“You simply cannot trust or refer to your experience of your self to tell you what you are, to tell you the truth within.” Self Author:John de Ruiter
“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.” FirstsFormAwarenessAccessSurrenderEnabling Author:John de Ruiter
“Realization is more important than understanding” ImportantUnderstandingRealization Author:John de Ruiter
“The place of connection or separation in relationship to your own being, the place in your self where this occurs, is in your heart.” HeartSelfConnectionsSeparation Author:John de Ruiter
“In all of its vulnerability, profound sincerity does, in its relationship to knowledge, find its way.” WayDoeProfoundVulnerabilitySincerity Author:John de Ruiter
“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.” LittlesSelfPastMovingCostDeeper Author:John de Ruiter
“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.” KnowsLittlesSelfBitsLittle BitImportancePatternsSelf-importance Author:John de Ruiter
“Your real home isn't your patterned self. It isn't your thinking. It isn't your feeling. Your real home is the deepest within that you know the truth of. Your real home, your only home, is direct knowledge.” ThinkingKnowsRealSelfFeelingsHomeDirect Author:John de Ruiter
“The new ground that you form in your living is a new self, a new self that isn't at all of the middle ground, a lived-in self that has no need of middle ground. That new self makes unseen reality within seen.” NeedsSelfRealityFormMiddleUnseenMiddle GroundNew Self Author:John de Ruiter
“Start out identifying what you know are delicacies of being within, tiny little touches of knowledge that has beingness in it, special soft spots of heart. As soon as you identify them, you need to believe them.” KnowsNeedsBelieveHeartLittlesSpecialTinySpotsIdentifyingDelicacy Author:John de Ruiter