“Your Being is real and it gets to have everything. It gets to have your preferences, your person, and all of your plans.”
“For you to be in your heart is simple.” Two questioners respond to John’s teachings on purity of heart and how that moves in the stream of this world.
Grandfather and grandson speak with John of their realizations and difficulties and the conversation reveals how they can live now for what they will know at the end of their lives.
“With all of your control being given to what you know, all self-created suffering is gone.”
“Prerequisite to you being a being is you, in your heart, being the same as what your being is like, with that being the touchstone in your self and in your life. Everything is in the preparation.”
“Be safe for those who don’t like you.” A short and extraordinary teaching on safety and trust.
John speaks of the power of being in response to what we most deeply know. “Love, and you fulfill it. Think about it and you fulfill your relationship with thought.”
“Response to knowing is what opens you. Whatever that means, wherever that goes, you’re in.”
“My sole purpose is to be, in life, what we are after we’ve died. Through openness and softness of heart and core-splitting honesty at any personal cost, I live as that while actualizing the same in others I meet. I am available as a resource for anyone who recognizes and values this way of being.”
– John de Ruiter
