Richard Rudd

"My sense of being in flow with my life creates a good atmosphere. I'm generally fulfilled and happy, and I think that has more impact than anything else. When someone is living their purpose, it can remind people there is another way. It can encourage them to take that journey, and offer hope."

I had great joy as a boy. I was a showoff, and my mom would tell me to stop. That was part of my training, preparing to share joy with others. Passion and joy are part of everyone's purpose, in different ways and styles. The only real purpose for existence is to shine our light. If you can create more joy, more inspiration, more love, there's nothing more anyone can do in this universe."

"Meditation is a classic one. You create space for that truth to begin to emerge and reveal itself from inside you. My early methods were from the East, like meditation practices, Tantra, and Tao. I studied with several masters from the Far East. Those were building blocks for me."

"The only real purpose for existence is to shine our light. It doesn't matter what we do, but how we do it. You could have a humble life and fulfill deep purpose, or you could have a powerful impact as a statesperson or advocate. We have different layers to our purpose. It's really about shining as much light as you can while you're here. That can take many forms. It doesn't have to be a big impact on the world. It can be as simple as being a gardener, working with the land, with your hands, with a craft, with an art form, or with music. Musicians have always been among us. Their joy is to share their music. That's a metaphor for purpose, to share our light, to share our music. If you can create more joy, more inspiration, more love, there's nothing more anyone can do in this universe."

"My early methods were from the East, like meditation practices, Tantra, and Tao. I studied with several masters from the Far East. Those were building blocks for me. A friend of mine, who's a mentor of mine, a very wise lady, told me recently that founders generally live in eighty percent doubt for the whole of their life, and I very much resonate with that."

"I kept expanding and wanting to go further, which is why I eventually created my own way, the Gene Keys. I wanted to track my own way, and I thought if I created a system around it, it might be helpful for others as well. I have that kind of mind. I'm still tracking my own way, and it's still expanding into new vistas of higher consciousness or higher frequency."

"You have to have the courage to go on that journey of self enquiry to find out, what is this, who am I. Pausing is about bringing your presence to something, and it's usually joyful, although sometimes when you open that space, you become aware of difficulties, pains, discomfort, unease, or anxiety. It's much better to know about those things than to have them repressed. There's a little courage in this contemplative path. It's very simple."

"My highest purpose, which is another way I often phrase it, is really to hold, as best I can, and embody a state of timelessness. That means that I have to learn the great art of patience in life, and that becomes one of my great teachers, and it always has been, along with deep relaxation. From that point of view, my purpose is multi leveled. You have to create these spaces. I invite people to begin that practice and watch the magic emerge. You need a little persistence and patience, because you don't know which pause it will happen in."

"When we go back to childhood, we find clues about our purpose. True purpose is a sense of presence and being, and it's there when we're very young. What we're here to do can change, but who we truly are, that deep quality of our soul's essence, never changes. It's been there from the moment we arrived, though layers of wounding, trauma, and forgetting through childhood and education can erode that pure being. Recapturing aspects of childhood, remembering, and looking for clues can be a wonderful exploration. I had great joy as a boy. I was a showoff, and my mom would tell me to stop. That was part of my training, preparing to share joy with others. Passion and joy are part of everyone's purpose, in different ways and styles."

"The most mystical answer to that, which I feel has some truth to it, is nothing triggers it. It's an acausal event. It comes through grace. What we can do is create the conditions for that event to occur more often in our lives. I don't think you can make them happen. You can only create the conditions, the best conditions, and then allow them to happen spontaneously. The mystery of life is that you don't know when it's going to happen. You don't know when the mystery of grace will enter you and remind you of who and what you truly are. I love that. There has to be something we can't control. There has to be something beyond technique, because we're all obsessed with techniques, with how to get there, but this is one area where no technique gets you there."

"What triggers the cellular certainty, that memory of who we truly are without filters, can be many things. The most mystical answer to that, which I feel has some truth to it, is nothing triggers it. It's an acausal event. It comes through grace. What we can do is create the conditions for that event to occur more often in our lives. That's what the great contemplative paths or teachings are attempting to do. They're attempting to create conditions, space. Meditation is a classic one. You create space for that truth to begin to emerge and reveal itself from inside you. The Gene Keys, my teaching, are the same. They create, through the art of contemplation, a sense of spaciousness through regular pausing in our everyday life. As we create more and more of those pauses, and learn to really drop into them and luxuriate in them, there's a chance that one of those events, epiphanies, memories, or breakthroughs will occur. The more of those spaces we create in our lives, the more chance there is of those pivotal moments to explode inside us. I don't think you can make them happen. You can only create the conditions, the best conditions, and then allow them to happen spontaneously. The mystery of life is that you don't know when it's going to happen. You don't know when the mystery of grace will enter you and remind you of who and what you truly are. I love that. There has to be something we can't control. There has to be something beyond technique, because we're all obsessed with techniques, with how to get there, but this is one area where no technique gets you there."

"The road that led to me discovering my purpose probably began with a big mystical experience I had in my late twenties. Previous to that experience, I was drifting about in the world and interested in lots of different things. Then I had this big event that lasted for three days. It was a spontaneous event, and it put me in touch with a much more cosmic intelligence at the core of the universe. It gave me a completely holistic view of reality, a new view of reality, and that started the journey toward my true purpose, my higher purpose. That event was a struggle at many points along the way, because when you're in one of those heightened states of consciousness, especially for a long period of time, which I would say three days and three nights is, it's quite a long period of time to be in that state. I'm in awe of people who live in that state, I haven't met very many of them. For me, it was about having a taste of it and then creating a journey toward it by walking that journey myself, and I'm still doing that. My teachings, called the Gene Keys, are a part of that journey, and they're still unfolding. In a way, my purpose is still unfolding. Underneath what we actually do in the world is this sense of dwelling in that timeless reality of deep love, universal love."

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"I'm the founder of a system called the Gene Keys, and that has been a deep part of my purpose. In my teachings, the Gene Keys, which guide people toward their purpose, it's usually guiding us into a state of being, some state of compassion. My particular word is about timelessness. I moved through many methods in my search for purpose. My early methods were from the East, like meditation practices, Tantra, and Tao. I studied with several masters from the Far East. Those were building blocks for me. Then I became interested in the I Ching and Human Design. They were key components of my journey. I kept expanding and wanting to go further, which is why I eventually created my own way, the Gene Keys. I wanted to track my own way, and I thought if I created a system around it, it might be helpful for others as well. I have that kind of mind. I'm still tracking my own way, and it's still expanding into new vistas of higher consciousness or higher frequency. The Gene Keys have incorporated many systems. The Kabbalah was part of it, chakras were part of it, Human Design, other teachings I studied, and Indigenous teachings. Anyone who wants to explore my books will find these strands woven into the synthesis. I think our purpose is deeply hidden in our DNA, in our body. The Gene Keys are about reawakening that hidden gem in our DNA, which is our purpose."

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"My great task, and I'm doing much better at it nowadays, has been bringing in pausing. It really helps, because in all the things you have to do in your everyday material life, if you create these little magical pockets of pausing and populate that life, you have the mystical in the everyday. It starts to saturate the everyday, and then the everyday becomes mystical. The great epiphany for me is that they're not separate, and they never have been. There was a part of me that was divided early on, and slowly those two halves of me and my life have started to come together. It's a very lovely feeling. If someone hasn't found their purpose and they're interested, truly hungry to feel that inner sense of purpose and passion, I would invite them to learn about the art of contemplation, a contemplative way, and start creating spaces in their life so what's hidden inside them can emerge. This is the opposite of what most people do. We think if there's something we want, we have to go and find it out there. Finding one's purpose is the opposite. It has to emerge from within. It's part of our wisdom, our essence, our soul, so we have to slow down. In the beginning, taking those pauses takes discipline, day after day, but soon you create space where what's hidden inside you, that deep sense of being and purpose, starts to reveal itself. It may reveal itself in many ways. In one of those spaces, you might suddenly realize you've always wanted to learn the piano and decide to do it. There may have been a thousand reasons not to, but in that pause, the realization arrives. If you hadn't taken fifty pauses that month, you wouldn't have reached that one pause where it happened. You have to create these spaces. I invite people to begin that practice and watch the magic emerge. You need a little persistence and patience, because you don't know which pause it will happen in."

"I've had many, many moments of doubt. A friend of mine, who's a mentor of mine, a very wise lady, told me recently that founders generally live in eighty percent doubt for the whole of their life, and I very much resonate with that. You're the beginning of something, and it's usually something that's emerging in the world constantly. It's often changeable and changing, and it changes you, and that's been my journey. I've had a huge amount of doubt, self doubt, about is this for real, am I for real, am I being authentic, especially at times when I've been less than what I would consider in integrity. I've learned the fastest in those times of deep self doubt. In the Gene Keys teachings, every shadow contains a gift, so for me that doubt is actually a deep part of one of my keys. That doubt leads to inquiry. The gift of doubt is inquiry. It takes you on a journey of looking deeper, unless you're avoiding it, which many people are. They try to avoid it because they don't want to go there. But if you look into the doubt, there's magic there, because it takes you on this inner journey of inquiring, who am I, what is this doubt. It's little aspects of my old self that have not fallen away yet. There's an illusion to it as well, and my experience is that there's actually an end to it. It's a finite thing. These shadows, these states like doubt, are actually finite. When you enter into that heightened state, there's no doubt there. There's only cellular certainty of who you are and what you are. Doubt is a process of alchemy, where the doubt eventually gives way to truth, and truth is what is. That's the great secret for me about doubt. Doubt conceals truth, but it's a journey into the doubt, so you have to face it. You have to face all your own doubts, and then truth gradually starts to populate the cells of your body. More and more cells are resonating with truth, and less and less cells are filled with doubt. I think that's the same for everyone, but you have to have the courage to go on that journey of self enquiry to find out, what is this, who am I."