Loving Each Day

[caressa]

Why be concerned about what somebody else is saying or
thinking or following or doing?

The most important thing that I could emphasize is that it
does not matter what I or anyone else says. The only thing
that matters is what you say to yourself in your Spirit as
you lift and encourage yourself.

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

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Spiritual exercises are of prime importance.

They are your key to freedom. They're your key to getting
off the wheel of incarnation. It takes a lot of energy, a
lot of thrust, to break free of the negativity and
conditioning of the lower realms.

Chanting builds the spiritual energy so you have the
resources to break into the Soul level and even higher.

- John-Roger
(From: Walking with the Lord, p. 115)

[caressa]

In short, the human experience is so vast, so layered, so
multidimensional that it is unlikely science could ever
design a robot approaching such complexity. What is even
more miraculous is that all the ingredients of our humanity
comprise only a small part of the rich experience available
to us as total beings.

This total being is the true self, who we really are. Who we
think we are, or want others to think we are, is the false
self. The false self (everything that is not truly you) is
what you surrender in the process of becoming who you are.
When you strip away the opinions and postures and addictions
of the ego-driven personality, what remains is the role of a
lifetime - playing yourself.

You can start anytime. Why not right now? As you move away
from the self-defeating patterns of the false self, you move
closer to the source of nourishment and renewal. Here in the
true self - the Soul - we find Spirit, and we come alive.

- John-Roger with Paul Kaye
(From: "Who Are You", an excerpt from "What's It Like Being
You?" on the NDH website at
www.ndh.org/template.php3?ID=571)

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If you judge those who are involved with drugs, you lock
some of your energy up in that judgment and you are not free
to move into your own full expression. We can't judge those
who are involved with drugs, but we can help them get beyond
these drug-induced experiences.

- John-Roger with Michael McBay, M.D.
(From: Spiritual High: Alternatives to Drugs and Substance
Abuse, p. 68)

[caressa]

Since you are in a physical body and are bound by the laws
of this physical universe, you may as well accept,
cooperate, and get on with it. There are negative and
positive aspects to this physical level, and you do have a
choice as to which you will support.

You can go for money out of negative greed, go for money on
the basis of need, or go for money for the joy of what it
can get for you and others. Using the latter as a guideline
permits you to live on the physical level in abundance and,
simultaneously, to move into the higher consciousness.

- John-Roger
(From: Wealth & Higher Consciousness, p. 30)

[caressa]

Love your life. Love your family.
Love what you do as your work.
Love your cars. Love your garage and your closets.
Love the paint on the wall.

Right there, I've just given you a challenge - to love the
things in your life. Clean them up. Clear them up.

And if you don't have paint for the wall that's peeling,
just find a way to love that wall somehow, someway. Maybe
just look upon it and see beauty there when everybody else
sees an ugly peeling wall, that you're the one that loves
that wall.

- 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

[caressa]

One day the glory of God within each one will shine forward,
and people will stand face to face and look at each other in
the consciousness of love and find out that "Yea, verily,
when you've done it to the least of these you've done it to
me," because that "me" is the great big one.

Instead of saying, "I am that," or "I am that I am," you
will say, "This I am." If you say, "I am that or that," it's
not you. It is somebody else saying it. But when you say,
"This I am," it is that which is that speaks, and it is not
reflective or separated.

- John-Roger
(From: "Light Behind the Shadows" on the NDH website at
www.ndh.org/template.php3?ID=710)

[caressa]

As you love unconditionally, you love God, you love Spirit,
and you experience a perpetual upliftment.

- John-Roger
(From: Loving Each Day, Volume 1, p. 262)

[caressa]

I never found God to be fickle but I found me to be fickle.
Since God doesn't move, your awareness is moving.

And it's not that we don't feel close to God; we are God.
But the mundaneness of it is drinking and going to the
toilet and driving a car. That's the mundaneness of it and
it's also the boredom of it.

So we think the other thing is going to be more exciting. So
we want out-of-the-body experiences and we want to know all
of this stuff. And out-of-the-body experiences can get very
boring, especially if you keep going to the same place
because that's your karmic repository you're trying to clean
up.

- John-Roger
(From booklet in audiotape packet #3907, "Spiritual
Exercises: Walking with the Lord", p. 41)

[caressa]

When you live in the love of the Traveler, it is not
necessary to sacrifice the mind, give up the desires, or
eliminate the self, because that has already been done. It
is over, and now you need only live joyfully and in harmony
with your true nature.

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

[caressa]

Do you love someone, or are you "in love" with them? There
is a difference because if you are in love with them, you
can also be out of love with them.

If you love them for what they do, then you may not love
them if they don't do what you want or expect of them. But
if you love who they are, it doesn't matter what they do,
for you love them beyond their behavior.

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

[caressa]

If you enter into anything and the reason that you're doing
it is from your loving, from your caring, from the truth of
your beingness, that is the way to be.

- 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

[caressa]

You don't need an excuse to do what you want to do. All you
have to say is, "I'm going to do this now. I'm nurturing the
spiritual part of me."

You don't have to get sick to do what you want to do. We all
want to listen to tapes and read Discourses, but we'll often
put it off and not find time. When we're sick, we have a
great time to do those things. So we use our sick time for
up-time.

Free-form writing during that sick period also helps clear
out the junk. But the important thing to remember is that
you don't need an excuse to do what you want to do. You can
just go do it.

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

[caressa]

So where do we have to go in spiritual exercises? Nowhere.
It's all present. You're not "traveling" to see the face of
God. You're having "heaven on earth."

- John-Roger
(From: Walking with the Lord, p. 115)

[caressa]

Instant cures are very appealing; life today is so busy and
complex that we'll do anything to solve our problems as
quickly as possible. But I see it differently.

Life is not a problem to be solved. It's a journey of
awakening, and that journey is not a race.

You can run, walk, or crawl to enlightenment; the pace is up
to you. But trying to change the false self by judging it is
doomed to fail, because judgment itself is a product of the
false self. You'd simply be going around in circles.

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

[caressa]

When looking at the options available, it may be useful to
consider recovery from addiction as a lifelong process that
requires a sustained focus by the "recoveree." The disease
is not necessarily cured, as in bronchitis or an infection.
It is more akin to a chronic illness that must be dealt with
every day, much like high blood pressure or diabetes.

The recovering person would be well served by consistently
applying him/herself toward positive activities, positive
relationships, and a spiritual focus. Many recovering
persons view their sobriety as a gift of grace, a reprieve
granted by God. Sobriety must be nurtured, exercised, and
actively pursued on a daily basis.

- John-Roger with Michael McBay, M.D.
(From: Spiritual High: Alternatives to Drugs and Substance
Abuse, p. 74-75)

[caressa]

Expressing anger doesn't promote prosperity, but corrodes
it. The challenge is to consciously put energy into a
self-supportive attitude that says, "So what if I am a
little irritable? I don't have to dump it on others. I'm
still going to read the paper, meditate or contemplate or do
spiritual exercises, eat a nourishing breakfast, and count
my blessings rather than discount them."

- John-Roger
(From: Wealth & Higher Consciousness, p. 33-34)

[caressa]

Be careful that you don't mis-label and unduly restrict
yourself in the form of couching yourself upon "senior
moments." Better to be especially conscious and aware of
what this pattern is, as best you can determine from your
experience and intuition.

One of the things that works with those of us involved in
the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness is something I
refer to as "The Net." Essentially, it is that which catches
us despite our efforts otherwise to mis-align, disturb,
attempt falsehood, and the like. We don't get away with it.
Instant karma. Here and now. No lag time.

It's a tremendous blessing. It's also humbling, just as it
ought to be, to bring us to our humanity and remind us that
we are children essentially innocent and playful when we
keep ourselves open and willing to do the best we can under
the circumstances.

- 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

[caressa]

What we start here toward perfection, the Holy Spirit will
finish it with us in the Spirit world. We're blessed. When
you open inside to the Lord of your heart, to the Beloved,
then you're on the way. That's a sure path. You're going to
see a lot of us on that path.

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

[caressa]

Whatever your relationship with other people - lover,
spouse, friend, colleague, parent, etc. - use your Light
consciousness to lift them.

When you bring forward the consciousness of Light through
actions (not necessarily through words), you'll find them
lifting.

- John-Roger
(From: Loving Each Day, Volume 1, p. 260)