Something this questioner sees in a TV nature program overturns all of his ideas of good and bad, right and wrong, taking him behind the facade created by his core beliefs. In this dialogue, John travels with him through the creation and power of these false structures, the shocking effects of unveiling their illusory reality, and shows him how to build what is real through an unconditional return to the heart.
“Your whole make-believe garden that exists in your interior – all put together by you, adopted from others – all of that needs to pass away for you to have a real garden of meaning within.”
“The most powerful opening of your brain and your nervous system is reserved for your being becoming physical.”
“All that you are in your self is openness and softness. All that you are is beingness. All that you are is a being. It’s that or your return to your self-importance, and right there you’re also back on your leash.
“When you open and soften in the midst of your boundaries and filters, you begin to see the veils in your self. Without the boundaries, the filters, and deeper than that, the veils in your self, you move only as love.”
“What is integrated is all one, and it is your walk in a world that isn’t like that yet. It’s like a light in a dark place.”
“When you are unconditionally open and soft in your heart while your self empties and while your self fills, you live fulfilling the law of containment.”
“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
