Q: I think my young son is testing boundaries, and he sometimes quite intentionally does things we’ve asked him not to do. He seems to want our reaction or response. John: He wants to play with power, so you need to play back to him…
Year: 2015
John’s core teachings refer to knowing, and being true to what we know. Here’s an introduction to what he means by knowing, and what makes it different from understanding.
Q: I notice in my intimate, sexual relationships that I can be in a moment of openness, comfort and radiance, and then if I’m spoken to in a way that feels aggressive, unkind or mean I’m very quick to close my heart and my…
Q: You speak of awareness and knowing as one, and its movement being love. It doesn’t always have to be spoken in words – just being what we know is enough. Yet words are necessary in this world and you speak them so finely….
Q: I’m trying to get pregnant and for a few years I’ve been having fertility treatments. It’s not happening, and I wonder how to deal with that. It feels like it’s taken everything from me. John: It’s taken everything from you because you’re making…
Q: When physical death comes, what are the actual consequences of how we’ve used the opportunity of this life? John: Don’t wait for that! The real consequence is that you will have forfeited your real, magnificent opportunity to evolve as awareness. You’re in this…
Q: I’d love you to speak more about the relationship of the being, the soul, the spirit, and love. John: What matters more than anything – what matters more than your self, what matters more than your whole life, what matters more than your…
Q: Earlier this year I had a vision of having a wife and two children in about ten years’ time. Now, my girlfriend and I are four months into her pregnancy – a little earlier than expected – and it’s pushing our evolution, for…
Q: When I was very young, I got lost on a crowded beach and was separated from my family. I remember feeling very frightened, alone and disconnected from other people. I realize that ever since that time I’ve continued to feel that way: frightened,…
Q: My question is: what is it that I most need to hear? John: The tiniest little bit that’s never changed. Throughout the decades of your life it’s been a constant, and without realizing it in your mind and in your understanding, it’s also…
Q: I’m longing to know the purpose of my life. John: You don’t need one. It’s only in your self that you’re able to even comprehend a sense of purpose. When you can be happy without any reason at all, you’re just beginning to…
Q: Can sex be a pure expression of love? Whenever I have a relationship and it involves sex, something always goes wrong. I don’t know how to solve this. John: By being in your sexuality without connecting the movement of your sexual energy to…
