In this simple, sweet teaching, John describes how to raise a child who will feel safe, seen, and who’ll not need to perform for love.
Location: Amsterdam
John explains what depression actually is and the real opportunity in the midst of it. Instead of focusing on the difficulty, there is something you can do with your attention that is subtle, simple, real and good.
What is real knowledge as distinct from mastering a subject? This is a conversation about real mastery: where it begins, how it manifests, the importance of surrender, and the only way to go.
Q: I’m looking for another job. I want to go my own way and to do what is good for both me and the persons around me, but I don’t have the answer at this moment. Can you help me? John: Do what seems…
A deeper shift within has left this person feeling empty and confused in her life and relationships. John explains why it feels this way and what will support full integration.
Q: We have a lot of stress at home because my husband doesn’t have full time work. We’ve talked about how he gets himself into these situations, but he doesn’t seem to want to hear anything from me. It’s his learning, but it’s also very…
Q: I want to talk about something I’ve been dealing with my whole life. It’s the body I’m living in – my body. Deep inside there’s such a wish to live in freedom with it, but I can’t let some things go. I’m so…
How is it that even in connection with others we can feel alone, or even worse: offended and hurt by others’ ways? The desire to belong and be at home within, while meeting with others, is unravelled in this conversation, showing the way forward that also takes us deeper, bringing with it new perspective.
In this dialogue with an expectant mother, John describes how best to nurture her child both in utero and after the birth, describing the gift of being-to-being connectivity available to her in pregnancy.
Q: I would like to deepen the connection between me and my child, and be more aware in it. Can you help me to do that? John: Be really seen. Reveal your heart and give your heart without embellishment, so that when you’re giving…
Q: For some time I’ve been feeling that my purpose on earth is to help people heal, not as much physically as spiritually. What inside of me needs to open or develop to be able to do so? John: You’re wanting to help people…
Q: It’s a rare opportunity to sit with someone like you and I’m trying to think of the best question. Is there a benefit in verbally asking a question and being answered? John: Anything that is real is worth it. Q: I’ve read…
