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

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.    More information about John de Ruiter - Knowing Reality at <a href="http://www.johnderuiter.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.johnderuiter.com</a>

JdR Podcast 530 - A Gauntlet of Impossibility: Embodying Your Being in this World

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

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.    More information about John de Ruiter - Knowing Reality at <a href="http://www.johnderuiter.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.johnderuiter.com</a>

JdR Podcast 529 - Unmasking the Idea of Enlightenment

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

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.    More information about John de Ruiter - Knowing Reality at <a href="http://www.johnderuiter.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.johnderuiter.com</a>

JdR Podcast 528 - The Opening of Your Subconscious: An Internal Climate Change

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

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.    More information about John de Ruiter - Knowing Reality at <a href="http://www.johnderuiter.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.johnderuiter.com</a>

JdR Podcast 527 - The Key to Heartful, Clear Parenting

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

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.    More information about John de Ruiter - Knowing Reality at <a href="http://www.johnderuiter.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.johnderuiter.com</a>

JdR Podcast 526 - The Deeper Knowledge Beneath Depression

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

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.    More information about John de Ruiter - Knowing Reality at <a href="http://www.johnderuiter.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.johnderuiter.com</a>

JdR Podcast 525 - Awakening to Your Real Face, Within

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

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.    More information about John de Ruiter - Knowing Reality at <a href="http://www.johnderuiter.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.johnderuiter.com</a>

JdR Podcast 524 - Uncovering the Source of Mental Tension

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

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.    More information about John de Ruiter - Knowing Reality at <a href="http://www.johnderuiter.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.johnderuiter.com</a>

JdR Podcast 523 - Honest Suffering: Healing the Split Between Your Self and Your Being

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

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.    More information about John de Ruiter - Knowing Reality at <a href="http://www.johnderuiter.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.johnderuiter.com</a>

JdR Podcast 522 - Awakening to the Vastness of You

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

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.    More information about John de Ruiter - Knowing Reality at <a href="http://www.johnderuiter.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.johnderuiter.com</a>

JdR Podcast 521 - The Beingness of Deeper Knowledge

"Without your entrance to greater reality in this life, greater reality has no entrance to this life.  The meaning of all of this life [of yours] isn't as it appears.  The meaning of this life is for greater reality to manifest through all the forms of this life."  - John de Ruiter.  New podcast Episodes are released weekly on iTunes.  Visit www.johnderuiter.com for audio and video releases of John's meetings and to register for live seminars.

"Without your entrance to greater reality in this life, greater reality has no entrance to this life. The meaning of all of this life [of yours] isn't as it appears. The meaning of this life is for greater reality to manifest through all the forms of this life." - John de Ruiter. New podcast Episodes are released weekly on iTunes. Visit <a href="http://www.johnderuiter.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.johnderuiter.com</a> for audio and video releases of John's meetings and to register for live seminars.

John de Ruiter Podcast

Title: Leaning Back and Leaning Forward.    Location: March 28, 2015 Afternoon, Venwoude in Lage Vuursche, The Netherlands Retreat.    Quote: Leaning back into what you know reorients you as awareness to the truth you know. Leaning forward manifests the ways of your being.     Info: People are responding worldwide to John and his message of knowing and meaning. Aside from regular meetings in Edmonton, Canada, John holds seminars and retreats in Australia, Israel, and several countries around Europe. These international events include lunches and informal meetings with John and those attending the meetings. People also connect via webcast as part of a wider international community.    Canadian Philosopher John de Ruiter is an innovative voice for spiritual evolution, teaching that life's meaning can be known and lived through "core-splitting honesty." In his teens, John awakened to foundational levels of existence. Ever since, his life and teaching have been informed by that direct knowing, a true inspiration that he encourages in others.    John's meetings include silence, connection by eye-contact, and dialogue. They are an opportunity to come to rest while actively realizing deeper levels of being human, knowing what we really are, and allowing that greater reality to change our lives.    More information about John de Ruiter - Knowing Reality at www.johnderuiter.com

Title: Leaning Back and Leaning Forward.  Location: March 28, 2015 Afternoon, Venwoude in Lage Vuursche, The Netherlands Retreat.  Quote: Leaning back into what you know reorients you as awareness to the truth you know. Leaning forward manifests the ways of your being.   Info: People are responding worldwide to John and his message of knowing and meaning. Aside from regular meetings in Edmonton, Canada, John holds seminars and retreats in Australia, Israel, and several countries around Europe. These international events include lunches and informal meetings with John and those attending the meetings. People also connect via webcast as part of a wider international community.  Canadian Philosopher John de Ruiter is an innovative voice for spiritual evolution, teaching that life's meaning can be known and lived through "core-splitting honesty." In his teens, John awakened to foundational levels of existence. Ever since, his life and teaching have been informed by that direct knowing, a true inspiration that he encourages in others.  John's meetings include silence, connection by eye-contact, and dialogue. They are an opportunity to come to rest while actively realizing deeper levels of being human, knowing what we really are, and allowing that greater reality to change our lives.  More information about John de Ruiter - Knowing Reality at <a href="http://johnderuiter.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.johnderuiter.com</a>

JdR Podcast 181 - Leaning Back and Leaning Forward

Title: Seeing, Knowing, Loving AnotherDate: January 31, 2011 Evening - Pardes Hana, IsraelQuote: You need no reward in being what love is, in moving it and in giving it. When you are what love is, you’re not needing its return. Love doesn’t need to be answered. It just quietly and freely gives.www.johnderuiter.com

Title: Seeing, Knowing, Loving AnotherDate: January 31, 2011 Evening - Pardes Hana, IsraelQuote: You need no reward in being what love is, in moving it and in giving it. When you are what love is, you’re not needing its return. Love doesn’t need to be answered. It just quietly and freely gives.<a href="http://www.johnderuiter.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.johnderuiter.com</a>

JdR Podcast 056 - Seeing, Knowing, Loving Another - January 31, 2011 Evening - Pardes Hana, Israel

Title: Putting Your Self Into Perspective Date: December 18, 2011 Afternoon - Edmonton, Canada Quote: Your self is of value and it is usable, but not on old terms anymore, not on the terms of your conditioning anymore. That means that as awareness, from within knowing, with all of your heart, you will be integrating your self and all of its conditioning. Your self, by you, is going to become all different.  www.johnderuiter.com

Title: Putting Your Self Into Perspective Date: December 18, 2011 Afternoon - Edmonton, Canada Quote: Your self is of value and it is usable, but not on old terms anymore, not on the terms of your conditioning anymore. That means that as awareness, from within knowing, with all of your heart, you will be integrating your self and all of its conditioning. Your self, by you, is going to become all different. <a href="http://www.johnderuiter.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.johnderuiter.com</a>

JdR Podcast 054 - Putting Your Self Into Perspective - December 18, 2011 Afternoon - Edmonton, Canada

Title: If You Die in Your Fear You Have Wasted Your Life. Date: September 9, 2012 Afternoon - Edmonton, Canada. Quote: If your self is as large as a house, the door to knowing within need only be the size of a pinhole, with all of you as awareness entering it. www.johnderuiter.com

Title: If You Die in Your Fear You Have Wasted Your Life. Date: September 9, 2012 Afternoon - Edmonton, Canada. Quote: If your self is as large as a house, the door to knowing within need only be the size of a pinhole, with all of you as awareness entering it. <a href="http://www.johnderuiter.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.johnderuiter.com</a>

JdR Podcast 073 - If You Die in Your Fear You Have Wasted Your Life - September 9, 2012 Afternoon - Edmonton, Canada

Byron Bay, Australia Event - March 2, 2014 Afternoon   Many of us love responding to and being in our hearts; and yet we find it challenging to sustain a love filled heart in in your daily life, in the midst of circumstances, in the midst of feelings and emotions in our selves. In this dialogue, John speaks of and explains how to sweep the self out of the heart, develop a deeper and a higher self, and live in love and empathy instead of fear.   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 2, 2014 Afternoon   Many of us love responding to and being in our hearts; and yet we find it challenging to sustain a love filled heart in in your daily life, in the midst of circumstances, in the midst of feelings and emotions in our selves. In this dialogue, John speaks of and explains how to sweep the self out of the heart, develop a deeper and a higher self, and live in love and empathy instead of fear.   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 <a href="http://www.johnderuiter.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.johnderuiter.com</a>

JdR Podcast 270 - Opening Your Heart: Love Instead of Fear

Title: Opening and Softening in the Midst of Anger.    Location: January 22, 2015 Afternoon - Cologne, Germany Event.    Quote: Your self is yours to integrate. To integrate your self you need to be, in the midst of your experience, a little bit like your own being.    Info: People are responding worldwide to John and his message of knowing and meaning. Aside from regular meetings in Edmonton, Canada, John holds seminars and retreats in Australia, Israel, and several countries around Europe. These international events include lunches and informal meetings with John and those attending the meetings. People also connect via webcast as part of a wider international community.    Canadian Philosopher John de Ruiter is an innovative voice for spiritual evolution, teaching that life's meaning can be known and lived through "core-splitting honesty." In his teens, John awakened to foundational levels of existence. Ever since, his life and teaching have been informed by that direct knowing, a true inspiration that he encourages in others.    John's meetings include silence, connection by eye-contact, and dialogue. They are an opportunity to come to rest while actively realizing deeper levels of being human, knowing what we really are, and allowing that greater reality to change our lives.      More information about John de Ruiter - Knowing Reality at www.johnderuiter.com

Title: Opening and Softening in the Midst of Anger.  Location: January 22, 2015 Afternoon - Cologne, Germany Event.  Quote: Your self is yours to integrate. To integrate your self you need to be, in the midst of your experience, a little bit like your own being.  Info: People are responding worldwide to John and his message of knowing and meaning. Aside from regular meetings in Edmonton, Canada, John holds seminars and retreats in Australia, Israel, and several countries around Europe. These international events include lunches and informal meetings with John and those attending the meetings. People also connect via webcast as part of a wider international community.  Canadian Philosopher John de Ruiter is an innovative voice for spiritual evolution, teaching that life's meaning can be known and lived through "core-splitting honesty." In his teens, John awakened to foundational levels of existence. Ever since, his life and teaching have been informed by that direct knowing, a true inspiration that he encourages in others.  John's meetings include silence, connection by eye-contact, and dialogue. They are an opportunity to come to rest while actively realizing deeper levels of being human, knowing what we really are, and allowing that greater reality to change our lives.  More information about John de Ruiter - Knowing Reality at <a href="http://johnderuiter.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.johnderuiter.com</a>

JdR Podcast 176 - Opening and Softening in the Midst of Anger - January 22, 2015 Afternoon - Cologne, Germany Event

Tiruvannamalai, India Event - January 27, 2016 Morning The sweet experience of holding his little daughter’s hand has begun to open this man’s heart to his being, its deeper levels and an altogether different reality. John describes the opportunity he has to open further, and the power of proximity with another to move in the stream together. 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

Tiruvannamalai, India Event - January 27, 2016 Morning The sweet experience of holding his little daughter’s hand has begun to open this man’s heart to his being, its deeper levels and an altogether different reality. John describes the opportunity he has to open further, and the power of proximity with another to move in the stream together. 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 <a href="http://www.johnderuiter.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.johnderuiter.com</a>

JdR Podcast 342 - Streaming as Love: Opening to a New Reality

Title: The Touch of AwakeningDate: November 1, 2011 Evening - Tel Aviv, IsraelQuote: Listen to what it is that you are actually knowing when you are in nature. Notice, within, what you are not needing to use in being touched in your heart and satisfied in your heart with what is occurring in nature. It has to do with a beingness. It doesn’t have anything to do with your self. You don’t need your self for the touch of nature. You don’t need your self for the touch of realization and of awakening.www.johnderuiter.com

Title: The Touch of AwakeningDate: November 1, 2011 Evening - Tel Aviv, IsraelQuote: Listen to what it is that you are actually knowing when you are in nature. Notice, within, what you are not needing to use in being touched in your heart and satisfied in your heart with what is occurring in nature. It has to do with a beingness. It doesn’t have anything to do with your self. You don’t need your self for the touch of nature. You don’t need your self for the touch of realization and of awakening.<a href="http://www.johnderuiter.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.johnderuiter.com</a>

JdR Podcast 049 - The Touch of Awakening - November 1, 2011 Evening - Tel Aviv, Israel

Byron Bay, Australia Event - November 22, 2010 Evening How did I get to feel so trapped in my self when I know there’s more to me? John describes the way to our deeper self, past practised methods of coping and ideas of self-esteem - all the way in to the real, unshakable you. 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 - November 22, 2010 Evening How did I get to feel so trapped in my self when I know there’s more to me? John describes the way to our deeper self, past practised methods of coping and ideas of self-esteem - all the way in to the real, unshakable you. 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 <a href="http://www.johnderuiter.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.johnderuiter.com</a>

JdR Podcast 338 - Beyond Self Esteem: Discovering the Unshakable You

Title: Knowing: the Universe of Your Own ExperienceDate: April 10, 2011 Evening - Venwoude, Laage Vursche, The Netherlands SeminarQuote: Your heart reveals what the who has done with what you are.www.johnderuiter.com 

Title: Knowing: the Universe of Your Own ExperienceDate: April 10, 2011 Evening - Venwoude, Laage Vursche, The Netherlands SeminarQuote: Your heart reveals what the who has done with what you are.<a href="http://www.johnderuiter.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.johnderuiter.com</a>

JdR Podcast 028 - Knowing: the Universe of Your Own Experience - April 10, 2011 Evening - Venwoude, Laage Vursche, The Netherlands Seminar

Title: The Kind of Man That You Quietly Within Want To BeDate: November 17, 2011 EveningQuote: “Your self is yours to raise, not yours to give everything to. Treat your own self as a loved child that you are raising. That makes you bigger and more than your own self.”www.johnderuiter.com

Title: The Kind of Man That You Quietly Within Want To BeDate: November 17, 2011 EveningQuote: “Your self is yours to raise, not yours to give everything to. Treat your own self as a loved child that you are raising. That makes you bigger and more than your own self.”<a href="http://www.johnderuiter.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.johnderuiter.com</a>

JdR Podcast 048 - The Kind of Man That You Quietly Within Want To Be - November 17, 2011 Evening - Edmonton, Camada

Title: Your Greatest Strength Is In Your Weakest WeaknessDate: March 12, 2011 Afternoon - Bristol, England Seminarhttp://www.johnderuiter.com 

Title: Your Greatest Strength Is In Your Weakest WeaknessDate: March 12, 2011 Afternoon - Bristol, England Seminar<a href="http://www.johnderuiter.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.johnderuiter.com</a>

JdR Podcast 024 - Your Greatest Strength Is Within Your Weakest Weakness - March 12, 2011 Afternoon - Bristol, England Seminar

Hamburg, Germany Retreat - May 18, 2013 Afternoon.    How can a person with strong mental conditioning connect to their heart? Through the example of loving someone, John shows the questioner how to be in his heart and, despite shyness and embarrassment, let it come into his face, filling his body and changing his thinking.    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

Hamburg, Germany Retreat - May 18, 2013 Afternoon.    How can a person with strong mental conditioning connect to their heart? Through the example of loving someone, John shows the questioner how to be in his heart and, despite shyness and embarrassment, let it come into his face, filling his body and changing his thinking.    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 <a href="http://www.johnderuiter.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.johnderuiter.com</a>

JdR Podcast 298 - Return to Your Heart, Return to Your Innocence

Poleg Beach, Netanya, Israel Event - May 24, 2018 Afternoon  In this gentle, profound dialogue, a woman who was sexually abused by her father asks how she can be with the ongoing sense of uncleanness she feels in her body. John reveals to her deeper levels unaffected by the trauma, opening the possibility of true healing and a return to a heart-to-heart connection with her father. 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

Poleg Beach, Netanya, Israel Event - May 24, 2018 Afternoon In this gentle, profound dialogue, a woman who was sexually abused by her father asks how she can be with the ongoing sense of uncleanness she feels in her body. John reveals to her deeper levels unaffected by the trauma, opening the possibility of true healing and a return to a heart-to-heart connection with her father. 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 <a href="http://www.johnderuiter.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.johnderuiter.com</a>

JdR Podcast 295 - Finding Compassion and Love After Sexual Abuse

Netanya, Israel Retreat - September 17, 2015 Eve   What is true individuality? How are we different and what is it that makes us the same? How would we change, as humanity, if we connect as beings rather than selves? John explains the shift of connectivity that happens when we awaken to the calling. In allowing our awakening to manifest through our heart, self and person, we manifest the beginning of oneness, realized in 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.    More information about John de Ruiter - Knowing Reality at www.johnderuiter.com

Netanya, Israel Retreat - September 17, 2015 Eve   What is true individuality? How are we different and what is it that makes us the same? How would we change, as humanity, if we connect as beings rather than selves? John explains the shift of connectivity that happens when we awaken to the calling. In allowing our awakening to manifest through our heart, self and person, we manifest the beginning of oneness, realized in 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.    More information about John de Ruiter - Knowing Reality at <a href="http://www.johnderuiter.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.johnderuiter.com</a>

JdR Podcast 263 - The Calling and The Transformation of Humanity

Munich, Germany Retreat - October 30, 2011 Evening.    [Add Podcast summary from masterlist here]   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 Retreat - October 30, 2011 Evening.    [Add Podcast summary from masterlist here]   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 <a href="http://www.johnderuiter.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.johnderuiter.com</a>

JdR Podcast 296 - Stillness in a Storm: Finding True Stability Within

Hamburg, Germany Retreat - June 9, 2017 Afternoon.    Let not your heart nor your self be a port for negativity. This questioner has experienced the deeper ground she really belongs to, but can be overtaken by negativity. John shows her how to care for what she knows in her heart, even under pressure.   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

Hamburg, Germany Retreat - June 9, 2017 Afternoon.    Let not your heart nor your self be a port for negativity. This questioner has experienced the deeper ground she really belongs to, but can be overtaken by negativity. John shows her how to care for what she knows in her heart, even under pressure.   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 <a href="http://www.johnderuiter.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.johnderuiter.com</a>

JdR Podcast 299 - True Belonging: Living From the Deeper Levels of You

Title: A Most Delicate Willingness. Location: November 14, 2014 Afternoon - Hamburg, Germany Retreat. Quote: The real use of your power is your laying that power down to what you know in your heart. Your real power is in the delicateness of your 'yes'.    Info: People are responding worldwide to John and his message of knowing and meaning. Aside from regular meetings in Edmonton, Canada, John holds seminars and retreats in Australia, Israel, and several countries around Europe. These international events include lunches and informal meetings with John and those attending the meetings. People also connect via webcast as part of a wider international community.   Canadian Philosopher John de Ruiter is an innovative voice for spiritual evolution, teaching that life's meaning can be known and lived through "core-splitting honesty." In his teens, John awakened to foundational levels of existence. Ever since, his life and teaching have been informed by that direct knowing, a true inspiration that he encourages in others.   John's meetings include silence, connection by eye-contact, and dialogue. They are an opportunity to come to rest while actively realizing deeper levels of being human, knowing what we really are, and allowing that greater reality to change our lives. More information about John de Ruiter - Knowing Reality at www.johnderuiter.com

Title: A Most Delicate Willingness. Location: November 14, 2014 Afternoon - Hamburg, Germany Retreat. Quote: The real use of your power is your laying that power down to what you know in your heart. Your real power is in the delicateness of your 'yes'.  Info: People are responding worldwide to John and his message of knowing and meaning. Aside from regular meetings in Edmonton, Canada, John holds seminars and retreats in Australia, Israel, and several countries around Europe. These international events include lunches and informal meetings with John and those attending the meetings. People also connect via webcast as part of a wider international community. Canadian Philosopher John de Ruiter is an innovative voice for spiritual evolution, teaching that life's meaning can be known and lived through "core-splitting honesty." In his teens, John awakened to foundational levels of existence. Ever since, his life and teaching have been informed by that direct knowing, a true inspiration that he encourages in others. John's meetings include silence, connection by eye-contact, and dialogue. They are an opportunity to come to rest while actively realizing deeper levels of being human, knowing what we really are, and allowing that greater reality to change our lives. More information about John de Ruiter - Knowing Reality at <a href="http://www.johnderuiter.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.johnderuiter.com</a>

JdR Podcast 173 -  A Most Delicate Willingness - November 14, 2014 Afternoon - Hamburg, Germany Retreat

Tiruvannamalai, India Retreat - February 2, Morning 2017 Being awakened is like being pregnant. When you are being your awakening, you develop a body of being that is like a baby you are able to hold and care for. When the baby matters more to you than all else, there is deep peace. In these dialogues, John explains how we can live that deep peace in life, a life no longer formed by good or bad things happening to us but by what we are being in it. 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

Tiruvannamalai, India Retreat - February 2, Morning 2017 Being awakened is like being pregnant. When you are being your awakening, you develop a body of being that is like a baby you are able to hold and care for. When the baby matters more to you than all else, there is deep peace. In these dialogues, John explains how we can live that deep peace in life, a life no longer formed by good or bad things happening to us but by what we are being in it. 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 <a href="http://www.johnderuiter.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.johnderuiter.com</a>

JdR Podcast 250 - After Spiritual Awakening: Finding Deep Peace

Title: Rested in Your Heart Despite an Agitated Nervous SystemDate: April 6, 2011 Evening - Amsterdam, The NetherlandsQuote: You simply cannot trust or refer to your experience of your self to tell you what you are, to tell you the truth within.www.johnderuiter.com 

Title: Rested in Your Heart Despite an Agitated Nervous SystemDate: April 6, 2011 Evening - Amsterdam, The NetherlandsQuote: You simply cannot trust or refer to your experience of your self to tell you what you are, to tell you the truth within.<a href="http://www.johnderuiter.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.johnderuiter.com</a>

JdR Podcast 025 - Rested in Your Heart Despite an Agitated Nervous System - April 6, 2011 Evening - Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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