QUOTES AND APHORISMS BY JOHN DE RUITER
The following Quotes and Aphorisms have been transcribed from live dialogues between
John de Ruiter and his international audience.
"Honesty is the most profound happening one could ever experience.
It finally takes up from the discouraging path to truth, directly onto the road of truth."
“Having profound sincerity means that you know that you are pulling with what does so deeply pull you.
When you make an incorrect turn, there is no wrongdoing. Your making an incorrect turn enables you - through your own experience - to know that there is more back there in that turn... which then, for sincerity, pulls you to re-turn.”
“What is first credible within, on its own, has no limitation. Believe within, what does on its own, have no limitations."
"Even without expansion or deepening, tenderness is, on its own, indomitable."
"Stillness of heart is purity of heart, moving."
"Stillness knows no dissatisfaction; it is able to be in an environment of dissatisfaction without being dissatisfied.”
“When you are giving all of your self, as awareness, to what you know within as awareness, there will be no realized part of you - including your person - that suffers neglect. There will be wholesome care distributed to and through all of what you have so far become as a self and as a person. Such wholesome care, that comes from you, as awareness, being all that you know within all of your self and all of your person, gives you the experienced ground from which to know that there is, in you, much deeper ground from which to move this ground that you have come to know so far. Your comprehensive care of everything that is yours so far, enables you to step into - with understanding - what is next; your opening up what is next, yours.”
“The more you have in a realized way, the more as awareness, you are able to do.”
“As awareness, as awareness within your self, brightly release from the patterns of your self. How you do that is, by, as awareness, brightly identifying directly with the resonance within of that. In your doing so, what you are as awareness being then, is exquisite. As such, you won’t know your self, you will know you. As that, as you, feel. What you’ll be feeling is what you know.
“In your learning without using the self that you are accustomed to, you’ll come to know wholeness purpose in your having the self that you are accustomed to.”
“For you to get to know yourself, you will need to oversee the workings of your person for non-personal reasons. You will be drawing upon resources in your self that are other than those of your person.”
“When you get to know your self, you come to see that your person is your self’s face. As a person, you know that you have a self, but your self isn’t something that you understand.”
“Real knowledge invites discernment, whether that discernment is on the level of resonance and the resonance of knowing, or if it is on the level of seeing, or even further on the level of understanding. You do need to be discerning with whatever it is you are able to discern, other wise you can be misled. You can be misled even by a lovely feeling.”
“Your discernment as awareness is paramount. It determines, in your movement, everything that you become - even if all you’re able to discern concerning a particular occurrence within, is the profound resonance of knowing.”
“When meaning has integrated its “known,” it then has the experience and the proven reliability enabling it to move in the unknown, where the littlest that is done is of greatest consequence.”
"You can be authentic instead of being what you relate to as yourself. If the self you are accustomed to is not your authentic self, it is just self-involvement."
"You know the realness stream in you. You know that it is within that stream that you belong. And, entering that stream is like threading a needle: every part of you has to enter being the same manner as that stream in you already is."
"You leaving the stream of low level self-importance will never just ‘happen’. You will leave such a stream by bringing all of your awareness into one real and delicate point. You sustain being that by sustaining its value. It is neither a small nor a great task. It is real and complete."
"Are you being resourceful in a way that compromises your integrity, or in a way that supports your integrity?"
"Why would you work within all of the lower levels to fulfill what you know on the highest level? From what do you gain your perspective?"
"Development of such concepts on a higher level fulfills your heart, then becomes your sustained higher vision. It gives you a reason for being that is more than just knowing. It is knowing extended in real understanding... fullness of knowing realized on every level.
You’ll always be encompassed by what you know is greater, and you’ll always be developing. It isn’t just the expansion of being, it is then also the expansion of yourself, your person..."
"Your potential exceeds what you can imagine or dream."
"Living concepts can be your building blocks instead of your accomplishments. It is then, that such living concepts find your person; a being that is so human with such lovely and real form. Realness becomes so applicable and demonstrable... it is the real extension of your real identity."
“Is the realness in you on your own terms or on its terms?”
“A good intention, on its own, is not of personal use. As soon as you identify with a good intention, you are putting it to personal use. Then, in Reality, it is no longer what you feel it is. If you identify with the feeling of good intentions, that diminishes the value of the good intentions. You are then, feeding off of what you are being, instead of just simply being.”
“If a good intention stands on its own, then it is lovely. Good intentions do shine within... but in hindsight.”
“Real color isn't wielded. It is reflected in your person and it isn't produced by you in your person. It is the result of authentic beingness.”
“Stillness isn't the absence of movement; it is, rather, the quality of movement.”
“You can be authentic instead of being what you relate to as yourself. If the self you are accustomed to is not your authentic self, it is just self-involvement.”
“You know the realness stream in you. You know that it is within that stream that you belong. And, entering that stream is like threading a needle: every part of you has to enter being the same manner as that stream in you already is.”
“Nurture your sensitivity instead of needing what is other than that... nurture instead of needing.”
“A real man is profoundly sensitive and has profound regard for the Profound in a woman that he is in relationship with. He would put everything within the relationship on hold for that. It isn’t about the man or the woman, it is about the Profound: knowing the Profound and being the Profound.”
“First, wholeness, then its relationship. Otherwise, it will first be separation and then its relationship.”
“The fulfillment of awareness, the potential of you as Reality, is a functional, multi-faceted and golden identity.”
“There is nothing that simplicity cannot deal with. Simplicity knows its way through. Tender simplicity simply unravels it in a way that is the healing of your self.”
“Clean and fresh awareness exists being totally and freshly responsible; you would then be responsible for everything. Then, there would be much to be that would have much to do: Awareness being goodness that is busy giving form to the same...”
“Every stone within that covers a lie also covers a portal; a wonderful portal of awareness.”
“It isn't for you to consume, it is for you to become. It is the difference between having seeing, and being seeing.”
“Be knowing without distorting it, and you will see correctly. Don’t manipulate what you know in order to see what you would like.”
“You can be you, as knowing, and as freshness of being; making fair use of every skill that you have acquired.”
“You know the difference between being a serious fringe dweller and a serious Truth dweller. If you have been a fringe dweller, then, for you to make up the difference is to enter into a serious commitment... something you have been avoiding.”
“When all of your sensitivities are in line with knowing, when they are all for knowing, then, through knowing, all of your sensitivities naturally fall into place. Sensitivity then has real form and real function.”
“Profound, clean beingness is the first meaning. Personality is the second meaning. You can give the first meaning real personality: tender realness that cherishes personality.”
“Think what you know and give that tender feeling, or feel what you know and give that tender thought... And then be attuned to the most subtle knowing as to which, at the time, is most appropriate. That is how you sort yourself out. Love sorting yourself out.”
“Find the most delicate qualities within; then treat these qualities as tiny little seeds that you would plant in your heart, with you being the gardener.”
“If you are being warm to the tiniest little bit of realness in you, that is you warming up and becoming the same. Such warmth is perspective altering.”
“You can’t stand in realness in defense of what is not. Any part of you in which you are already being real – that stands on its own.”
“The more that your awareness is brought to a clear point, the more that you become aware of your clear and actual responsibility.”
“Realness incorporates everything that is available on a real level. You, as awareness, realizing everything that is your self, and wonderfully sorting it all out for reasons higher than the experience of yourself – that gives purpose to you as awareness, to everything that you know, and to your self. It gives you exquisite direction: direction that has no dullness in it, direction that is so wonderfully sharp, realness with ever-increasing form... The emphasis is on the realness, which does display itself in form. Form is available to realness, so then, what are you as awareness doing with the form? Do your various forms reveal how profoundly real you are being as awareness, or do they reveal your escape from that? Or, actively on automatic?”
“Stoke your fire with realness. The point of realness itself creates fire. That point of realness has within it, everything.”
“Validation and confirmation of a basic shift comes unasked for. It comes from everywhere around you. If it is a basic, real shift, then even children confirm it to you.”
“When you transcend your person, that extends your person. What you have then, is a transcended person able in ways you were never able before, having practical potential that you couldn’t even see before.”
“As much as you are transcending your person on each level of your person, you are then enabling your person to match you. This isn’t done by your person. This is done by you.”
“What before was a limitation, now turns into an invitation. This isn’t just being aware, this is you, within your mind, encompassing your awareness.”
“You are able to think outside of a little mind. There is more to your mind than what you think is your mind. You have subtle, living mind, with many levels of that... and that being true on many levels. It is all your mind. It is all available.”
“You are not limited by what you do or don’t understand, you are only limited by what you know.”
“You are able to extend far beyond your intellect and, as you do, don’t forget about your intellect.”
“It isn’t about how much time you have, it is about how much Reality you have within time. To make much of your time is for you to make much of Reality. You are not short on time because you are not short on Reality.”
“When you as awareness merge with Reality, so does time.”
“Profound change within the self can only take place when it is for what is greater than your self. It is very little, easy to overlook, easy to ignore. It doesn’t have a voice as loud as yours. It is the most tender voice within. You can only really hear it if you are genuinely interested in it, genuinely care about it. That will have you caring about something that is clearly more than your self, yet within your self.”
“You are able to be what profoundly touches you; something other than your own person. You are able to be that, within your own person.”
“It is first a shift in awareness to realize what is worth being as awareness. Then, it is your conscious shift into being such awareness. Then, it is a conscious shift into applying being such awareness. As awareness, you will have purpose that is greater than your self. That will have you loving your self, which you actually cannot do unless you are living for something greater than your self.”
“You can intelligently process your difficulties from a higher intelligence than your difficulty - not as a higher self, but as a kind and lovelier manner within while being in all of your intelligence. This does bring your self higher. You will no longer be a stranger to your self; you will be a kind-ling to your self.”
“You cannot blame the self for difficulties you encounter with higher realities. You can, instead, in a higher manner, accept the difficulties.”
“It isn’t about a renaissance of your person as you might wish it to be. It is about a renaissance of being within your person. That will make you a kind-ling to your person.”
“Every true arrival establishes a much more profound beginning.”
“The power of knowing can either be uncovered and embodied, or covered.”
“When what is of greatest value in you is truly a matter of fact, then it is that that has all of your form. Without form, there is no support.”
“Commitment opens the door through which form moves, giving support to what is important to you.”
“You being able to access what is deeper than your self does not mean you are being that. Value being for what you know is true; value giving beingness to all that you do know; value beingness more than any kind of personal satisfaction. If such an orientation of true beingness and value is not existing in the present, then your love of the Truth is existing for a personal orientation.”
“Being ‘present’ is just deeper; what matters is what orientation of awareness you are being present in, in the moment. Such an issue is much more relevant than the issue of presence.”
“Presence is being… but what kind of being is it that you are being? You cannot know the more without being the more.”
“Honesty is a beingness in you.”
“What works, is all of your love and all of your devotion to delicate meaning in you. There is no other way to be rooted in such meaning in you without you living for such meaning in you. Being that and coming from that… a knowing voice of most delicate meaning that is able to speak to the louder voices in you.”
"Even without expansion or deepening, tenderness is, on its own, indomitable.
Stillness of heart is purity of heart, moving.
Stillness knows no dissatisfaction; it is able to be in an environment of dissatisfaction without being dissatisfied."
“Relate directly to what has no value, and you have no value. Relate directly to what has little value, and you will have some value.
Relate directly to what you know within is of all value, enabling everything else that also matters to be set by your knowing and being such value.”
"What is first credible within, on its own, has no limitation.
Believe within, what does on its own, have no limitations."
“Unburden your heart by living from it. It is from within your heart that you’re nurtured.
Like letting your very first confidence within yourself, be of that.
Living from your heart isn’t difficult. The more that you like it, the easier it is."
