Is it safe to live life with an open heart, whatever fear and vulnerability we feel? This dialogue describes how living this way, no matter how it can seem to turn our world upside down, is actually the beginning of the life we were born to live.
Year: 2013
All the ways that we can be honest – but only so far – show up in this dialogue, but it’s only core-splitting honesty that takes us all the way to what we really are. It’s the end of reality as we’ve known it, and the beginning of a very different life.
Q: I heard a blackbird singing and felt a little envious because he’s doing what he purely is, and he will die without complaint having done all he could. That’s what we try to accomplish, and I sensed that this is what you do….
Q: Hi, John. Yesterday I heard you say that being alive in this body is the biggest opportunity to grow in awareness. I would like to know what would be helpful for me to grow in that way. John: By you letting your evolution…
For the most part, emotional pain is considered something to be avoided. But what if emotional pain was actually an invitation to something much deeper? In this dialogue John illustrates how profound honesty in the midst of pain is a pathway to what we really are.
A woman asks how to open her heart despite the fear and pain she experiences. John describes how opening beyond any comfort zone and giving all of your power to your heart is the transformation and ultimately, healing of your self.
Is it important to be close to someone who can help me deepen my awareness, or can I do it myself? John explains what it is about proximity to a living example that works, and how it accelerates entrance into what we know matters most.
Q: I’m afraid to speak in front of people. When I was a child I didn’t speak and I want to learn how to do it. John: You have a difficulty with speaking because speaking makes you vulnerable. It makes you feel exposed and…
A woman is experiencing a new, subtle sexuality in her body not connected to want and need but to qualities of dearness and love. John speaks about this deeper sexuality, its connection to her heart, her being, and how it all empowers her deeper womanness – the ability to meet and commune.
How can a person with strong mental conditioning connect to their heart? Through the example of loving someone, John shows the questioner how to be in his heart and, despite shyness and embarrassment, let it come into his face, filling his body and changing his thinking.
How does one deal with the emotional trauma of sexual abuse? What is the value of our past and its memories? In this deep and intricate dialogue, John shows us how opening in the present can heal the past, reconfiguring our body and our self.
A question about the self, how to be free of it, free of being ‘selfish”. How to stay in the peace that isn’t of the self, and what is the distinction between the heart and the self.
