“It’s a to-die-for opportunity.” John explains the value of relating directly to the subtle movement of deeper levels coming together, just beneath a strangely lifeless experience in the self.
566 – Unlocking Your Subconscious: The Healing of Your Self
Awakening can make you feel much worse. John explains why that is, and the profound goodness in what seems like chaos.
565 – Beneath Thought and Feeling: The Beingness of Love
Thoughts and old feelings seem to get in the way of the stillness and love this person knows in her heart. Can that be changed, and how?
564 – A Deeper Understanding of Authentic Creativity
John reveals how searching for one’s own creative flow in the workplace is to misunderstand the universal quality our creative potential depends on.
563 – Devotion: Connecting to Your Deepest Roots, Within
Likening devotion to a river and its many movements, John opens up the meaning of devotion and how it’s able to connect us to our deepest roots, within.
561 – Soul Evolution: Perfect Being, Freed into an Imperfect Self
What’s the connection between the being and the soul, and is there a need for discipline and focus for the soul to evolve?
560 – From Busyness to Beingness: No Longer Abandoning Depth for Doing
John answers questions about how to move in the world without leaving the heart. But what if others think that enjoying life and doing less is irresponsible?
557 – Dealing with a Difficult Person: Where do I Start?
John explains the misunderstanding that’s at work when we’re triggered by someone’s difficult behaviour, and how quickly that experience can change.
556 – Real Listening Within: The Beginning of Love
An extraordinary teaching on the value of listening, and how it connects us to stillness, truth, love and even eternal life.
555 – The Truth About Anger: What it Means to Have Real Self-Control
How can I be with painful feelings of anger and fear? John explains what’s really happening in even the smallest experience of frustration and how to regain real control.
554 – Awakening to Your Source: The Key to True Happiness
The way that a tree moves through autumn and winter to flourish once more in springtime provides the key to how we can move consciously into the source of real and lasting happiness, within.
553 – How to be Truly Grounded
“What’s the best way to stay grounded?” John’s answer to this common question is most uncommon, revealing how to come into the profound relaxation of home, within.
552 – No Aim, No Clue: Your Sweet Return to Simply Being
Two questions: one about the vanishing aim of enlightenment, the other about the effects of being on a computer all day. John’s answer applies equally to both, and it all has to do with enjoying being, within.
“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
