Life Is Not About Getting What I Want

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Life Is Not About Getting What I Want

Dr Louis Koster With John Kremer

Dr Louis Koster

Jun 27, 2023

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Excerpt of the Podcast:

John Kremer:

And you wrote, you said, "To be fully alive is to be in tune with what is real and true. To be fully alive is to be in tune with the unmanifested. Life is not about getting what I want. Life is about being in tune with what is real." I like that expression.”

Louis Koster:

“Great. Yes, yes. Well, you said it all. That's where it is the possibility of living an authentic life is it just be yourself, and there is nothing that needs to be added to... That's everything. To be in this place where you are yourself. There is no longing or no desire for something else. It is the thinking that creates the desire and the longing, which when you engage with it, only takes you away from your true being.”

John Kremer:

“You actually wrote about that, you said, "With giving up all attachments, I give up the illusion of control for what is happening in my life. With giving up the illusion of control, I surrender to being. In surrendering to being, I give up the separate self. I experience the peace of being myself."

Louis Koster:

“Yes.”

John Kremer:

“Again, I thought that was a wonderful expression. I know you want to say, "Wow, what a wonderful expression." But it is.”

Louis Koster:

“Yeah. Well, that is the gift of being, the gift of being yourself. Then there is nothing to say, and that is what makes it so difficult to bring it to communication, so to speak. Because this is beyond language. This is beyond description, and in this context, I can only point to what is worthwhile to have a look at in your life, as in to really inquire into what is real and what is not real, and it's only in that discovery that at some point you land in a place of authenticity that you might recognise as being yourself.”

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Dr Louis Koster, distinguished humanitarian, poet, bestselling author served for over ten years as a medical doctor for “Doctors Without Borders” and other humanitarian organizations in trouble spots across the globe. For his humanitarian efforts, Dr. Koster has received numerous awards and has appeared on radio, television, and news shows.

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