From struggle to love: John explains how to be at rest in your heart, no matter what mistrust or fears of rejection seem to be in the way.
Location: India
What is to be done when the busyness of life seems to steal the preciousness of pure awareness that this person longs for, and is it possible for her to bridge these two very different levels?
Q: I feel so coarse in my self. It barely reflects anything of what’s in my heart and it’s like trying to drive with the emergency brakes on. John: The essence of containment is that you have need of nothing. That frees you to…
Q: I’d love to hear you speak about learning. John: Real learning takes place in your self. It comes about when you in your self are informed by what you really are. The learning in your self takes place when something of your self…
This conversation illuminates the way our conditioned relationship to experience solidifies a life of illusion and how we can shift to seeing the truth in any experience.
Q: I found myself in a very complicated and difficult relationship, needing effort to soften and love in the face of aggression. I moved away some months ago. That seems right because I don’t fit in the relationship, yet there is still an attachment…
Q: I’ve received so much from being in the presence of masters, and life has showered me with grace. There have been weeks of total silence in my mind, but the experience stopped for some reason and I long to have it again. At…
Q: I’ve hungered for my true home my entire life. It didn’t exist anywhere in the outer world, and I couldn’t find it within myself either. I’ve struggled to fill this vast emptiness, but nothing does. I’d like your help to remove the crutch…
Q: I’d like to ask about knowing and how to walk in it. Being in knowing in my old nervous system is making a new spine of straightness in me, and the fluid in the spine is pure womanhood or deeper sexuality. Please show…
Q: I try to live with an open heart and a soft one, but it’s still weak and I know that an open and soft heart isn’t weak. I still search for shelter from the strong, dark or fearful influences of the world. Do…
Q: Over the last year I’ve felt a lot of my old priorities and values drop away and be replaced with things that I felt to be true. Over time and in day to day life I’ve felt myself lose touch with those things…
Q: I’m moving to a house in the middle of the forest and very close to the sea. It’s like a calling for me. I’m so looking forward to being more connected to the earth and to nature in my daily life. John: You’re…
