Jeff Foster speaks with Sounds True founder Tami Simon about what he calls the deepest acceptance: the recognition that awareness already allows every emotion and experience to arrive. Drawing on his book The Deepest Acceptance: Radical Awakening in Ordinary Life, he discusses meeting difficult feelings, fear, and another person's suffering with an open embrace, and recounts parts of his own path, including a period of severe depression.
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Tami Simon speaks with Jeff Foster, voted in 2012 by The Watkins Review as one of the world’s 100 most spiritually influential people living today. With Sounds True, Jeff has released a new book, The Deepest Acceptance: Radical Awakening in Ordinary Life, and an accompanying audio program inviting us to discover the ocean of who we are: an awareness that has already allowed every wave of emotion and experience to arrive. In this episode, Jeff explains that we are acceptance, how to work with practical concerns such as financial fears, and the power of being with someone who is suffering—with an absolutely open embrace. Jeff also talks about his own path of awakening, including deep depression and some of his most important discoveries. (90 minutes)