John reveals how searching for one’s own creative flow in the workplace is to misunderstand the universal quality our creative potential depends on.
Location: Seattle
What’s the connection between the being and the soul, and is there a need for discipline and focus for the soul to evolve?
Q: Can you define innocence for me? John: Unpolarized happiness. Not strongly happy but deeply, quietly, subtly happy, in a way that isn’t because of a positive or the escape of any negative, so there’s no polarization to it. It’s happy without any reason…
In this busy world of computers, phones and increasing technology, how can we listen to the heart and stay committed to inner truth? John shares a tiny shift in relating that makes it easy in the midst of any kind of pressure.
This conversation is a simple introduction to the basics of John’s teaching, including a question for John about his own journey. In it, he describes how he returned to what he knew without any understanding: in his own words, “not even a clue.”
Q: My question is regarding the heart. When sadness or pain comes I go into my heart – it could last for a short time or even days – but when it’s gone I’m back to normal, out of my heart. How can I…
Q: I feel stuck in my patterns. They just keep coming back and back. John: Your patterns will move because of the energy that’s stored in them. It doesn’t matter what patterns you have. All that matters is that despite anything at all that…
Q: I want to ask about technology in our world and finding one’s self. When I’m using computers or my phone it takes me away from being able to listen to my interior. I get distracted and addicted to doing things I don’t care…
Q: You speak of the evolution of the soul and the opportunity of this life, and I want my soul to evolve if that’s why we’re here. Can you, first, remind me of the connection between the soul and the being? John: Both are…
