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

 

 

The Simplicity within Complexity

Awake and exploring in the deep in the middle of last night, a few things became ever more clear.  It is at night that, consciously or unconsciously, we return to the Deep; a natural consequence of relaxing and surrendering what we no longer need; that of the person, self, heart - and even our life.  When I am consciously aware in the night of what I am in this expanded and truly in-need-of-nothing state, it is clear that during the daytime there is quite a different embodiment going on.  It's all too easy to get out of bed each moring and the first thing to get put on, so to speak, is the body of the person/self and it's ways of moving in a world similarly predominently dark and distorted.  Such wrongly conditioned embodiment is somewhat hard and the face is subesequently also hard, like a mask of protection against this sea of wrong doing and wrong being both within and without.  It's understandable because it all feels so real - but the truth is that it's just an imaginary prison.
Last night I could see the truth all over again of John's teaching to align as awareness with the 'tiny little bit' that you know the truth of in your heart.  For in daily life, that's the link; the direct link to that all deeper and all true You that you so effortlessly drop into each and every night when you go to sleep (or maybe when you lie awake and conscously explore what you truly are).  To be more IN than the tiny little bit in daily life is increasingly doable for sure, but to simply open and soften and to align as awareness with that tiny little bit - especially when life strongly triggers distorted inherited embodied patterns - that has to be enough, and actually it is.  For it does lead us out of that old embodiment and steadfastly into the new embodiment, the one I wrote of in last week's post.  To be satisfied with that tiny agreement within in the daytime - to the tiny little bit that you know without the need for understanding - that's the simple part.  The complexity is all that old embodiment coming up in ways both micro and not so micro and the on-going transformation of all those old pathways into the correct and true alignment via that tiny little bit ...  Being in that direct simple tiny 'yes' to what you know without needing understanding is the answer and it needs to be your walk if Truth is what has you in this life.  Then all the complexity of the code of deeper Being comes naturally into place, instead of all that old distortion, and it comes behind that simple tiny yes within your own heart ...

During Sunday's meeting I lit up a bit when I heard John say:

"You are the fountain in your life."

 

The deeper true You is indeed a veritable fountain of brightness, of a pure, clean and clear Good that has no opposite, that relates to nothing but itself.  Where the truth of what we are shines brightly, inextinguishable and self evident in its beauty.  In this world full of possibility brilliantly disguised as challenge and limitation, we need only that simple tiny little yes to even a micro dot of that fountain within - that's the way to deep Home, and all beyond this world ...

 

Until next time,

Love,

Shanti

The embodiment of response

It was an interesting meeting on Sunday afternoon, with John bringing in a new aspect to his teaching when he spoke of being able to bring the deepest that we have awakened to right up into the level of the person.  Here are some valuable snippets from that talk:

"As you make personal everything

that you've already come into,

you're turning your person

into your awakening;

into everything you're responding to -

you making your person multi-levelled."

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"The mobility isn't just within -

the within is brought up through the levels,

through your heart, through your self

and unrolled into your person."

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"Your person becoming what you

responded to of what you knew.

By virtue of your person,

you are one.

It's oneness made personal."

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"Your person, given,

is the embodiment of response."

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"Embodiment is continuity

having outermost form."

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"What you know

turns into your lived in perspective

by you making what you know personal."

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"Your way of relating in this world

is by the truth in you embodied."

 

Yes it was an awesome talk and to me it opens up a heretofore never seen before opportunity to evolve at light speed.  Whilst I've been aware of the growing availability of This and the ability to access that More - now I see that there is also an instant doable-ness - of making that higher knowledge manifest in my person.  A kind of instant all different-ness, very cool and (by the way), costing everything we previously kept separate from such higher knowledge by believing it was too deep and far away - not any more!

 

Until next time,

enjoy making rolling it all out easy,

Love,

Shanti

Whilst you have an inside ...

Life is full of opportunities - disguised as challenges and limitation, both big and small.  To successfully overcome these challenges is all an inside job, only doable whilst you have   an inside - after you've died, these opportunities won't be there any more ...

"You don't belong to what

you've learned and collected.

You belong to what you know the truth of.

Direct Knowledge that isn't adorned

with anything in your self or in your life.

You're able, as awareness, pure,

to turn into what you are after you've died.

You're able to enter that while you live -

and from that, you live.

Don't let it be after you've died,

for you to realize what you were in this life for.

In the midst of the myriad opportunities,

the way is one.

Making all of the little opportunities,

that come together in so many ways,

not distractive.

Existence won't inform you

of your actual  opportunity

of being in it.

It informs you of

all of the opportunities

that are not really  it."

 

The above quote is from Friday, day two of the Autumn Seminar, during a meeting in which John was speaking of responding and entering as soon as you Know, to the pure you that has no prior experience.  Yes, beneath the programming, what we are as pure awareness is always fresh and not burdened by the past, able then to freely experience being here in the Matrix without being controlled by it.  Which, in part, is what this seminar has been all about to me; that of a profound letting go of the past - and opening to what is new ... 

 

Before I sign off, I want to mention that the new website is on its way with plans to launch it sometime next month!  I'm also anticipating another dialogue with John very soon - so if you have any questions you would like to contribute, please type it as a comment below - thanks.

 

Until next time,

Love,

Shanti



To be yourself ...

“To be yourself in a world
that is constantly trying
to make you something else

is the greatest accomplishment.” 

 

The above quote is from Ralph Waldo Emerson and it's as true today as it was over a hundred years ago.  Of course, he's talking about being your true self or, as John might say, your first self.  Here's a snippet from a meeting yesterday, when John was speaking once again of being a child of your own heart as being a level of your self that cannot comprehend polarity ...

 

"You see a first self in expression

when you see a baby laugh and smile
- an expression that's pure

and not held together by anything.

Welcome every little touch of that."

 

For sure, being one's true self in this world is no easy task, requiring an on-going process of honest discernment within and a letting go of what's old and no good hanging onto - which reminds me of another great quote from Ralph:

 

 “Finish each day and be done with it.

You have done what you could. 

 Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in;

forget them as soon as you can.

Tomorrow is a new day. 

 You shall begin it serenely

and with too high a spirit

to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

 

Speaking of letting go of what's old feels timely given that we are in the middle of Autumn here; a time when nature shows us just how easy it is to let go.  And the Autumn Seminar begins on Thursday, so let's release what's old and see what's new ...

 

Until next time,

Love,

Shanti

Softening in the squeeze

It seems to me that I am not the only one experiencing something of a continuous squeeze  as life on planet Earth increasingly picks up speed.  Yet I see that I have equally increasing ability to open and soften as soon as any reactivity kicks in - that old habit of hardening and relating to stressful thoughts and feelings.  That softening and returning to what I know is True is right there - a shift so subtle and which changes everything in an instant.  This opening and softening in the midst of any tension is at the crux of John's teaching and is a staple in my daily living.  So as life continues to put pressure on our little selves, we know where the gold is, in that wonderful tiny little bit.  In realizing that the tiny little bit means more to us than whatever is causing the feeling of pressure, it's easy to relax and to soften ...

John's back with us in Edmonton giving meetings this weekend and it will be so good to see him and be in the presence once again of one who embodies so much truth.

Speaking of the squeeze, that's actually all I've got time for this week, so -
Until next time,
Love,
Shanti

Power

 

As I write today's Post, John is giving an evening meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark and then from Thursday through Sunday he's giving a retreat in Elspeet in The Netherlands.  For more information on watching those live upcoming broadcasts please click here.

 

He gave an awesome teaching in Israel last Thursday on how coming into our Beings is the transformation of humanity - here are some snippets:

 

"Where the Calling is  awakened to,

any connectivity between people

that is based on the levels of the Being,

creates new space within the self

for what is greater than reality

to come in and eventually have form."

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"Power in this world,

power that's recognized in this world,

is based on what we perceive  in our selves as differences.

Differences that don't yet have meaning

on the level of our Beings

and the power that we perceive

within these differences

is an illusion.

It's the power based on the experience

that we have within our unintegrated selves.

Selves that don't yet belong to our Beings.

The power of the self kept away from the heart

and therefore kept away from the Being.

Kept away until there is  connectivity -

the connectivity between awareness and the Being

because of awareness residing in the heart

where all real connectivity begins.

And then the level of connectivity within

taking place between two or more,

where we all are actually together,

not because of any effort to be

or to move together in this world -

together because we all realize our Beings."

 

I highly recommend watching that entire meeting (evening, 17 September), which is available as a VOD, just click here to do so.

 

 

Until next time,

Love,

Shanti