Questions About Spiritual Awakening
There isn’t a process in awakening to and entering the deep within. We have all been in that which we’re looking for. You can see it in little children, really little children…
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Are You Romanticizing Spirituality?
July 21, 2021 @ 12:00am
“The truth within is first all romanticized, until you’re in the desert, where all self-consolation, self-promise, self-hope has expired, and there you are in the quietude of your heart in a depth of listening within. You need no results. You need no fruit. You need no light at the end of the tunnel. You need no promise of anything. All you are is true. There’s nothing else to you, and the beingness of that is love. Love, all on its own, naturally undaunted by absolutely anything. That’s what you really are.”
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John de Ruiter Podcast 626
Beyond Success and Failure: Moving from Clarity
February 9, 2018 @ 7:30pm
Is it possible to invest a lot of time and energy in a project and not be caught up with its success or failure? There's a quality of being that makes all the difference, and John explains.
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Transformation: Do Prayer And Meditation Help?
September 7, 2022
Q: What does the role of prayer and meditation have in the process of transformation?
John: It gets in the way. When we pray, we always pray from a place of old ways of thinking. We always pray from a springboard of oldness. Our prayers are about the things that need to change. When we pray for others, it’s about those things that we perceive need to change.
If there would be a true praying, it would be from the perspective of the real you. It would be from the perspective of your own essence. It would be a manifestation of essence, but what your essence would give you and what the you that you’re used to would give you are completely contrary to each other. They can’t even co-exist.
Q: What about the value of meditation and stilling the mind?
John: The mind doesn’t need to be stilled. You don’t need a still mind. All you need is a quieted heart in the midst of your noisy mind.
