Cologne, Germany Event - January 28, 2012 Evening.

Two questions: one about the vanishing aim of enlightenment, the other about the effects of being on a computer all day. John’s answer applies equally to both, and it all has to do with enjoying being, within.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
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Byron Bay, Australia Event - December 3, 2011 Afternoon.

A cancer diagnosis and the realization that she might soon die has awakened a new sense of purpose in this person. What is the secret to going home, within, before her physical death?

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
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London, UK Event - February 20, 2003.

“What you really are is more like breath than flesh and bone…” A rich and detailed teaching on the meaning of surrender and how it changes our manner, bringing transformation and the composure, within, that has no form.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
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Poleg Beach, Israel Event - September 20, 2015 Afternoon.

"The food for your soul while you're in a body is difficulty and pressure." John explains why this is so, why the soul is so difficult to see until after we die, and what our soul’s evolution is dependent on.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
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Edmonton, Canada Meeting - February 26, 2012 Evening.

The responsibilities that come with working in the world can feel stressful. Is there a way of moving more lightly in it all? John explains how it’s all dependent on what we belong to, within.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
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Boulder, USA Event - September 15, 2016 Afternoon.

Shame, fear, anger ... is it really possible to be okay in any circumstance, even when feeling attacked by others? There is transformative potential, and John explains.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
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Edmonton, Canada Winter Seminar - January 3, 2017 Evening.

Contrary to worldly conditioning, weakness isn't something to conceal or avoid; it's actually key to embodying a full spectrum of awareness. John describes the journey, and what it requires.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
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Poleg Beach, Israel Event - November 3, 2018 Evening.

For this mother, who is struggling in relation to her teenage daughter, what begins as a hard lesson to learn becomes a beautiful crossroads that will deeply change them both.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness.

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Bad Meinberg, Germany Event - December 2, 2016 Evening.

An epic conversation that reveals what we’re here for, how to help people suffering the effects of war, what can change the planet, and why it's up to us.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
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Auckland, New Zealand Event - March 15, 2004.

Entering a sexual relationship too soon has created suffering for this couple. Is it possible to start over, and build the kind of commitment that will survive the inevitable difficulties?

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands Event - September 11, 2011 Evening.

What's in the way of living a life of continuous awakening? John describes some of the ways we can make it elusive, revealing the importance of being all-in, now.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
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Yehiam, Israel Event - April 3, 2014 Evening.

"Fear not. Lay hold and love." Moving into the deep, within, requires laying hold of what you know has apprehended you. John explains how that can change everything.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
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Neve Shalom, Israel Event - February 1, 2013 Morning.

There's a far greater reality already in the body than our nervous system would have us believe. John explains how it can be transcended by awareness completely given to what it knows.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
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Edmonton Canada Winter Seminar - December 27, 2017 Afternoon.

Presence and humanness: these two words are opening new depths of vulnerability and aliveness, but how can it be sustained in life, and why was it covered up?

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
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Interactive Live Stream Online Meeting - July 12, 2020 Morning.

“You don’t need to fix your self …” John responds to the pain this person is feeling about her experience of lost innocence and love, and invites her into the goodness, deeper within.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
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Interactive Livestream - Summer Online Intensive - July 5, 2020 Morning.

Continuous environmental noise has this person feeling distressed and longing for silence. John shows her how to let go of the fight and enter the intimacy that lies beneath.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
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Auckland, New Zealand Event - March 14, 2004.

An unusual question and an even more unusual answer, revealing the wondrous complexity of a simple fact to the scientist of love.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
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Boulder, Colorado Event - September 15, 2016 Evening.

“This is like essence-of-baby, free to have your whole life.” John removes all the delays and false beliefs we place between our selves and the limitless nature of what we really are.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
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Edmonton, Canada Meeting - January 20, 2020 Evening.

Beyond being ready and willing to change, what does it take to go to ‘bedrock’ within and build a new foundation from which to live? 

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
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Cologne, Germany Event - January 28, 2013.

“Growth is painful.” John is referring to the inevitability of difficulty, pain or suffering as awareness evolves, and why its evolution is the greatest opportunity of this life.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
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Cologne, Germany Event - January 23, 2015 Evening.

Fully responding to new awakenings can bring disturbance, pressure, and unexpected sadness. John explains why this is so, the goodness of what’s happening, and how the past is healed.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
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Tel Aviv, Israel Event - February 12, 2010 Afternoon.

In this meeting, John shares with a married couple the key to real relationship, and how to be and move together in the richness that lies just beneath their personalities.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
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Edmonton, Canada Spring Seminar - April 15, 2017 Evening.

Is the embodiment of oneness meant to be practical in this world? John’s answer reveals how transmutation of the self happens, and what it takes to come into the full freedom of embodiment.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
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Byron Bay, Australia Event - December 5, 2000.

The idea that enlightenment is dependent on getting rid of all our patterns and conditioning proves not to be true, and John explains what really stands in the way. 

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
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Poleg Beach, Israel Event - October 28, 2017 Afternoon.

John reveals the way in which a tiny bit of warmth, openness and softness can bring about inner transformation, even in the midst of an experience of disintegration and vulnerability.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands Event - September 11, 2011 Afternoon.

In this simple, sweet teaching, John describes how to raise a child who will feel safe, seen, and who'll not need to perform for love.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands Event - March 6, 2010 Afternoon.

John explains what depression actually is and the real opportunity in the midst of it. Instead of focusing on the difficulty, there is something you can do with your attention that is subtle, simple, real and good.  

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
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Tel Aviv, Israel Event - February 14, 2010 Afternoon.

John describes to this person what was happening to her on deeper levels during a profound heart connection that came with a strange experience of facelessness.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
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Findhorn, Scotland Event - March 11, 2012 Morning.

Mental tension and sleeplessness ... is it possible to reach the cause when it's unconscious? John describes how tension is created and how to belong to the nurture that is its healing.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
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Munich, Germany Event - October 31, 2010 Afternoon.

John responds to a person longing to find home within, yet repeatedly caught in patterned ways. He explains how we can move on two different levels, forming a living bridge that heals the split, within.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
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Montreal, Canada Event - November 1, 2000 Afternoon.

"Look for more and you find less. Look for less and you’ll find more." A classic teaching that unwraps this paradox, revealing how it’s through being less and less that we awaken to the vastness of what we really are.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
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Cologne, Germany Event - September 19, 2011 Afternoon.

There’s a difference between the wish for information and understanding, and being receptive to living knowledge. Using an example from their conversation, John explains that difference.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands Event - September 22, 2012 Afternoon.

What is real knowledge as distinct from mastering a subject? This is a conversation about real mastery: where it begins, how it manifests, the importance of surrender, and the only way to go.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
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Cologne, Germany Event - September 19, 2011 Afternoon.

Could simply trusting in existence be the key to happiness and peace? Using an analogy from nature, John explains how easy it is draw a false conclusion about the source of awakening and realization.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
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Edmonton, Canada Summer Seminar - June 28, 2015 Afternoon.

"Love, and you’ll know its intelligence." A journey into the multilevelled body of love that lies beyond our comfort zone. John explains the role of the energy centres in allowing this love to have presence in the self.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
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Poleg Beach, Israel Event - April 6, 2019 Evening.

"Nothing that appears to be comes from what appears to be." This conversation travels deep into the unseen, revealing the shifts required to know the source of the light, within.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
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London, UK Event - September 8, 2008 Evening.

A dialogue that begins with a question about the format of John’s meetings evolves into a detailed teaching about the true nature of meaning and why searching for it won’t ultimately work.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
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Boulder, USA Event - September 15, 2016 Evening.

That nervous feeling of being on the brink of transformation is explored in this conversation, revealing the investments placed between our selves and our true home, within.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
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Boulder, USA Event - September 15, 2016 Afternoon.

"If it isn’t natural, immediate and beautifully easy, you’re making it too difficult." Discover what John is referring to in this conversation about whether intense fear can prevent us from living from the heart.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
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Edmonton, Canada Autumn Seminar - October 7, 2011 Evening.

An unusual opportunity to hear from a person who's discovering how to move in unseen realms, and learn from John the difference it makes in this world.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
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Munich, Germany Event - October 31, 2011 Evening.

The experience of emptiness and openness on the path of integration can feel like a no-man's land. John explains why that is, how to avoid a spiritual ego, and what to trust ... even if you feel like a fool.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 

More information about John de Ruiter - Knowing Reality at www.johnderuiter.com

Munich, Germany Event - October 31, 2011 Evening.

The experience of emptiness and openness on the path of integration can feel like a no-man's land. John explains why that is, how to avoid a spiritual ego, and what to trust ... even if you feel like a fool.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 

More information about John de Ruiter - Knowing Reality at www.johnderuiter.com

Munich, Germany Event - October 29, 2011 Afternoon.

The sense of having nothing to hold onto allows a moment of communion, an experience of being. John explains when holding has value and when it is merely conditioning, coming between us and what we really are.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
More information about John de Ruiter - Knowing Reality at www.johnderuiter.com

Munich, Germany Event - October 29, 2011 Afternoon.

The sense of having nothing to hold onto allows a moment of communion, an experience of being. John explains when holding has value and when it is merely conditioning, coming between us and what we really are.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
More information about John de Ruiter - Knowing Reality at www.johnderuiter.com

Spring Seminar - March 26, 2016, Edmonton, Canada

This conversation takes us on a journey beyond our seen reality into unseen realms within, and John describes the subtle veils that separate us from being the love that we most deeply are.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
More information about John de Ruiter - Knowing Reality at www.johnderuiter.com

Edmonton, Canada - Summer Seminar - July 1, 1999 Afternoon.

In this detailed and at times humorous dialogue, John reveals the magical bonds of being that occur when one spectrum of consciousness encounters another.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
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Gillingham, UK Event - June 7, 2014 Afternoon.

A powerful conversation expressing an absolute truth: John describes the evolution that takes place in the body as we be and do the goodness we know, regardless of experience.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
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Interactive Livestream - February 22, 2021 Morning.

Feeling weak, tired and caught in waves of uncertainty about what to do - does something need to change? A conversation showing the deep healing and clarity that comes from adding warmth to the discomfort of feeling clueless.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
More information about John de Ruiter - Knowing Reality at www.johnderuiter.com

Boulder, USA Event - September 15, 2016 Evening

"No matter what, it keeps seeping in." A conversation showing the endless, transformative ways our being naturally flows into our selves.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
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Cologne, Germany Event - January 24, 2013 Afternoon

Having been raised in a male environment, this person longs for more of the feminine qualities he's now coming to know. As he speaks with John, it becomes clear that a shift in his relating is all that's required.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
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Poleg Beach, Israel Event - April 30, 2016 Afternoon

This conversation zooms in on the micro-movements of awareness in form, and how it can choose between the addictive power of illusion or the healing power of oneness.

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
More information about John de Ruiter - Knowing Reality at www.johnderuiter.com

Byron Bay, Australia Event - March 11, 2001 Evening

John responds to a woman who has begun to fear her sexuality when it comes up around others, knowing that her way of controlling it isn't true. 

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
More information about John de Ruiter - Knowing Reality at www.johnderuiter.com

Munich, Germany Event - October 28, 2012 Evening

Others' anger in his relationships or at work always leaves this person feeling hurt and guilty. Why is this, and how can he live with his super-sensitivity?

Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness. 
 
More information about John de Ruiter - Knowing Reality at www.johnderuiter.com