Loving Each Day

[caressa]

Charity truly begins at home. I see charity as that process
of taking care of yourself so you are not a burden on your
family and of the family taking care of itself so it is not
a burden on society.

Charity is doing your work so well that people around you
don't have to come along behind you and redo what you have
done.

Charity is handling your level of agreement and
responsibility so well that people say, "I'm glad you were
here. I'm glad you participated in my life."

- John-Roger
(From: The Way Out Book, p. 70-71)

[caressa]

In being patient, you are, once again, called upon to
support yourself in the fullness of faith - faith that as
you balance and clear, abundance will manifest for you in
perfect timing.

In the meantime, as you clear, you have the opportunity to
behave toward yourself and others in the fullness of the
loving Spirit within you. You may wonder how you can do that
if you don't have what you want right now, but is it better
to sit in your unfulfilled wants and complain? That won't do
anything except create negative feelings within you.

By patiently accepting what you have and don't have and by
continuing to act from a positive place in the "happiness of
pursuit," you'll be manifesting joy under any conditions.

- John-Roger
(From: Wealth & Higher Consciousness, p. 46-47)

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Sometimes it may be for your benefit to look at your mate's
concept of you and see if it is accurate or just their
conditioned eyes focusing on your imperfections. Just
because your mate may see lack of loving in all kinds of
things you do and don't do, as the song goes, "It ain't
necessarily so."

Their experience of you may be closer to their experience of
a loss from their past rather than the reality of what is.

- John-Roger
(From: Relationships: Love, Marriage and Spirit, p. 6)

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False-self behavior can keep us busy for a lifetime while
nothing really changes. We don't have to change anything.

But we may want to change our perspective, our outlook on
life. The false self functions in the realm of personality,
the ego. In this realm we identify with what we look like,
what we do, how much money we have. But what would happen if
we shifted our perspective?

Instead of seeing ourselves as stressed-out human beings
grasping for enlightenment, for some kind of spiritual
experience, what if we realized that we are spiritual beings
having a human experience? That spiritual being is the true
self.

- John-Roger with Paul Kaye
(From: What's It Like Being You?, p. 17-19)

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Most people would probably say that a successful marriage is
based on unconditional loving. The truth is, however, that
people usually don't marry because of unconditional loving;
they marry for conditioned loving. Conditions are presented
to each other, including that they love one another
unconditionally, based upon conditions. They often demand
that the other person fill that empty, lonely, insecure
space inside of them, and the person simply doesn't know how
to do that. No one knows how to fill up anybody else
regardless of all the romantic songs and movies. In fact,
very few know how to fill themselves up.

- John-Roger
(From: Relationships: Love, Marriage and Spirit, p. 16)

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When you work to expand your consciousness through the Holy
Spirit, the Spirit comes into the nerve area, strengthening
the sheath on the nerves so that you can contain more "high
voltage." Your nervous system will be able to contain more
power. The Holy Spirit enters into a receptor, perhaps the
mind or perhaps the Soul chakra, which is located in the
crown of the head. Spirit enters in, flooding you with love,
and the nerve area is filled with a different hormonal
process. You are then in a state of fluidity; you are lifted
and feel fantastic. The warmth that comes through you can be
so tremendous that you'll say, "This is better." You are
"tripping," in a sense of the word, but strictly under
self-control.

- John-Roger with Michael McBay, M.D.
(From: Spiritual High: Alternatives to Drugs and Substance
Abuse, p. 78)

[caressa]

Be loving to yourself and to others. When you are doing that
in the reality of each moment, all dilemmas will fall into
line, and you will begin attuning yourself to the greater
love that is the love of the Mystical Traveler.

- John-Roger
(From: "Reaching into Spirit" on the NDH website at
www.ndh.org/template.php3?ID=747)

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Question: It's very easy for me to give and give, but much
more difficult for me to receive. How can I learn to
receive?

Answer: You must be open to receive. If I have something to
give you but your hands are tightly closed behind your back,
I have no vessel in which to place my gift. But if your
hands are open and you reach out to receive, I can place the
gift in them.

The same is true for those things that are of Spirit. If you
are uptight and closed down inside of yourself, how can you
be open to receive the bounty that is available to you?

If it's truly difficult to receive, you might begin by
receiving in small ways. Let someone buy you lunch, open the
door or run an errand for you. Most people will be very
willing to give to you. It's you who decides how much you
want to receive on all levels.

- John-Roger
(From: Q&A from the Heart Journal)

[caressa]

Many people find that spiritual practices bring them what
they are seeking and fulfill the desire to "get high," to
experience something greater, higher, more loving, more
expansive than what everyday life seems to offer.

Through the Spirit, you travel inner worlds in a greater and
more complete way than drugs offer, under control and
protection. You are working to expand your mind and
consciousness. You know where you are going, how to get
there in a predictable way, and how to return any time you
want.

- John-Roger with Michael McBay, M.D.
(From: Spiritual High: Alternatives to Drugs and Substance
Abuse, p. 77

[caressa]

Many people find that spiritual practices bring them what
they are seeking and fulfill the desire to "get high," to
experience something greater, higher, more loving, more
expansive than what everyday life seems to offer.

Through the Spirit, you travel inner worlds in a greater and
more complete way than drugs offer, under control and
protection. You are working to expand your mind and
consciousness. You know where you are going, how to get
there in a predictable way, and how to return any time you
want.

- John-Roger with Michael McBay, M.D.
(From: Spiritual High: Alternatives to Drugs and Substance
Abuse, p. 77)

[caressa]

I am not saying to lie to yourself and deny that
irritability exists in you, but just to recognize that the
ability to be productive, calm, and joyous exists in you at
the same time.

You're the one who chooses which to act on.

- John-Roger
(From: Wealth & Higher Consciousness, p. 34)

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“As you practice your spiritual exercises, you may begin to
experience the higher levels. Those experiences are often
sacred and special and are best not shared with others.
Maintaining the sacredness of your inner life with Spirit is
a good way to contain and hold the energy of Spirit. Talking
about the sacred inner experiences can dissipate the energy;
suddenly, what was so very special to you is being talked
about, and the meaning and symbolism may become twisted
through interpretation - and then you may start to doubt
yourself. The gift that was given to you by Spirit is not
available to you anymore because you've given it away.”
- John-Roger
(From: Walking with the Lord, p. 109)

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“In this moment, we can forgive ourselves for forgetting we
are divine. We can say, 'God, Thy will be done.' We can
surrender the self-preserving nature of the false self and
enter into the eternal life of the Soul - not as a religious
concept, belief, or a hope, but as a living reality that
exists in all of us.”
- John-Roger with Paul Kaye
(From: "You, The Soul", an excerpt from "What's It Like
Being You?" on the NDH website at
www.ndh.org/template.php3?ID=607)

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Imagine if you will that you have a companion, a friend, who
is always available to you, who always knows the answers,
understands you, loves you, accepts you, laughs at your
jokes, comforts you, tells you what you need to hear even if
you don't want to hear it.

That's your friend, who moves past your objections, and
really loves you in a way that really loves you.

That presence is the Spirit.

- John Morton
"Inner Worlds of Meditation" class with John Morton on the
Internet - Part 1 on May 23rd & Part 2 on June 1st, 6:30
p.m. pacific daylight time at www.msia.org/live

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The only thing I could say that would be absolutely true -
but not known here because truth isn't really known here;
consistency is known here - the only truth I could speak
would be to say, "God is."

After that, everything is redundant because the concept that
is in the word God is all creation.

- John-Roger
(From: "God Is", on the NDH website at
www.ndh.org/template.php3?ID=252

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Arise to the consciousness of the Christ within you.

- John-Roger
(From: Loving Each Day, Volume 1, p. 256)

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Once we realize that the gold of God's consciousness is our
wealth, our support, our lifeline, and the supply of all
things and that we're in it, we feel so fantastically
wonderful that we want everyone to have it.

And there is plenty.

- John-Roger
(From: "What Can You Trust?" on the NDH website at
www.ndh.org/template.php3?ID=481)

[caressa]

When you are devoted to the Sound and the Light, you are
devoted to that consciousness which is the Mystical
Traveler, you are devoted to yourself, and you are devoted
to each other.

And when you are working with the Traveler, all things
unfold in their right and proper timing.

You can assist by loving yourself every step of the way, by
doing your spiritual exercises to gain a greater perspective
on what you are experiencing, by loving the people around
you and treating them with kindness, and by living with
integrity and honesty.

- John-Roger
(From: "Reaching into Spirit" on the NDH website at
www.ndh.org/template.php3?ID=747)

[caressa]

The truth is, we have a choice. Living from the inside out,
we become aware of other dimensions within us, and begin to
understand that outer circumstances have nothing to do with
our ability to love. When we let love lead, we follow the
goodness inside us. Then, we have no need to declare
anything that happens in our lives as "wrong" or "bad."
There's a simple phrase - "I love this" - that can help us
remember to look at life from this perspective.

- John-Roger with Paul Kaye
(From: Momentum, Letting Love Lead - Simple Practices for
Spiritual Living, p. 24)

[caressa]

We do not have to renounce our past. We actually must
acknowledge it in full, as if to say, "I did it all."

And we surrender to ourselves in the Christ, as a blessing
to live in the truth that is God's unconditional love,
forgiving all, accepting all, blessing all.

- John Morton
"Inner Worlds of Meditation" class with John Morton on the
Internet - Part 1 on May 23rd & Part 2 on June 1st, 6:30
p.m. pacific daylight time at www.msia.org/live