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“Meditation is not the pursuit of pleasure, nor the search for happiness…”
- J. Krishnamurti

"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at the table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked – it has no choice. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet.” -- Franz Kafka

“Do not be a meditator. When you sit, let it be. When you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.” -- Ajhan Chah

Life is so close you can’t see it. Don’t be the rider who rides all night and never sees the horse beneath him. -- Rumi

"True meditation has nothing to do with getting rid of anything in present experience. True meditation has nothing to do with changing present experience, or manipulating present experience. It has nothing to do with transforming present experience, or escaping present experience, or even becoming something. It’s got nothing to do with achieving some different state, some altered state, some transcendent state. It’s got nothing to do with getting rid of feeling, or getting rid of thoughts, or getting rid of anything. True meditation is not actually a doing at all."
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"There is nothing more glorious than the beginning of the path. Your heart soaring with possibility, you take that first baby step into the unknown. Trembling but alive, you walk.

It was never about getting to the end, reaching the finish line, it was always about falling in love with the beginnings. And life is always a beginning. Each step, each breath, each brand new day, each invitation to surrender, each sunset, each dawn, each wave of joy or sorrow, each chance to trust.

The ocean's waves do not end, they only fall back into their ocean, their Source, emerging again, falling, playing like children of infinity, held in unspeakable love. From the perspective of the Source, nothing has happened at all, except the dance. Endings are beginnings and beginnings are endings, here in the vastness of presence.

At the intersection, we meet. I don't know you, and you don't know me. Brought together by destiny or chance, we dance in the ocean's depths." - Jeff Foster