“When you are being true to what you know in your heart and not true to anything else, your whole heart becomes clean. You are as awareness, in all of your heart, whole. No split. You have oneness of heart. That is greater than enlightenment.”
“Your mental state is determined by what you are in your body. What you are in your body slowly conditions your body and conditions your mind, how your mind functions. What you are in your body affects your own chemistry.”
“Notice within what matters more to you than physical pleasure. Any touch of your own being touches you in a way that physical pleasure doesn’t.”
“Your self isn’t a problem and your self doesn’t need to disappear. Your self on its own is both goodness and innocence.”
“Having an innermost that has ‘quieted say’ all the way through in this life – instead of likes and dislikes, wants and needs, having say.”
In this phone interview with Miles Chambers, John explains his fundamental philosophy and the words that are central to his teaching.
“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
