John Ruskan > Quotes

“If you just can accept that your highs always will be balanced by lows – that you would not even recognize the highs without the lows – you will maintain a balanced, positive outlook about life. You will be able to relax when things become uncomfortable, instead of reacting in panic. In accepting unhappiness, you ultimately transcend it. You paradoxically achieve a higher, more unconditional form of happiness.”
― John Ruskan, Emotional Clearing: An East / West Guide to Releasing Negative Feelings and Awakening Unconditional Happiness

“When we speak of the left-brained masculine mode, or the right-brained feminine mode, it’s helpful to keep in mind that we are not referring to gender types, but to archetypal principles and energetic forces within us all. Both sexes possess male and female psychological qualities, and as we get to know ourselves better, we understand that to be true to ourselves, to be well-rounded, and to grow as a person, it is important to acknowledge, cultivate, and find a balance for opposite-sex psychological characteristics as well as same-sex qualities.”
― John Ruskan, EMOTION and ART: Mastering the Artist's Path

“Art takes place in the present. After we have learned the tools of our trade, whether it’s the chords, the steps, the brush technique, or how to deliver lines, we allow those tools to be shaped by the present, by our experience of the present, in the present, particularly allowing for the inclusion of feeling.”
― John Ruskan, EMOTION and ART: Mastering the Artist's Path

“Art occurs when feeling is portrayed in the material universe.”
― John Ruskan, EMOTION and ART: Mastering the Artist's Path

“Beliefs are created by suppressed core negativity, not the other way around, and it’s the core negativity that attracts negative experiences to you, not the beliefs per se. You can’t get rid of that core negativity by simply affirming and repeating to yourself that it does not exist. Such a misguided psychological principle has never been part of classic psychology, and has only come into vogue lately. Core negativity becomes known to us as feelings and emotions. As you release those trapped feelings, your “beliefs” change spontaneously, and so does your life experience, but you can’t touch that core negativity with efforts of the mind.”
― John Ruskan, DEEP CLEARING: Balance Your Emotions, Let Go Of Inner & Outer Negativity, Shift To Higher Consciousness: A Radical Inner Process