Life IS the path- Jeff Foster

Life IS the path.

- Jeff Foster

These days, I find myself completely uninterested in “spiritual teachings.”

Not because I’ve become cynical or arrogant or lost faith, but because I simply don’t need them anymore. That’s the honest truth. Spiritual teachings once spoke to a deep pain in me - the search for peace, for absolute truth, for something sacred and transcendent beyond the noise of daily life.

But now, that longing has completely changed shape. Morphed into something radically different.

The more present I become, the less I crave ideas about presence.

The more I live, the less I need to learn how to live.

Life itself teaches me, every day.

For years, I used spirituality as a way to escape being human - the mess, the relationships, the domestic routines, the ordinary beauty of daily life. I thought enlightenment was somewhere beyond all that.

But now, the real spiritual teachings are right here - not in any holy book, but in the sound of my daughter’s laughter, in the smell of dinner, or in putting out the bins, or in walking in the park at sundown.

The old teachings spoke of “letting go” of attachments to this earthly realm.

No. Life teaches me to become more intimate with this earth - to meet it fully, to love it fiercely, to find the sacred and the transcendent right here, wherever I am, whatever I’m doing, whoever I’m with.

I don’t need a path anymore.