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This is re-posted from Jeff Foster’s Quotes page on Facebook. Simply beautiful.
“I remember, early one morning several years ago, while working as a home carer, I found myself washing faeces off a man’s giant, swollen testicles. He was dying of cancer which had spread throughout his testicles and prostate, and in the night he had defecated himself and rolled all around in the mess. We laughed a lot together and we chatted about football and the latest news stories as I cleaned him up. He could barely move, he was so sore and swollen everywhere. He was myself in disguise.
He had a few weeks to live, but he was so alive, so in the here-and-now, without a trace of self-pity. There was no loss of dignity there – there was just what was happening in the moment. He had somehow found a way to deeply accept his circumstances, even though his life had not turned out the way he had dreamed when he was younger and he had time to dream. It took over two hours to get him ready for his day, to hoist him out of his dirty bed, to get him toileted and dressed and into his favourite chair. He didn’t live for long after that. But I will always remember him.
Even when covered in our own shit and without a tomorrow, we are nothing less than divine.”
~ Jeff Foster
powerful.. sad though so many people have to suffer… eve
True, but he doesn’t seem like he’s really suffering. Like he had transcended the body and was already living in the flow of joy, before his body was gone. But I really loved this piece and really all of Jeff Foster’s stuff. If you haven’t checked him out, he has both a blog and a Facebook page and I think you would really love his work. As always, a thousand blessings for coming by and visiting.
i cannot follow anymore blogs.. but can you please give me details of his fb page.. thank you so much. eve
Just do a search on Jeff Foster on FB. He has a public page. I think it’s called Jeff Foster quotes.