Top 150 John de Ruiter Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Realization is more important than understanding.”

— John de Ruiter

2. “Sunny is what you are. Everything else is what you think.”

— John de Ruiter

3. “The formless cannot be based on the form. The form needs to be based on the formless.”

— John de Ruiter

4. “When your heart is open and soft, it isn’t actually vulnerable: it can withstand anything.”

— John de Ruiter

5. “When you are on your deathbed, and you look back into your life, it won’t matter to you what you have done with your life. What will matter to you is what you have done all of your life with your heart.”

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6. “As soon as there’s pain, you know the gold is just beneath.”

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7. “Whatever your orientation is, it is working on everything around you.”

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8. “With your reorientation as awareness, difficulty calls upon your resources – not first the resources that you’re familiar with, but the resources of your own being.”

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9. “Surrender to the deepest level within that you’re aware of.”

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10. “Your real strength within isn’t the strength that you experience in your self. Your real strength within is in what you are as a being, deeper than what your self is. Your real strength is within your weakest weakness.”

— John de Ruiter

11. “If you don’t abdicate or misuse your power, pressure takes you into realization.”

— John de Ruiter

12. “Love is not an experience. Love is what you are.”

— John de Ruiter

13. “Your past determines your future unless you’re clearly moving past your self and responding to what you know in your heart.”

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

— John de Ruiter

15. “When a drop of water touches a drop of water there is no holding back – it joins. Water responds to water. Your being responds to what is the same, outside of you, as your own being.”

— John de Ruiter

16. “When a city is inundated with water, the water will move in all of the streets. Every pathway that has been made will be used. It doesn’t matter the reason of its making.”

— John de Ruiter

17. “It doesn’t matter how powerfully sexuality, one with your being, moves; it’s all profound goodness. You’re safe in it. What you know in it, of its depth and its quality, is what you’re saying yes to, what you’re resting in, what you’re warmed in.”

— John de Ruiter

18. “Without your entrance to greater reality in this life, greater reality has no entrance to this life. The meaning of all of this lifeisn’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

19. “Embodying your being is you earning your own being, earning your being in your body.”

— John de Ruiter

20. “There’s no mystery to integrity. There’s no mystery to oneness. When there is a core-splitting honesty, right there, awareness knows.”

— John de Ruiter

21. “Your being is real and it gets to have everything. It gets to have your preferences, your person, and all of your plans.”

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22. “In all of its vulnerability, profound sincerity does, in its relationship to knowledge, find its way.”

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23. “When awareness believes what it knows is true, the truth of what awareness really is, moves. That movement is love.”

— John de Ruiter

24. “Prayer doesn’t work in the way that you think. If you pray for good health and it is genuine, you might be coming into sickness. The essence of good health has to do with a most delicate well-being.”

— John de Ruiter

25. “There’s a depth of meaning all on its own in awareness being gentled. From within the subtlety of being gentled, the level of perception changes. Instead of perceiving the obviousness of experience, you’re able as awareness to perceive most subtle meaning.”

— John de Ruiter

26. “Depth of feeling and clarity of thought isn’t the same as knowing.”

— John de Ruiter

27. “When you are being true to what you know in your heart, your whole heart becomes clean.”

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28. “What touches your heart is meaning.”

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29. “When you lay down your life for what you are after you’ve died, you’re clean.”

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30. “What you are is the most subtle delicacy of being.”

— John de Ruiter

31. “You need to bring your awakening into city life. Bring it into fast-paced complexity where it thrives.”

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32. “The place of connection or separation in relationship to your own being, the place in your self where this occurs, is in your heart.”

— John de Ruiter

33. “Your sexuality is the engine of your humanness. Freed of your self, it is an engine of movement. It isn’t there to move your experience, but to move your being into your experience, bringing your being into the physicality of your self.”

— John de Ruiter

34. “What moves you, you move. That brings your sexuality into your being, through your heart, and that movement brings your being, through your heart, into your self.”

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35. “Truth is not a mystery – its greatest secrets are yours to know through simple honesty and surrender to what that honesty reveals.”

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36. “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.”

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37. “Awareness returning home is awareness being enfolded by what it knows.”

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38. “When you come from your heart in the midst of your self and in your life, you’ll be like a salmon turning and going upstream. You’ll be going against the stream. You’ll be going against what your self is like. In that way, you are training your self, your conditioning and the streams of your self.”

— John de Ruiter

39. “You’re not limited to your body as you’ve known your body. In the deepest levels of you being in your deepest body, there is nowhere that your body is not, and with that body you’re able to think.”

— John de Ruiter

40. “Well-being is like water moving down hill. When you block the water, the water turns into a reservoir, reservoir of well-being instead of a flow of well-being. To well-being it doesn’t make a difference.”

— John de Ruiter

41. “When you are being what you really are you absolutely flourish in the midst of absolutely everything.”

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42. “In being meaning, you naturally find meaning in everything.”

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43. “Everything needs to touch your heart. Everything that touches your heart brings out the deep in you.”

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44. “Integrate the unseen of what you first are in the midst of all things seen.”

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45. “If you die of cancer with only openness and softness in your heart, you will live and die integrating your self.”

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46. “When you really love, that makes you feel unsure in your self, even though it is love that reaches your heart.”

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47. “Where there’s self importance, there’s only a very little bit of you and that little bit is distorted. It’s in a holding pattern that is false to what it knows. That holding pattern forbids you, in that little bit of you, from being the rest of you.”

— John de Ruiter

48. “Give others their dignity by opening and softening in your heart to them.”

— John de Ruiter

49. “The movement of you brought forward is love.”

— John de Ruiter

50. “When you, awareness, are mastered by the deepest that you know the truth of, then you are no longer awareness. You are oneness aware mastering your self and your life.”

— John de Ruiter