Q: What you’ve been speaking to us about, beingness, I resonate with and find it easy sometimes, but there are two different worlds that I seem to be living in: one is that, and the other is the day-to- day work and kids and busy-ness. I want to know if you would speak to meshing those two worlds.
John: Just one, sweetly, before the other – the one sweetly mattering more than the other in a way that is, in weakness, immovable. Your life and your self as you’ve known it, will pass away. What you really are, and your being, won’t. That tells you what your self and your life are for. Your self and your life belong to what won’t pass away, but you won’t be in that unless you’re living that.
Whatever it is that you give your energy to is what you mean, in life, regardless of what you think. That makes your mental beliefs of little import. What will really matter in your last hour deathbed, when you’re quieted in it, is not so much what you’ve done with your life and what you’ve done with your self. What will matter to you is what you’ve done with your heart, and, deeper than that, what you’ve done with your awakenings. To bring the two together, live with your death dearly in your heart. It helps you to see what you, deep within, know matters most.
Q: My mind goes to: how do I act and what do I do? What do I make of my life?
John: First, it doesn’t really matter what you do with your life. What career you have matters little. Any creative venture that you enter matters little. What you are being in the midst of whatever it is you do matters everything.
When you’re open and soft in your heart, when you’re being what you really are, you absolutely will do. There’s no greater impetus to doing and to action than being what you really are in the midst of whatever self you have. It’s what you easily see in little children. They don’t need a plan for their day. You could curtail whatever it is that they’re doing and they’ll just spring to life in something else. It doesn’t actually matter much to them what they do. They love doing – if they’re still at home, within.
You know how to merge the two. You used to be really little. No one had to teach you how. That’s when you were easily happy without a reason, and that creatively showed up in whatever you did. Whatever it is that you do in your life belongs to your being. Move into a personal sense of sovereignty and then it wouldn’t matter what you do, you’ll easily get lost.
654 – Constantly Evolving: No Longer a Ship Without a Sail
To be a ship without a sail is to be moved by any wind that blows. John uses this metaphor to illustrate the importance to our evolution of being finely attuned to our highest values in every step we make.
653 – Materializing the Spaciousness of You
If what I really am is spaciousness, why do I need this body? John answers this and other fundamental questions about self-development and manifestation.
652 – Meeting From Your Heart, Your Real Foundation
Feelings of vulnerability and a pounding heart can seem to get in the way of openly meeting with others. Why is that, and how can it change?
651 – Less and Less: The Key to More and More
How can we access the subtlety of truth through the density of patterns and an inflamed nervous system? John explains what first seems like a paradox: the way to more is less.
650 – Awareness in Pure Response: The Movement of Oneness
A conversation about how awareness can be unstoppable on its way to oneness. You can go the long way or the short way, and John describes them both.
649 – Letting Go of Judgment: The Sweet Return to Your Heart
A basic question many can relate to: how can I be less judgmental? Here’s John’s response, complete with how making that change is likely to be experienced in one’s self.
