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John De Ruiter, born in Alberta, Canada to a Dutch immigrant family has shifted from being a shoemaker into a prominent philosopher, writer, author and influencer, giving lectures around the world in hopes to encourage people to follow their inner truth.
What advice can you give to someone who has not discovered their own path?
"Engage in a profound honesty within to decipher what a person actually knows to be true and hold up to what knowledge an individual only perceives [to be true]. One is encountered by many different beliefs, some may be based in real knowledge, and others just adopted or self-created to protect one’s heart from pain and suffering. The honesty addressed within identifies what beliefs are actually real and true and those that are not".
How will this improve people’s lives?
"At first it wouldn’t necessarily improve the experience of one’s life; if anything it may introduce a lot more difficulty. If there are core beliefs that are not congruent with what we first are within, there would be a lot of difficulty to reach an understanding with something different than what we were holding on to originally. If there is a ‘restedness’ that is responded to within, a really profound ‘okayness’ within, then the chaos that comes into our thinking will be sorted out to what is real and what is not real".
When you encounter different situations where you know that you are not at peace, how can you resolve them?
"You must open and soften in your heart, but first without focusing on something within, as this could accomplish some kind of change or alleviate pain. In opposition, if the focus is purely on opening and softening within without it having to have a particular result, then the peace becomes instant. This opening and softening can be accomplished by surrendering; letting go of the need to produce a result or the need to alleviate a pain or a suffering".
In your book, Unveiling Reality, you wrote that you are determined to not preach, and I quote, “anything that doesn’t happen fully to me first, because if it doesn’t happen I can’t preach it”. What is the one benefit that you find in this?
"It was a commitment to come only from my own innermost [instead of coming] from an already existing belief system.  Either way there will be a very high cost. If you’re not coming from what you first are then there is very a high cost of having to be something that you’re not. If you are coming from what you first are, the cost is letting go with the whole existence of the self in terms of having a self to identify with, as opposed to having what we first are to identify with".
One of the core values of EOL organization is that in order to reach world peace, each and every one of us should strive for internal peace. What do you think of this?
"It really is an excellent core value because of its simplicity and that it is based on something deep within. I’ve not always had peace myself and it took a number of years to really realize what I first am within. I later realized that to come to that peace within was really a complete surrender, something not based on having to change myself first".
What for you is the “Essence of Life?”
"Going all the way back to what we first are and manifesting a full blossom and a full fruit of that direct knowledge within that we first are".
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