John Quotes

I'm not really a goal-oriented guy. I started doing the Mountain Goats just for the sheer hell of it.

I don't write my own publicity materials, I just read 'em and give 'em the OK.

For me, moving is always a big opportunity. Its just a enough of a shift in outlook that every time I move, it seems to open something up.

I think The Sunset Tree is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important.

Back in the 90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.

Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I dont feel everybody can connect to.

I am now reading Cooper's Naval History which I find very interesting.

The Devil is kind to his own.

For you to access your own innermost as awareness is for you to surrender form after form after form, enabling you as awareness to recede to what you first are, for you to be meaning.

To really evolve as awareness, be just like your own being in a self like yours and on a planet like this one.

With real relationship within, you are as delicateness really listening.

The more that you bypass of your own mechanisms, the more in your self that will come apart.

If you die of cancer with only openness and softness in your heart, you will live and die integrating your self.

With your reorientation as awareness, difficulty calls upon your resources - not first the resources that you're familiar with, but the resources of your own being.

What moves you, you move. That brings your sexuality into your being, through your heart, and that movement brings your being, through your heart, into your self.

The source of love isn’t in your self. It isn’t in your experience. It’s in you.

Let everything that comes your way, help you be new.

Your past determines your future unless you’re clearly moving past your self and responding to what you know in your heart.

When you are being true to what you know in your heart, your whole heart becomes clean.

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

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

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

Relationship means you give all of your heart.

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

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

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

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

When you believe what you know, you love.

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

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

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

When you are known, what you are is activated.

When you are in your heart, you love.

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.

Openness and softness of heart loves what it knows

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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