John de Ruiter Podcast
John de Ruiter is a Canadian author and spiritual leader. He holds weekly meetings from his home base in Edmonton, Alberta, where he established the College of Integrated Philosophy in 2006. John has been offering seminars online and in Alberta since 2020, resulting in conversations with people all over the world. As an innovative voice for spiritual evolution, John de Ruiter teaches that life's meaning can be known and lived through "core-splitting honesty," a concept he discovered in his teens after a profound awakening to foundational levels of existence. Ever since, John’s life and teaching have been informed by that direct knowing. His desire to communicate these ideas led to two books, “The Intelligence of Love: Manifesting Your Being in This World” and “Unveiling Reality.” John’s teachings focus on a willingness to let go of your ego and desires: He draws a distinction between your self and your soul, as well as your mind and your being. When teaching a group, John prefers to interact with audience members one-on-one, rather than addressing a whole crowd. This method results in fascinating and intimate dialogues. Find more information about him at www.johnderuiter.com.

Title: Shanti' s Blog: Fifth Dialogue Session with John. 

Date: March 25, 2013 - Edmonton, Canada. 

Quote: Another session with John in which he answers questions regarding his teaching. Visit Shanti’s blog site to submit your own questions, at shantipodcast.blogspot.ca. 

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Title: Shanti's Blog - Fourth Dialogue Session with John. 

Date: August 28, 2012 - Edmonton, Canada. 

Quote: Another session with John in which he answers questions regarding his teaching. Visit Shanti’s blog site to submit your own questions, at shantipodcast.blogspot.ca. 

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Title: Realizing You Without Your Forms. 

Date: November 2, 2013 Afternoon - Munich, Germany Event. 

Quote: Open, within, to a seeing you’ve not had before. You’re able to see differently. You’re able to see on different levels. You’re able to see in a way that is new. 

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Title: Functioning as Wholeness. 

Date: November 1, 2013 Afternoon - Munich, Germany Event. 

Quote: For seamlessness to feel is for seamlessness to love. The seamlessness of your own being then has access into your heart and your heart has access into your self. 

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Title: Wholehearted Happiness.

Date: June 24, 2013 Afternoon - Edmonton, Canada Summer Seminar.

Quote: Nelson Mandela is who he is because he lived for what he knew mattered more. Anyone who is, in truth, really something, lives this way.

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Title: A Difficult Loveliness. 

Date: September 17, 2013 Evening - Venwoude, Lage Vuursche, The Netherlands Retreat. 

Quote: You know what level of connectivity is worth living by. It’s that kind of connectivity that forms real relationships. 

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Title: Not Functioning by Attraction and Aversion. 

Date: September 17, 2013 Afternoon - Venwoude, Lage Vuursche, The Netherlands Retreat. 

Quote: In your heart you don’t have likes and dislikes. In your heart you have only opening and softening. 

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Title: Delicately Aware of Your Pregnancy. 

Date: September 17, 2013 Afternoon - Venwoude, Lage Vuursche, The Netherlands Retreat. 

Quote: What the baby is going to need after it's born, as it becomes a child and as it grows up, is what it is giving to you, what it is being with you before it’s born. 

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Title: Seeing Without Familiarity. 

Date: September 14, 2013 Evening - Venwoude, Lage Vuursche, The Netherlands Retreat. 

Quote: Your sexuality doesn’t belong to your self. It belongs to all of your deeper bodies. It belongs to all of the deeper levels in you. 

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Title: Receiving Injury: Changing the Purpose of Your Self. 

Date: September 14, 2013 Afternoon - Venwoude, Lage Vuursche, The Netherlands Retreat. 

Quote: When you close your heart because of what someone else is doing to you, it doesn't matter what you see, you are wrong. It isn't true to what you know. It isn't true to your own being.  

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Title: Delightfully Easy to Change Your Heart. 

Date: June 14, 2013 Evening - Totnes, United Kingdom Event. 

Quote: Like being the tiny little bit that you know in your heart more than being what you feel and think in your self. Your self will heal; your feeling will soften, and your thinking will open.  

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Title: Real and Clear Parenting. 

Date: June 14, 2013 Afternoon - Totnes, United Kingdom Event.  

Quote: For you to really parent her is for you to be more of a self to her than a person, and more of a heart to her than a self, and more of a being to her than a heart. 

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Title: Dealing With Cancer in Perspective. 

Date: June 13, 2013 Evening - Bristol, United Kingdom Event. 

Quote: If you die of cancer with only openness and softness in your heart, you will live and die integrating your self. 

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Title: Oneness Isn’t Out of Reach. 

Date: June 13, 2013 Evening - Bristol, United Kingdom Event. 

Quote: Whatever it is that you know the truth of in your heart as awareness, surrender to it and you are one. Oneness isn’t at all difficult to be. It isn’t out of reach. 

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Title: Warmth in Your Heart Guides You. 

Date: June 12, 2013 Evening - Glastonbury, United Kingdom Event. 

Quote: When you take to heart anything of your own being, your heart is safe again despite what kind of self you have. For your heart to be safe, there isn’t anything in your self that needs to change first. 

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Title: Untold Riches in Relationship. 

Date: June 12, 2013 Evening - Glastonbury, United Kingdom Event. 

Quote: If the lovemaking has thinned out, see it as a call to really be together again, where what is most delicate in you meets what is most delicate in her. 

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Title: A Being-filled Heart Relationship.

Date: June 9, 2013 Evening - Freiburg, Germany Event.

Quote: A being-filled heart relationship costs you all of the self you have.

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Title: Tuning into Deeper Levels.

Date: June 9, 2013 Afternoon - Freiburg, Germany Event.

Quote: What you are relating to as awareness determines the level of awareness that you will be in. It doesn’t work by thinking and feeling. It works by relating.

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Title: Coming in Without Filters and Boundaries.

Date: June 9, 2013 Evening - Freiburg, Germany Event.

Quote: Meeting is your deepest and first relating. In your person you react to meeting. In your self you fear meeting. Deep in your heart you love meeting.

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Title: Delicate Satisfaction of Being.

Date:  June 8, 2013 Evening - Freiburg, Germany Event.

Quote: When you are experiencing lack, as awareness you’re not seeing the endless delicacies of being that are in you and that surround you. These delicacies of being are what make you rich, not your lack being answered.

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Title: Return to Being Magical.

Date: June 8, 2013 Evening - Freiburg, Germany Event.

Quote: As soon as you relax as awareness in the midst of anything, you turn into what is deeper. As soon as you relax as awareness, you begin to come into what you really are.

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Title: Flourish Regardless of Your Circumstances.

Date: June 8, 2013 Evening - Freiburg, Germany Event.

Quote: It isn’t the kind of profession that you have that makes you flourish; it’s what you are coming from, within, that makes you flourish. Then everything that you step into turns into your garden.

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Title: Warmly Receiving Growing Pains.

Date: June 8, 2013 Afternoon - Freiburg, Germany Event

Quote: When you open and soften in your heart despite your self and your body, your self opens and your body opens. Your self and your body are always slowly becoming as you are, as you are in your heart. What you are being in your heart is what your self turns into and what your body turns into.

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Title: A Listening Heart for Knowing.

Date: May 24, 2013 Evening - Neve Shalom, Israel Retreat.

Quote: When you give your energy to what you know, it comes back to you and you have something that you know to build with. When you build a self only based on what you know the truth of, your self becomes like an energy reserve. Your self becomes resilient and it’s able to handle very much.

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Title: Belong to the More that You Already Know.

Date: May 24, 2013 Afternoon - Neve Shalom, Israel Retreat.

Quote: You don’t come into the more without responding to what you already know. You don’t come into the more without belonging to knowing. Surrender to what you know and you’ll know more.

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Title: An Invitation to Look Into Meaning.

Date: May 24, 2013 Afternoon - Neve Shalom, Israel Retreat.

Quote: When you feel empty, that’s your invitation to not look into what you are accustomed to; it’s your invitation to not look into your practice of life; it’s your invitation to look into meaning.

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Title: In Your Heart You Don't Fear Dying.

Date: May 24, 2013 Afternoon - Neve Shalom, Israel Retreat.

Quote: When you hold memories as lightly as you can, it’s no longer for your self; it’s for your heart. When you hold memories strongly, when you hold them and keep them strongly to your self, trying to keep them in your experience, you are desensitized to what is deeper. You are desensitized to your real connectivity within.

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Title: One Touch of Meeting.

Date: May 24, 2013 Morning - Neve Shalom, Israel Retreat.

Quote: The softer your heart is the less that your past is forming your present and your future. When there is openness and softness of heart, what forms the present and the future is not your past but the reality of your own being.

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Title: Having Goodness Vision.

Date: May 24, 2013 Morning - Neve Shalom, Israel Retreat.

Quote: Aside from what appeals or doesn’t appeal to your self, discern the truth of the environment that you are to be in, based on what you know, not based on anything in your self.

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Title: Being a Goodness Parent to Your Self. 

Date: May 23, 2013 Afternoon - Neve Shalom, Israel Retreat. 

Quote: Your clarity comes from what you know in your heart. When you’re clear, your self comes along and it will grow. It will develop out of your clarity. 

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Title: You Need to Love. 

Date: May 23, 2013 Morning - Neve Shalom, Israel Retreat. 

Quote: When you love because you're in your heart, without any focus in your self, you are deepening into what is next. As you deepen into what is next, without any kind of understanding, what is next opens. It opens into your heart and it moves. It moves as you love. 

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Title: Finding Your Depth Within.

Date: May 23, 2013 Morning - Neve Shalom, Israel Retreat.

Quote: You must remain in your heart. Don’t leave it for anything. It is only from within your heart that real balancing occurs, the balancing of all things in you.

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Title: Moving into Your Heart. 

Date: May 20, 2013 Afternoon - Hamburg, Germany Event. 

Quote: Believe what you know, instead of believing what you feel in your self. What you feel in your self is conditioned. What you know in your heart is true.  

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Title: Oneness Needs No Relationship. 

Date: May 19, 2013 Afternoon - Hamburg, Germany Event. 

Quote: A real relationship is made of two independently filled hearts, together, giving everything and needing nothing. 

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Title: Realize the Wonderfulness in Your Life. 

Date: May 18, 2013 Evening - Hamburg, Germany Event. 

Quote: It matters for you to have wonderfulness in your life and it matters much less for you to have a wonderful life. Wonderfulness in your life doesn’t have the look of a wonderful life. It has the look of goodness that you know in your heart. 

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Title: Loving What You Are Knowing. 

Date: May 18, 2013 Afternoon - Hamburg, Germany Event. 

Quote: Your own knowing of the deep is your connection. Let that knowing have presence. Let that knowing thicken and have power in your heart. 

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Title: The Wrongdoing of Others. 

Date: May 17, 2013 Evening - Hamburg, Germany Event. 

Quote: It matters more what your heart is in, than what your self is in. All of the wrongdoing, suffering, and exploitation in this world isn’t addressed when all the wrongdoing, the suffering, and exploitation stops. It is addressed when everyone returns home, when everyone is home within. 

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Title: Need Only the Help that You Know is Available. 

Date: April 29, 2013 Afternoon - Venwoude, Lage Vuursche, The Netherlands Retreat. 

Quote: When you are dishonest to your clarity, you will manifest reasonings against your own clarity. When you are honest to your clarity, you have no reasons against your clarity. 

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Title: Jealousy is Self Up-Side Down. 

Date: April 30, 2013 Evening - Venwoude, Lage Vuursche, The Netherlands Retreat. 

Quote: Where there’s jealousy, there isn’t regard for meaning anymore, meaning for its own sake.  

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Title: Moving as Knowing Makes Your Beingness. 

Date: April 28, 2013 Afternoon - Venwoude, Lage Vuursche, The Netherlands Retreat. 

Quote: With any awakening to the truth of your own being, you know, within, that your own being is lovelier than what your self is, making clear that it is all of your self that belongs to your being, and that all of your being belongs in all of yourself, and that the two need not be separate. 

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Title: Inner Well-Being Knows No Emptiness. 

Date: April 26, 2013 Afternoon - Venwoude, Lage Vuursche, The Netherlands Retreat. 

Quote: If relationship is like a nest, then marriage is like giving the nest a bigger tree. 

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Title: A Cutting Edge of Depth Applied to Your Personality. 

Date: April 26, 2013 Afternoon - Venwoude, Lage Vuursche, The Netherlands Retreat. 

Quote: Your heart needs to be visible within your personality, regardless of the response that comes back to you. Your heart remains on the surface regardless of how you are treated because you know that your heart belongs everywhere.     

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Title: Match Your Own Being. 

Date: April 25, 2013 Evening - Venwoude, Lage Vuursche, The Netherlands Retreat. 

Quote: When you are being really known, you are ready to die and able to live, because you are connected to what is first. 

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Title: Dearness Matters More Than Rightness. 

Date: April 24, 2013 Afternoon - Venwoude, Lage Vuursche, The Netherlands Retreat. 

Quote: The clarity that you have about what you’re stepping into comes from what you are coming from. 

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Title: The Pure Doesn’t Need Defending. 

Date: April 24, 2013 Evening - Venwoude, Lage Vuursche, The Netherlands Retreat. 

Quote: Anything that happens to the pure brings out the pure. The pure doesn’t need defending. Forms may require defending, but only the pure is able to, in purity, defend.    

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Title: A Being-Filled Heart Answering Difficulty. 

Date: April 24, 2013 Afternoon - Venwoude, Lage Vuursche, The Netherlands Retreat. 

Quote: Taking your being to heart while your self is in pain and under pressure brings a depth of being into your heart. The greater the pain your self is in while you’re taking your being to heart, the greater your realization of your being. 

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Title: Shock Uncovering the Real You. 

Date: April 24, 2013 Afternoon - Venwoude, Lage Vuursche, The Netherlands Retreat. 

Quote: Shock puts you into what you really are without any reference to your past and without reference to memory. 

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Title: Trauma Engaging the Deep. 

Date: March 11, 2013 Evening - Byron Bay, Australia Seminar.

Quote: Trauma doesn’t rob you, as awareness, of direct knowledge. Trauma engages direct knowledge. 

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Title: Deathbed Honesty. 

Date: March 11, 2013 Evening - Byron Bay, Australia Seminar.

Quote: You can have deathbed honesty because of being in a crisis, because of being on your own deathbed, or simply at any time because of being that honest to what you know. 

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Title: One Way Flow.

Date: March 11, 2013 Afternoon - Byron Bay, Australia Seminar.

Quote: The movement and direction of your power, as awareness, is determined by belief. In your experience, that's determined by what you take to heart. Whatever you take to heart, you empower. 

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Title: Releasing Obsessive Compulsive Patterns.

Date: March 11, 2013 Afternoon - Byron Bay, Australia Seminar.

Quote: As your self opens, the energy of being compulsive and obsessive opens, and you realize deeper levels in your self that have more importance than the levels that you are used to in your self, the levels that take you in your experience. 

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Title: Give to the Little.

Date: March 10, 2013 Afternoon - Byron Bay, Australia Seminar.

Quote: For your heart to be answered, you need to turn completely to what you know in your heart. 

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Title: Goldenness Knowing.

Date: March 9, 2013 Afternoon - Byron Bay, Australia Seminar.

Quote: Knowing isn’t a feeling. Knowing is how you move first as awareness and it is how you move as awareness within feeling.

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Title: Meeting through the Deeper Levels.

Date: March 8, 2013 Evening - Byron Bay, Australia Seminar.

Quote: Make what you are knowing physical to him. In that way you make your being physical. You make your relationship a portal. 

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Title: You Belong to What Answers You.

Date: March 8, 2013 Evening - Byron Bay, Australia Seminar.

Quote: Take to heart only what reaches your core.

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Title: Finding Meaning in Everything.

Date: March 8, 2013 afternoon - Byron Bay, Australia Seminar.

Quote: You don't need more of what you are. What you are is enough. You can be that in the experience of something that's meaningful and you can be that in the absence of experiencing what is meaningful. As awareness, you can be meaning that has need of nothing.

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Title: No Observer, No Watcher, No Witness. 

Date: November 30, 2012 Morning - Neve Shalom, Israel Retreat.  

Quote: In this you don’t stop to observe and think about what you’re entering or where it is you enter. You just simply enter and enter and enter.  

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Title: The Return to Innocence. 

Date: February 24, 2013 Evening - Edmonton, Canada. 

Quote: The return of innocence isn’t the end of pain. Pain reveals depths of real knowledge. In that way pain heals you. It connects you with what you know. 

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Title: Dropped into Your Heart. 

Date: January 24, 2013 Afternoon - Cologne, Germany Seminar. 

Quote: When you drop into your heart without using anything of your self, without relating to your self, what you are in your heart is openness and softness. 

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Title: Love Without Need. 

Date: January 31, 2013 Afternoon - Neve Shalom, Israel Retreat. 

Quote: You don’t need to have love. You need only to be what you know love is, whether you’re alone or with someone. 

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Title: No Need for Meditation.

Date: November 29, 2012 Morning - Neve Shalom, Israel Retreat.

Quote: A tool or a technique does help in that it does confirm to you that you’re knowing something, within, that’s deeper. As soon as you’re connected with that knowing, you need to release the tool. The tool introduces you to what you know and then you need to release the tool. In that way you’re not needing your self to be in what you’re knowing.

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Title: Sweetly Parenting Your Self. 

Date: December 29, 2012 Evening - Edmonton, Canada Winter Seminar. 

Quote: When you are less than what your self is, that makes you more than the sum of all of your experiences, enabling you to guide your self into goodness. 

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