Being from the inside out

When John's overseas, it's so good to connect with him via the live broadcasts and I enjoyed getting together with friends on Saturday to watch the evening meeting in Germany.  It was lovely to drop deeper within and be reminded again of what's most important.  John spoke to one questioner of "being from the inside out" - that it's what you're being in your heart that informs what you're being in your self...  And I see that it's when we take the conditioned thoughts and feelings of the accustomed self to heart that we're doing the opposite of what we Know - and that's when we add to the negativity so prevalent in this world.  But when we're quieted and gentled within and more honest inside, we're able to connect with something so lovely (although not understood) and that loveliness is of our own Being - which brings real nurture, transmitted first to our own self and then out into the world.  That's being from the inside out - being what is real and good and clean; quite an altogether different offering to that of an accustomed self reacting to life through wrong conditioning.  When we're coming from what we Know in our heart it's a much lovelier contribution for sure.  It's never a good feeling when I see that I've been coming from a conditioned reaction in myself and being somehow negative as a result ...
Thankfully John's back giving meetings here this weekend - as he continues to remind me (and all of us) how to live from the heart ...


Until next time,
Love,
Shanti