How can we be free of the illusion of self-identity and the non-stop chatter of our self narratives? John’s answer details, in practical ways, the shift from an inner dialogue to a flow of being in your day, likening the right use of mind to watching TV: when you’re done, you turn it off.
“You have only the time in your life here to know, to realize, to be, and to become. And then you die. It’s a short time. The importance of being here in a body, in a self, doesn’t come from your body, your self, your genetics, the development of any of that, and your life. The importance of being here in all of that resides in you. You’re here to be what you are after you’ve died, but while you live, in the midst of levels and levels of physicalized environment that isn’t like you.”
Streams of nurturing goodness came alive within for this man in a previous meeting with John, but then faded away. Why does that happen? John describes how such an awakening to the truth within can mature into an eternal quality of life – if we’re willing to pay the cost.
“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
