Could simply trusting in existence be the key to happiness and peace? Using an analogy from nature, John explains how easy it is draw a false conclusion about the source of awakening and realization.
Topic: Feelings & Emotions
Two young people put their questions to John at an open mic: Q1: What is fear? John: When you focus on something that’s not nurturing and real inside, then you separate from what’s nurturing and real. As soon as you’re separate from what’s nurturing…
Q: I get carried away by narratives, especially in a conversation. It compels me to follow the word content even though the being points in a different direction. I get into a dissonance that I can’t stand, so I have to either close down…
“If it isn’t natural, immediate and beautifully easy, you’re making it too difficult.” Discover what John is referring to in this conversation about whether intense fear can prevent us from living from the heart.
Q: My question is about how to deal with pride, how to dissolve it without dismissing what I am. John: Mark your words. Take care in what you use words for, and why. Don’t say things just because you can. If you have a…
Q: I’d like to ask about stress and tension in my daily life, and about relaxation and softening. I get very busy but feel the call towards softening. Listening to your words makes me feel so happy, and that part of me is more…
Q: I don’t know how to get into my heart. I understand how that happens naturally just before I fall asleep, but how do I be in my heart in the midst of all my feelings, without judging from the head? John: If you…
Others’ anger in his relationships or at work always leaves this person feeling hurt and guilty. Why is this, and how can he live with his super-sensitivity?
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November 19, 2022
“There’s only one right and it’s absolute: the real, any of it, all of it, has right to any and all of you. But it won’t use it.” Trust is an emotion; it may or may not be a result of knowledge Relaxing…
Q: I have a longing for wholeness and integration, and an awareness of a lot of suffering and chaos caused by self-avoidance. I know there’s massive anger sitting in my gut. How can it be integrated into my being, and how can that become…
In this delicate meeting, John shows this person how he can be free of an illusory, long-held story of loss that has become physicalized in his body.
Q: What is the difference between feeling and emotion? There’s thinking and feeling and willing … why emotion? John: Emotion is more complex than feeling. Feeling is direct and simple. Emotion is combined with ideas. There’s a thought formation that makes emotion what it…
