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      

When it's your Love

The meetings here on Sunday were so good and John's transmission is steadily increasing in potency ...  I see that more frequently now he is bringing in a subtle stream of newness, or a subtle new dimension - and his transmission in such meetings, attuned to, is simply sublime.  It's soul food for sure.  During Sunday's evening meeting he spoke of relating to what is known to be golden inside, not in any abstract way, but by directly relating to it:

"You let what you know 

is golden take you."

When the questioner spoke of it feeling like the goldeness was buried, John spoke "that means you know it's there.  Buried or not, in you go."

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"When it's your love

there's no amount of dirt or rock 

that'll stop you."

He went on to speak of how Truth isn't golden until it's lived, right into your self, by being what you know in your heart in the midst of your self, at personal cost.  Yes, when you see any old dirt in the self that's covering that gold, it's the love of the Truth that makes it easy to let go, to move past it, to pay the cost - and then you have your Love ...

John's in Coppenhagen today and from there he's off to Horn-Bad, Germany for the four day retreat starting this Thursday, click here for more info on that - and for the rest of us we can always watch the broadcasts.

Until next time,

Love,

Shanti

Almost a Choice

During last night's meeting John invited the questioner to "Come in and see" to which he then replied, "Do you make that a practice?" and John said, "It's not a practice, it's how I live."  Then the questioner asked, "Is it a choice?"  And John said, so quietly, "Almost" and that made me smile - because to me it was yet another of those real signposts reminding us that it is all about subtlety.  The accustomed self that has been fashioned by this world is usually blind to subtlety, aside from a few rare moments, notably when we are in nature and consciously relaxing.  But to attune, as awareness, to any subtle stream of what we know is truly all good in our heart (and beyond), is key to bringing our self and all our other forms that we presently have, into an altogether different expression - no, not of this world.  And yet here we are, up for the challenge, facing difficulties and, if you know, softening in any hardness and tension, returning again and again to that tiny little bit that you know the truth of in your heart (without understanding).  John has spoken countless times of this and, on this Blog, so have I - but it's good - we need reminding again and again and again - because we certainly are not reminded out in the world, to be True, to come from what we know the truth of in our heart.  As we attune to such subtle loveliness that we know needs no reason for it's inherent qualities of love and peace, we are touched in our heart within; we Know it; we love It ...  Yes, it's not quite a choice, it's more immediate than that, and more subtle, it's what we Know ...

Until next time,
Love,
Shanti 

Sweet surrender to what you Know

For many of us life continues to present challenges and difficulties throughout which the opportunity to evolve as awareness continues.  Having recently come out of a somewhat difficult stretch myself, I realize more deeply how Knowing has to become my life - willingly surrendering everything that is not in alignment with that lovely quieted Knowing within.
During Friday's meeting John spoke beautifully about surrendering to what you Know the truth of in your heart, in the midst of the difficulties we are faced with in this world:

"It's when you are in absolute surrender

to what you know in your heart

that you absolutely love

what you know in your heart.

There isn't anything else

that matters first and matters more."

 

When we allow ourselves to soften and become more gentled inside, more quieted and honest within, that tiny little bit of Knowing is what soothes and nourishes us the most and it's what we deeply Know is Home.  Nothing outside is ever going to satisfy and nourish us like what we Know ...

 

Until next time,

Love,

Shanti