and embrace life now, as it is and as you are. This warm, humorous, and candid offering invites us to stop trying to “do” acceptance and start falling in love with “what has already been allowed.”


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781604079142
Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/01/2012
Sold by: Macmillan
Format: eBook
Pages: 312
File size: 817 KB

About the Author

Jeff Foster
Jeff Foster shares from his own awakened experience a way out of seeking fulfillment in the future and into the acceptance of “all this, here and now.” He is the author of The Deepest Acceptance and The Way of Rest. Following a period of depression and physical illness, he embarked on an intensive spiritual search that came to an end with the discovery that life itself was what he had always been seeking. For more, see lifewithoutacentre.com.


Jeff Foster shares from his own awakened experience a way out of seeking fulfillment in the future and into the acceptance of "all this, here and now." He studied astrophysics at Cambridge University. Following a period of depression and physical illness, he embarked on an intensive spiritual search that came to an end with the discovery that life itself was what he had always been seeking.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Author's Note xi

Part I Awakening to Deep Acceptance

The Wholeness of Life 3

Why Do We Suffer? 19

The Ocean of Acceptance 51

An Exploration of Present-Moment Awareness 67

Part II Deep Acceptance in Everyday Life

Pain and Illness 125

Love, Relationships, and Radical Honesty 159

Addictions 241

The Search for Spiritual Enlightenment 275

About the Author 287

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