Likening devotion to a river and its many movements, John opens up the meaning of devotion and how it’s able to connect us to our deepest roots, within.
Location: Boulder
John answers questions about how to move in the world without leaving the heart. But what if others think that enjoying life and doing less is irresponsible?
Shame, fear, anger … is it really possible to be okay in any circumstance, even when feeling attacked by others? There is transformative potential, and John explains.
“This is like essence-of-baby, free to have your whole life.” John removes all the delays and false beliefs we place between our selves and the limitless nature of what we really are.
That nervous feeling of being on the brink of transformation is explored in this conversation, revealing the investments placed between our selves and our true home, within.
“If it isn’t natural, immediate and beautifully easy, you’re making it too difficult.” Discover what John is referring to in this conversation about whether intense fear can prevent us from living from the heart.
Q: I don’t know how to get into my heart. I understand how that happens naturally just before I fall asleep, but how do I be in my heart in the midst of all my feelings, without judging from the head? John: If you…
“No matter what, it keeps seeping in.” A conversation showing the endless, transformative ways our being naturally flows into our selves.
Q: Hi, John. It’s good to finally meet you. My question is how do you deal with damage that was done because you were vulnerable, you weren’t expecting it and you were wide open? Maybe when you were younger. John: By most delicately receiving…
Q: What is in the way of shifting all at once to being what we really are? John: Nothing. Believe only what you most deeply, directly know the truth of in your heart and there’s nothing in the way. Without that, your false beliefs…
How can I live in what I know of beingness, and the busy-ness of daily life? John’s response takes the questioner to see what he will know on his deathbed, when what matters most will be clear and can be lived for, now.
What is love? How do we find it? Do we really need it? In this dialogue the questioner asks John to explain his statement “love is not an experience, love is what you are.” In response, John expands on the different kinds of love and how to go beyond the surface and discover a deep and subtle, unconditioned love not based on experience or need.
