A teaching on the simplicity of real presence, exposing the many ways that longing, hope and desire can come between you and what you love the most.
Year: 2000
John meets questions about truth, illusion and surrender, and describes the simplicity of returning to a pure heart and the transparent sweetness of being.
Meeting your growing child’s insistence and willfulness can be very challenging. Where does it come from, and how is the best way to be with it?
Is it possible to live for the truth we know and be in a loving, personal relationship? They can seem mutually exclusive, but John explains why there’s actually a greater opportunity to awaken.
A cancer diagnosis has raised many questions and an avalanche of fear for this person. From John’s perspective, it comes with many opportunities for an unusual depth of healing.
A question about enlightenment develops into an astonishing revelation of what our potential as consciousness really is, and it all begins with being given to the sweetest touch of tenderness.
How can you be around people you care for, but don’t agree with? Dissociation only manifests more separation, and John shares how to stay connected.
John responds to a mother’s wish to understand why her young daughter still seems unhappy, despite her best efforts at parenting.
“There is free will after death, never before.” John explains this rather startling statement and reveals why only love has such freedom.
A classic teaching to treasure: John responds to a question about love, revealing its unique qualities and its connection to truth.
JdR Audio 401
“When you remain being what you really are, then it’s love that realizes the mind. It’s love that lives in it. Then the whole mind becomes an exploratorium for love.”
The idea that enlightenment is dependent on getting rid of all our patterns and conditioning proves not to be true, and John explains what really stands in the way.
