Q: I had a call from my 21-year-old daughter who left home a year ago, telling me she needed to talk to me and she’s in a lot of pain. I could feel it in myself; it seems we’re in some kind of symbiosis…
Month: June
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…
VOD
June 20, 2022
“If love means more to you than concern, then love will flow more than concern will move.” The first level of care for your form is in your orientation Caring for physical health: what is most healing for the body? A gentled heart…
VOD
June 20, 2022
“It is you, awareness, in the midst of all of existence given and mastered by what is before your personality, your self and your heart. It produces a cosmic self.” Dependence and independence concerning your interior Drawing deeper within than your heart Planetary…
John’s description of the potential of the ego sounds very different from the way we usually think of it, and reveals its true place in the whole of us.
VOD
June 6, 2022
“As it comes in, it doesn’t come in with force, it doesn’t come in to accomplish, it doesn’t come in with intent. The only way that it can come in is in absolute weakness, effortlessly.” Response to the calling; the cleaning out of…
VOD
June 6, 2022
“Everything is subject to change except your core, and it’s the only thing that you’re coming from. That makes your self, your life, a self and a life of change.” Moving from a clean orientation and an objective mind Making choices: everyone knows…
VOD
June 5, 2022
“In all things, let dearness have her way.” Not holding to familiarity relaxes the mind Volunteering: it gives more energy to giving than getting Love’s remedy for being upset about losing money Your mind opens when your heart does Don’t be better for…
Love. An eternal quality most of us have wondered about, longed for, wanted to be filled with. John describes what it is and isn’t, and how we naturally return to it every day without even realizing.
Q: I want to ask you about grief. I remember you telling us about the importance of pain or letting ourselves feel hurt because it lets us into our hearts and our beings, keeping open and soft, but what is the effect of grief…
Are you ready to be your deeper truth? The person in this dialogue felt there were things he needed to do first, and now feels the pain of having made that choice. He and John explore what got in the way and how to move forward.
Q: Ten years ago, you said I was on the verge of becoming what I was born to be, and a there was a big change. A shift happened, but I know I held back. A rebelliousness came up, a little childhood thing. It’s…
