An Extraordinary Absence Quotes

“Love says “I am everything”. Wisdom says “I am nothing”. Between the two, my life flows. - Nisargadatta Maharaj”
― Jeff Foster, An Extraordinary Absence

“The life you are trying to understand is identical with the ‘you’ that is trying to understand it.”
― Jeff Foster, An Extraordinary Absence: Liberation in the Midst of a Very Ordinary Life

“the one who wrote this book is the one who is reading it”
― Jeff Foster, An Extraordinary Absence: Liberation in the Midst of a Very Ordinary Life

“And you look down, and you find yourself perched on a chair. and there is the sense that the chair doesn't have to be there, but it is anyway. and there is only gratitude for it all. you look down, and my goodness, there is a chair there, offering itself, supporting you unconditionally, asking nothing of you. what grace! the chair doesn't care who you are. who you think you are. it doesn't care what you've done or haven't done. it doesn't care what you've achieved, or haven't achieved. what you believe or don't believe. it doesn't care if you're a success or failure. if you've reached your goals, or not. it doesn't care whether or not you think you're enlightened. it doesn't care what you look like, what clothes you are wearing. it doesn't care whether you are sick or healthy, whether you are a buddhist or a jew, or a christian. whether you are young, or old. whether you understand or don't understand. it only offers itself, unconditionally. this message isn't complicated. it's there in something as simple and common place as a chair. and not just the chair, but all things. all things offer themselves unconditionally. the secret is this: life is not life at all. it is an offering. and right now, it offers THIS, the present moment.”
― Jeff Foster, An Extraordinary Absence: Liberation in the Midst of a Very Ordinary Life

“For so long there had been a deadness. For so long I’d sat back and watched the world go by without me. The world had become the enemy, because it wasn’t essentially real. Everyday human”
― Jeff Foster, An Extraordinary Absence: Liberation in the Midst of a Very Ordinary Life

“What you were always longing for is already staring you in the face and doesn't look anything like you expected it to.”
― Jeff Foster, An Extraordinary Absence: Liberation in the Midst of a Very Ordinary Life