Top 151 Quotes & Sayings by John de Ruiter - Page 2

When you're all in, you will know sweet vulnerability.

Awareness returning home is awareness being enfolded by what it knows.

What is deeper is warmer. When you’re looking for what is deeper, add warmth.

Prayer doesn’t work in the way that you think. If you pray for good health and it is genuine, you might be coming into sickness. The essence of good health has to do with a most delicate well-being.

There’s no mystery to integrity. There’s no mystery to oneness. When there is a core-splitting honesty, right there, awareness knows.

Love doesn't need to be answered, It just quietly and freely gives.

When you are gentled and quieted in your heart, you are incapable of relating to disappointment, incapable of feeling sorry for your self.

If you move as a being in every experience of your self, your being replaces your self.

You cannot dwell in your being while your self inhabits your heart.

In being meaning, you naturally find meaning in everything.

When you really love, that makes you feel unsure in your self, even though it is love that reaches your heart.

When you believe what you know, you love.

In a real relationship the two of you are together, meeting without your histories.

In all of its vulnerability, profound sincerity does, in its relationship to knowledge, find its way.

When you move as openness and softness of heart you’re moving in this life within your self in the same way that your being is. When you move as openness and softness of heart, you are all the way into the surface moving and growing, developing as oneness.

Surrender to what you know and you'll know more.

Realization is more important than understanding

The truth within moves as intimacy of being.

Put together every little bit of goodness that you have known and you have your being.

When you are known, what you are is activated.

The formless cannot be based on the form. The form needs to be based on the formless.

Where there's self importance, there's only a very little bit of you and that little bit is distorted. It's in a holding pattern that is false to what it knows. That holding pattern forbids you, in that little bit of you, from being the rest of you.

Embodying your being is you earning your own being, earning your being in your body.

When you're true to your heart, you're infusing your self with meaning.

The known unseen within becomes structural in what is seen: a being functioning as a self, in person, in this world.

Love is not an experience. Love is what you are.

Surrender to the deepest level within that you're aware of.

Openness and softness of heart loves what it knows

Live finding each other in what you haven’t yet found, seeing each other in a way that you haven’t yet seen, reaching within to find the more. In the more you find the more of each other.

You simply cannot trust or refer to your experience of your self to tell you what you are, to tell you the truth within.

Your mind is like a servant to you. Whatever you are being in the midst of your mind, your mind is going to be the same to you.

When your heart softens and opens, your being becomes matter in your self. That is the change of matter and what matters to you in your self will change.

What you are is the most subtle delicacy of being.

The heart that is at rest grows and develops from anything.

Your self is yours to integrate. To integrate your self you need to be, in the midst of your experience, a little bit like your own being.

The more that you need a relationship, the less you are able to be in a relationship. The more that something on the surface can answer you, the less that you will be really answered when you're in it.

Integrate the unseen of what you first are in the midst of all things seen.

What you really are isn’t loyal to your self. It won’t favor your self. It will turn your self into what you really are.

When you love what’s deeper, your response is direct. There won’t be a fear in dropping directly into the deeper.

When a drop of water touches a drop of water there is no holding back - it joins. Water responds to water. Your being responds to what is the same, outside of you, as your own being.

The place of connection or separation in relationship to your own being, the place in your self where this occurs, is in your heart.

Let your sexuality move in whichever way it does. Do nothing to guide it or control it. What brings it into balance is you being in your heart in the midst of it.

Everyone starts out with a little self, and it costs everything to move past that little self. It costs the life of the little self to be the life within that's deeper than that little self.

Whatever your orientation is, it is working on everything around you.

Relationship means you give all of your heart.

The more honest you are, the more quieted you are within.

Once you’re facing the direction of the deep within, awareness enters without a thought.

Where you quietly know within, you have no choice.

Looking and seeing do not originate in your self. You are able to look in your self because looking and seeing are before your self.

When you are in your heart, you love.

Where your life ends, your being doesn’t. Where your being ends, you don’t. That is what is able to have and move your forms.

The more that you're knowing, the more you will be feeling and seeing, the more that you will hurt in your heart, and in your self. Deep heart understanding replaces your need and your holding of personal truths.

The more that you are being your ideas, the less human you are. The deeper your realization, being in your heart, the more of your humanness you come into.

Believe only what you know and all of what you know.

Well-being is like water moving down hill. When you block the water, the water turns into a reservoir, reservoir of well-being instead of a flow of well-being. To well-being it doesn’t make a difference.

There is only one real comfort and it’s not a feeling. It is the comfort of oneness.

You can fulfill your whole life in one hour of inner seeing.

In this there are no options, just response, awareness responding to knowing. All the way in and all the way out. This isn’t of the earth - this is of the everything.

The unfolding code of what you really are occurs every time you go to sleep.

When you come from your heart in the midst of your self and in your life, you’ll be like a salmon turning and going upstream. You’ll be going against the stream. You’ll be going against what your self is like. In that way, you are training your self, your conditioning and the streams of your self.