John Quotes

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

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

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.

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

Realization is more important than understanding

What you are is the most subtle delicacy of being.

Where you quietly know within, you have no choice.

The truth within moves as intimacy of being.

In being meaning, you naturally find meaning in everything.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

You cannot have a perfect mind. You can have a perfect heart.

The movement of you brought forward is love.

As soon as there's pain, you know the gold is just beneath.

As much as everything can seem to be about patterns in your self and others, within the drama of all that, it's really all about knowing.

Let your heart believe only what nurtures you.

The deeper within that you are coming from, the higher the perspective you’ll be able to have.

It's true for you to soften within, to let your heart open, to let your heart soften.

The more open you are within, the more capacity you will have to know, to see, and to love.

You don't come into the more without responding to what you already know.

What touches your heart is meaning.

When you lay down your life for what you are after you've died, you're clean.

The emanation of what you are is love.

When you are unconditionally open and soft in your heart while your self empties and while your self fills, you live fulfilling the law of containment.

You are able to come from openness and softness in an instant.

When your heart is open and soft, it isn't actually vulnerable: it can withstand anything.

Where there is movement, there is reach. Reach engenders communion.

When you respond to your heart you are responding to love.

If you don't abdicate or misuse your power, pressure takes you into realization.

If you set something free and it comes back to you, that's the beginning of it being yours.

Relate to the little instead of relating to the big. The little is indomitable.

The best that you can do for your mind is to have no in-between state in your heart.

The evolution in each of us isn't separate from each other.

Oneness means that as awareness, your relationship with knowing is clean. Then for you to know is for you to be.

Your whole life is really only all about that dear place in you where you know you’ve realized, you love, and you are reached.

For your self to become pure, give everything to what is already pure in you.

Granted, terrorism is a real problem everywhere. But you can't prevent it. Terrorists are nutcases who are hellbent on killing people for ideology. That's pretty hard to stop.

I really am a firm believer that if you're going to do something musically, you really need to know what that music would have sounded like, what those instruments would have been.

There's sometimes a little bit of a trap to limit yourself for an audience.

If Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker had teamed up to write epic fantasy, something like Split Heirs might have resulted.

Learn to live well, that thou may'st die so too; To live and die is all we have to do.