Q: I try to live with an open heart and a soft one, but it’s still weak and I know that an open and soft heart isn’t weak. I still search for shelter from the strong, dark or fearful influences of the world. Do you know how I can
Q: I know that I love truth more than anything else, but when I see myself going into dishonesty it feels like if you offered to help me in that moment, I would ask you not to save me from the world, but to save the world from me.
Q: I want to ask you about grief. I remember you telling us about the importance of pain or letting ourselves feel hurt because it lets us into our hearts and our beings, keeping open and soft, but what is the effect of grief when we mourn someone we
Q: I’m struggling with separating from the father of my children. There is a big split in me. John: It’s nothing that tenderness can’t take care of. Q: We’re stuck in a stalemate. Sometimes there’s a movement from him of reconciliation, and from me there's both a searching for
Q: Ten years ago, you said I was on the verge of becoming what I was born to be, and a there was a big change. A shift happened, but I know I held back. A rebelliousness came up, a little childhood thing. It’s so clear to me what
Q: I need help opening my heart. (Crying) I haven't been able to. John: Then wherever you go, give it. Giving your heart puts you in your heart. If you seem to not know how to open your heart, give your heart. As soon as you’re giving your heart,
Q: You’ve spoken about understanding the world and how it works, and then both moving and seeing beyond it. This world is hardly understandable for me, so can you guide me a little in how to be with my child as he starts to discover the world? John: By
Q: I’ve been going to workshops on awareness, and it excited me a lot. Awareness is my utmost interest or priority, and yet it seems to have drifted into a flattened place, so I wonder if I am putting up a defence or I have become lazy. John: Once
Q: I’ve been engaged in the business world and always felt called upon to use my intellect and leave my truth behind. I concluded I’m not cut out for the corporate world but have just been contracted to lead a similar organization. I have to let them know my
Q: I feel I closed off my sensitivity very young, and later in life closed it off even more. I’d love to connect with it fully, and really live what I know. John: Nurture the little within your self. When you have some measure of tender delight, within, then
Q: We talked many years ago. Although I don't remember my question to you, I know that tears streamed down my face most of the time and the essence of what you said really resonated with me. Now, many more years have gone by, and I don’t think I’ve
Q: A little while ago someone was talking about madness or becoming insane, and that happened to me. I was searching for something and I became mad, and I damaged my self a little bit. If you find that you’re moving further and further from your self into self-corruption,
