"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.
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JdR Podcast 624 - The Awakening of Our Endless Consciousness
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19:37Edmonton, Canada Summer Seminar - June 30, 2000. A question about enlightenment develops into an astonishing revelation of what our potential as consciousness really is, and it all begins with being given to the sweetest touch of tenderness. Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meanin…
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JdR Podcast 623 - The Fulfilling Nature of "Nothingness"
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17:03Chiemsee, Germany Event - April 19, 2015 Afternoon. Is "nothingness" the void that it seems? From a deeper perspective, the stillness is full of movement, the emptiness full of qualities of our being that can manifest in the midst of the self we’ve become. Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, w…
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JdR Podcast 622 - Manifesting You: A Wondrous Responsibility
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20:24Neve Shalom, Israel Event - November 30, 2012 Afternoon. We have enormous power, and what we do with it defines us in a way that's readable even after death. John emphasizes the role of clarity in becoming all we're able to be in this life. Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning…
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JdR Podcast 621 - The Soul: The Most Important of All Your Forms
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12:19Moen, Denmark Event - June 5, 2016 Afternoon. The soul is shrouded in mystery, yet it can evolve massively while we are in this life. How does that happen, and what is the dark night of the soul? 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. For more info…
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JdR Podcast 620 - The Invitation in an Awakening Experience
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28:00Byron Bay, Australia Event - April 3, 2011 Afternoon. This conversation reveals the real value in a life-changing experience of awakening. With it came an invitation, and John explains how to live the oneness contained in its message. Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of li…
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JdR Podcast 619 - Guided By a Golden Thread of Honesty, Within
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9:51Moen, Denmark Event - June 5, 2016 Evening. John chooses a surfing metaphor to explain how strong feelings of love can become a distraction from the golden thread of connectivity we really are, just a little deeper. 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 awar…
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JdR Podcast 618 - The Value of True Mind Management
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16:45Byron Bay, Australia Event - March 10, 2001. Does your mind seem to have a life of its own? Discover how gentle stewardship is able to turn a mind that can sometimes seem like an unruly puppy into an amazing friend. 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 awar…
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JdR Podcast 617 - Quietly Happy Within, Come What May
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11:26Boulder, USA Event - May 10, 2017 Afternoon. Opening the heart is key to our return to innocence, but its significance doesn’t mean it's complicated. In fact, this happens countless times a day without us realizing 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 a…
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Rishikesh, India Event - February 24, 2019 Afternoon. Step by step, John shines a gentle light on the reason for a pervasive sense of nervousness, within. It all comes from our mistaken identity. 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. For more info…
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JdR Podcast 615 - Seeing Without Judgment: Knowing Your Bond with Everyone
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21:00Tiruvannamalai, India Event - January 30, 2018 Morning. This conversation begins with the longing to find connection with a deceased parent, and reveals what stands in the way of living in the truth of your bond with everyone. Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens…
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JdR Podcast 614 - Saving the Planet: The Change That Matters
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9:42Bad Meinberg, Germany Event - December 6, 2016 Afternoon. John addresses a question on many people’s minds: what can we do about our degrading ecosystems, and what’s each person’s responsibility? 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. For more info…
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JdR Podcast 613 - The Beautiful Inevitability of a Self of Change
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27:44Totnes, UK Event - June 14, 2013. For this person, taking on the night shift with a sleepless baby and sensing the power in a simple hug became portals to some of life's profound questions for John to answer. 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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JdR Podcast 612 - Staying in the Sunshine of Your Awakening
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8:22Interactive Livestream Online Meeting - March 7, 2021 Morning. A spiritual awakening can feel like basking in sunshine, but what to do when the clouds roll in? John explains how to stay in your love once the experience has passed. Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life o…
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JdR Podcast 611 - Knowing the Difference Between You and Your Experience
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18:43Munich, Germany Event - April 10, 2002. John sorts out the growing sense this person has of being lost in her self and going crazy. Are any of her experiences real, and who is she, really? 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. For more information…
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JdR Podcast 610 - Your Door to the Great Beyond, Within
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40:25Amsterdam, The Netherlands Event - April 29, 2010 Evening. Feeling broadly content isn't the same as knowing you're vibrantly alive in this world. John unveils what's missing and how to realize the richness of life, inside and out. Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life …
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JdR Podcast 609 - Love: The Deep, Inner Substance of You
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8:29Interactive Livestream Online Meeting - June 28, 2020 Afternoon. Here's John's answer to a question that comes up for many people at some point in their life: what is love and how can we fully feel 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. For mor…
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JdR Podcast 608 - Actual or Real: Is There a Difference?
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7:29Interactive Livestream Online Meeting - June 28, 2020 Afternoon. John often refers to what is real and what is actual. What does he mean, and how do we know when we're being real? 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. For more information about Jo…
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JdR Podcast 607 - Living From the Wellspring of Your Heart
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13:37Interactive Livestream Online Meeting - November 22, 2020 Morning. A fundamental teaching on living from the heart, your return to the quiet happiness of innocence. 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. For more information about John de Ruiter go…
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JdR Podcast 606 - A Deeper Level of Mother, A Deeper Level of Love
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16:19Edmonton, Canada Meeting - December 5, 2013 Evening. The help you want to give your child may not be the help they really need. This conversation shows how motherly love can deepen and change. 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. For more informa…
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JdR Podcast 605 - The Cost of Cutting Yourself Off from Others
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9:23Maui, USA Event - March 7, 2000. How can you be around people you care for, but don't agree with? Dissociation only manifests more separation, and John shares how to stay connected. 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. For more information about …
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JdR Podcast 604 - Broken Relationship: The Kindness of a Hundred-Year Perspective
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10:02Poleg Beach, Israel Event - November 3 Morning. Imagine looking at the the pain of a lost relationship from the kindness of a hundred-year perspective. New possibilities will open, 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. For more …
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JdR Podcast 603 - Your Deepest, Most Delicate Belonging
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11:59Yehiam, Israel Event - September 12, 2014 Afternoon. The sense of entering the second half of life is sharpening this person's focus on what matters most, and raising some fundamental questions. 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. For more infor…
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JdR Podcast 602 - Honest to the Core: Oneness in the Midst of Separation
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21:49Tiruvannamalai, India Event - January 30, 2014 Evening. A deep dive into the power of profound honesty to make oneness as reachable as going to sleep – without actually falling asleep. 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. For more information abo…
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JdR Podcast 601 - Don't Go Figure, Go Sweetly Within
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21:18Edmonton, Canada Meeting - April 22, 2016 Evening. Sometimes, figuring things out doesn't work in the way we expect. Dissolving core patterns is one example of this, and John explains why. 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. For more information…
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JdR Podcast 600 - Out of Your Comfort Zone, Into Your Heart
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14:06Gillingham, UK Event - June 6, 2014 Evening. A perplexing and destructive habit is the focus of this dialogue. What could be so threatening about being touched by goodness? 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. For more information about John de R…
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JdR Podcast 599 - Parenting: What Your Child Really Wants from You
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11:26Byron Bay, Australia Event - December 8, 2000. John responds to a mother's wish to understand why her young daughter still seems unhappy, despite her best efforts at parenting. 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 R…
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JdR Podcast 598 - The Person, the Self and the Being: Identifying the Many Levels of You (Part 2)
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15:50Tiruvannamalai, India Event - January 31, 2015 Morning. This dialogue is a continuation of last week's podcast 597. John speaks about what ego is, the power we have to create mystery to conceal what is clear, and what takes us deeper than personal integrity. Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being,…
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JdR Podcast 597 - The Person, the Self and the Being: Identifying the Many Levels of You (Part 1)
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50:15Tiruvannamalai, India Event - January 31, 2015 Morning. Person, self, being ... what's the difference and what is real? Using different analogies, John explains how our different levels connect and shares the code to being what we really are. Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meani…
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JdR Podcast 596 - Beyond Sadness and Pain: Happy Without a Reason
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30:26Gillingham, UK Event - June 6, 2014 Evening. John reveals the source of the deep well of sadness and pain this person carries, and shares how she can reconnect with her original happiness. 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 abo…
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JdR Podcast 595 - When a Crumb of Truth in Your Heart is Your Home
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13:01Tiruvannamalai, India Event - February 1, 2014. John responds to a spiritual dilemma: a desperate longing for realization, coupled with the fear of nothingness that seems to come with 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 abou…
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JdR Podcast 594 - Fully Present in Your Body, Fully Present in Your Heart
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12:56Yehiam, Israel Event - September 11, 2014. Closing down to the experience of vulnerability can mean dissociating from the body. John shares a simple way to become more present however uncomfortable we feel. 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. Mo…
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JdR Podcast 593 - Honest to the Way of Your Heart
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15:21Chiemsee, Germany Event - May 26, 2014 Morning. An exploration of how honesty and an open, soft heart are connected, taking us ever deeper into the unseen roots we could remain in forever. 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 abo…
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JdR Podcast 592 - Beyond Self-Acceptance: The Way of Deep, Inner Healing
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15:31Bristol, UK Event - January 28, 2007. An experience of misplaced anger has raised the question of what real healing is. John takes us beyond simple self-acceptance, deep into the source of the finest healing of all. 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 awar…
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JdR Podcast 591 - The Truth About Compassion
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7:57Poleg Beach, Israel Event - June 4, 2015 Afternoon. When is compassion self-centred, when is it real, and how can we tell? An exploration of what it means to be truly compassionate. 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…
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JdR Podcast 590 - Can I Return to My Awakening Experience?
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31:50Hamburg, Germany Event - June 10, 2012. One profound experience of a different level of consciousness had a profound impact on this person. How did it happen and can it be experienced again? 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 a…
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JdR Podcast 589 - Starting Over: Living Your Awakening Before You Die
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24:21Rishikesh, India Event - February 22, 2020 Afternoon. After many years on a spiritual path, this person is no longer interested in more teachings. Can there really be nothing to do? John describes what stands in the way of living our awakening, and the value of doing that before we die. Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and i…
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JdR Podcast 588 - The Realization of a Rare Destiny
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37:01Tiruvannamalai, India Event - January 25, 2016 Morning. The longing to be free of any level of the self is at the heart of this conversation. What changes our destiny and gives entrance to 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. "Stumble forwards rather than falling back." Do you move by new knowledge or old decisions? John addresses what happens in the space of decision. 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 inf…
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Byron Bay, Australia Event - March 3, 2000. "There is free will after death, never before." John explains this rather startling statement and reveals why only love has such freedom. 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…
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JdR Podcast 585 - Beyond Your Understood Powers: Your Real Life, Within
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13:32Tiruvannamalai, India Event - January 27, 2016 Morning. “Who am I?” In this dialogue, John is responding to a person who really wants his spiritual search to be over but doesn’t know how that can happen. 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 …
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JdR Podcast 584 - The Meaning in Creativity and Service
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28:36Poleg Beach, Israel Event - November 4, 2016 Afternoon. This person feels separate from his essence in daily life, caught up in issues of survival rather than manifesting the creativity and service he believes he was born for. Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens…
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JdR Podcast 583 - Finding the Golden Thread Between You and a Difficult Parent
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11:25Moen, Denmark - September 22, 2014 Evening. This conversation opens up the difficulty of being with an angry father who still triggers your painful past. Is it okay not to see him, or is there another way forward? 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 awaren…
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JdR Podcast 582 - Don't Be Right and Don't Be Wrong: Be Together
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27:02Edmonton, Canada Winter Seminar - January 1, 2012 Afternoon. Relationship can be the grand revealer of all the ways we create separation and struggle. John points out some of the traps, and reveals where real togetherness lies. Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life open…
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JdR Podcast 581 - Beyond Panic and Stress: Swimming in the Stream of Your Awakening
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19:48Moen, Denmark Event - June 4, 2016 Afternoon. The stress and panic coming from her extreme sensitivity have eclipsed this person’s experience of her awakening. Why is this happening, and how can she return to her knowing? Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up i…
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JdR Podcast 580 - Becoming a Scientist of Love
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18:45Edmonton, Canada Winter Seminar - January 2, 2004 Afternoon. "You know what it is to be intelligent; do you know what it is to be a being?" Step by step, John shows how to explore our being, filling what is known intellectually with its extraordinary qualities. Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your bei…
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JdR Podcast 579 - How Are Awareness and the Heart Connected?
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20:24Tiruvannamalai, India Event - February 1, 2014 Morning. What's the connection between the spaciousness of awareness and openness of heart? John describes their relationship, and the effect this has on our nervous system. 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…
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JdR Podcast 578 - Connecting to Your Deepest Power, Within
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28:56Munich, Germany Event - October 30, 2011 Afternoon. The woman in this dialogue receives encouragement from John to keep moving forward in what she knows deep within, even when there’s a fear of not being strong enough to continue. Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life o…
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JdR Podcast 577 - The Materialization of What You Really Are
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13:52Rishikesh, India Event - February 26, 2020 Evening. "But that's not possible!" In this conversation, John shows how inner alignment and love can materialize our unseen deeper levels in physical reality. 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 i…
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JdR Podcast 576 - Quieted in the Midst of Panic
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6:28Amsterdam, The Netherlands Event - April 6, 2011 Evening. Paralyzing panic that strikes at the root of the will to live is the subject of this conversation. Moving beyond it depends on what we relate to, 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 …
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JdR Podcast 575 - Parenting: What Matters Most
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10:39Byron Bay, Australia Event - February 28, 2014 Evening. Questions about personal responsibility and what makes us truly human are on the table in this conversation, ranging from global concerns to being the best parent one can be. Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life o…
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