586 – What is Free Will?
“There is free will after death, never before.” John explains this rather startling statement and reveals why only love has such freedom.
Q: The relationship I have to a man is very difficult for me and very often I think is it because it’s the wrong man for me or is it because of something inside my self? That question I ask my self and I don’t know what you could tell me.
John: Any time that you have difficulty, the difficulty is first your self. When you experience difficulty it’s because you experience a lack, an actual lack that is there in your self in being able to deal with a person or a situation. The tendency when we experience a lack in our selves is that we focus on what looks like the catalyst to that lack, which is something outside of our selves: a circumstance or another person. As soon as you make it about the other person then you become blind to the actual lack, which is in your self.
If you have a difficult time with someone, it’s not really that other person. It’s you. For example, if your self would be more highly developed and then you spend time with that same person who you had difficulty with before, you’d realize that the difficulty is gone, but their behaviour is still the same. Then you realize that you didn’t have the development of self before to be able to be comfortable, in your self, while with that person.
When you come from a deeper place within, while you’re spending time with someone who triggers your self or triggers lack in your self, when you’re coming from a deeper place the trigger doesn’t exist within that depth. The closer you are relating from within your surface, the stronger that trigger becomes. For instance, the trigger that you experience with someone doesn’t exist in your heart.
When you’re quieted within your heart while you’re with a difficult person, it’s not difficult for you because of what you’re coming from. When you leave your heart and you go into your personality, then your experience of how difficult that person is becomes much more heightened.
When you’re forgiving toward someone, they can be in a negative pattern and you are deeply okay. When you’re unforgiving toward someone, then every little thing that person does in being difficult catches all kinds of triggers in your self. When you’re unforgiving toward someone you’re easily provoked. When you’re coming from a deeper place, you’re naturally more forgiving so from within you you’re given to sweetly overlook things in people, so when someone behaving in a way that would normally be difficult for your self, you’re easily overlooking that and relating to something that’s deeper in them. So then you’re enjoying that person despite their behaviour. When you’re not dependent on his behaviour toward you that relieves him of your self, which also then eases up his behaviour.
The more you come from your heart, the more you like him. The more that you come from your heart, the more that you easily feel for him and the more that you feel him instead of feeling how his self affects your self. If you’re not coming from your heart, everything that he does will bother you. If you’re deeply coming from your heart, everything that he does has little effect on you, and you are right there enjoying him.
If you’re having difficulty with him, instead of focusing on what he’s doing or not doing, you just simply go to a deeper place in you. From within that deeper place, you think differently, you feel differently and you see differently. And that’s without him changing.
Q: Yes, I understand that.
John: If you have a difficult time with someone, that really says something about you, not, first, the other person. When you realize that, then as soon as you have difficulty with someone, you immediately drop deeper within. You drop deeper within by opening and softening.
Q: Yes, thank you.
John: When you come from a deeper place within, instead of having somewhat hard eyes toward him, you’ll easily have soft eyes toward him. The softer your eyes the happier you are.
586 – What is Free Will?
“There is free will after death, never before.” John explains this rather startling statement and reveals why only love has such freedom.
585 – Beyond Your Understood Powers: Your Real Life, Within
“Who am I?” In this dialogue, John is responding to a person who really wants his spiritual search to be over but doesn’t know how that can happen.
584 – The Meaning in Creativity and Service
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.
583 – Finding the Golden Thread Between You and a Difficult Parent
This conversation opens up the difficulty of being with an angry father who still triggers your painful past. Is it okay not to see him, or is there another way forward?
582 – Don’t Be Right and Don’t Be Wrong: Be Together
Relationship can be the grand revealer of all the ways we create separation and struggle. John points out some of the traps, and reveals where real togetherness lies.
581 – Beyond Panic and Stress: Swimming in the Stream of Your Awakening
The stress and panic coming from her extreme sensitivity have eclipsed this person’s experience of her awakening. Why is this happening, and how can she return to her knowing?
“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
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