When is compassion self-centred, when is it real, and how can we tell? An exploration of what it means to be truly compassionate.
Location: Poleg Beach
This person feels separate from his essence in daily life, caught up in issues of survival rather than manifesting the creativity and service he believes he was born for.
Awakening can make you feel much worse. John explains why that is, and the profound goodness in what seems like chaos.
The way that a tree moves through autumn and winter to flourish once more in springtime provides the key to how we can move consciously into the source of real and lasting happiness, within.
JdR Audio 402
“The Calling moves by presence and not by power. There is no use of power that can stop it. Every resistance and every response feeds it. It’s how the truth moves.”
“The food for your soul while you’re in a body is difficulty and pressure.” John explains why this is so, why the soul is so difficult to see until after we die, and what our soul’s evolution is dependent on.
For this mother, who is struggling in relation to her teenage daughter, what begins as a hard lesson to learn becomes a beautiful crossroads that will deeply change them both.
John reveals the way in which a tiny bit of warmth, openness and softness can bring about inner transformation, even in the midst of an experience of disintegration and vulnerability.
“Nothing that appears to be comes from what appears to be.” This conversation travels deep into the unseen, revealing the shifts required to know the source of the light, within.
Q: My question is about working with people. I’ve been creating art for many years and I feel things are changing; I want to open more, expand and create with people. Do you have anything to say about that? John: Don’t relate to helping…
This conversation zooms in on the micro-movements of awareness in form, and how it can choose between the addictive power of illusion or the healing power of oneness.
Q: What happens after death to the being? John: After you’ve died, you will purely be what you really are. Q: Why is it important to pursue it in this lifetime? John: The whole point of being born and being here is for you…
