Loving Each Day

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The Soul has no concern about time or space. In the midst of personal travails, the Soul is laughing. When you are concerned that someone doesn't love you or might reject you or that you'll be fired, the Soul is saying, "Wow! New excitement, new adventure!" You're afraid you'll starve, and the Soul is saying, "This is wonderful; we might lose some weight." You're distraught that you might not be able to make your car payments, and the Soul is saying, "We'll ride a bicycle or walk, and get to see things at a more peaceful pace."

You think this is an idiotic philosophy, but the Soul says, "This is the divine."

- John-Roger with Paul Kaye
(From: What's It Like Being You?, p. 4)

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Kindness and compassion are gifts you can give yourself and others without qualification.

- John-Roger with Pauli Sanderson
(From: When Are You Coming Home? A Personal Guide to Soul Transcendence, p. 73)

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The more we align ourselves with God and the way we choose, the more we bring ourselves into cooperation and we flow with God's nature, which is a loving nature, a joyful nature, a peaceful nature, a giving nature, a receiving nature, a healing nature.

- John Morton

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There is nothing quite so nice as when you are in bed at
night and your husband scratches your head and rubs your ears, or your wife massages your back and neck. It's these tiny things that make the whole marriage and the whole love affair.

- John-Roger
(From: The Spiritual Family, p. 46-47)

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At the same time that we want to know who we are and that we are Soul, we can easily get stuck in the drama of daily living. We become attached to our mistakes and failures instead of learning how to experience success beyond our wildest dreams.

A key to expansion, to opening sacred inner space, is the divine imagination. Visualize the very best for yourself - the joy and the loving flowing within you and out of you - and hold that vision. As you hold that vision, it will become a reality because that's the real you.

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

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When you allow your mind to become calm, your emotions can stabilize.

- John-Roger
(From: Loving Each Day, Volume 1, p. 268)

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When you start exploring the inner Spirit that allows each person to exist as a special individual, you start finding a treasure chest of love.

- John-Roger
(From: The Way Out Book, p. 62)

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To become masters of loving, we have to go through an education process. This is not like going back to high school or college, however. There are no textbooks or term papers or exams, no foreign languages to learn, nothing to memorize. Everything you need to know about loving is already inside you. All anyone else can do is guide you in discovering your own loving nature.

Most of us have no idea that we can be masters of loving. We race around looking for someone or something to fulfill us, not realizing that what we are searching for has been available to us all along. Our biggest task as human beings is to learn to be loving. As we move in that direction, every area of life begins to open up.

- John-Roger with Paul Kaye
(From: Momentum, Letting Love Lead - Simple Practices for Spiritual Living, p. 20)

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Sept. 18

To be an initiate of the Mystical Traveler means devoting
yourself to working out the karma you've accrued while being here and to releasing yourself from that karma through grace and your good works, so that you are free to rise into the Heart of God.

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

Sept. 17

Get some deep rest - the kind that happens with your
thoughts being filled with how well the Lord is treating you while you drift off to sleep and go on holyday in the inner worlds only returning once your cup is running over.

- John Morton

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One moment of chanting your spiritual initiatory tone with devotion is worth one hundred done mechanically.

- John-Roger
(From: Walking with the Lord, p. 69)

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You can't help but be who you are: that's what breathes you. Your problems come when you pretend to be someone else.

- John-Roger with Paul Kaye
(From: What's It Like Being You?, opposite p. 1)

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Kindness and compassion are qualities of the Soul you can practice anytime, anywhere. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be smart. You don't have to have all the answers.

Kindness and compassion are like a breath of fresh air. We know that breath is a universal gift from God, available to all equally.

- John-Roger with Pauli Sanderson
(From: When Are You Coming Home? A Personal Guide to Soul Transcendence, p. 73)

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There comes a place in this process in which we simply must let go and let God, for there is nothing more we can do - try as we might.

In that we have an opportunity to witness the perfection in His creation.

- John Morton
Live class with John Morton "Finding Peace in Today's World"
Oct. 25th, 6:30 p.m. pacific time at
www.msia.org/live

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There is the love of getting along, the love of sharing, the love of compromising - to assist the greater relationship.

- John-Roger
(From: The Spiritual Family, p. 38)

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For the most part, dilemmas are self-created. Even if instigated by someone else, it is you who allows the dilemma to take control of your consciousness. Through awareness and understanding, all dilemmas can be dissolved. There is nothing that can bind you unless you allow it within your consciousness.

Everyone has the potential of freedom within his or her own consciousness.

- John-Roger
(From: The Way Out Book, p. 59-60)

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It's important to remember that there are really no crises or emergencies.

- John-Roger
(From: Loving Each Day, Volume 1, p. 267)

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The loving heart shoots up like a fountain, into all of life. Whoever encounters a loving nature is lifted.

As you express your loving, everyone around you is touched and awakened.

When you reach into the unconditional energy of Spirit, you don't experience love; you are love.

- John-Roger with Paul Kaye
(From: Momentum, Letting Love Lead - Simple Practices for Spiritual Living, p. 21)

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Calling in the Light is not necessarily a ceremonial, ritualistic practice. And sometimes we do pause to do it, to simply have a moment where we realize it's already done. As much as we think we need to do it all, we really don't do anything.

Often taking a moment to do nothing and pausing to be a witness to God's presence is the smartest thing to do.

- John Morton
(From: "Exercising Your Godhood," on the NDH website at www.ndh.org/template.php3?ID=301)
Live class with John Morton "Finding Peace in Today's World" Oct. 25th, 6:30 p.m. pacific time at
www.msia.org/live

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When you look at "the state of the world", you see many things you want to change. Start with yourself. Bring yourself into line first - one step at a time.

Taking care of yourself or changing yourself could have
profound effects on the rest of the world. But remember that you are not responsible for changing the entire world.

Your main responsibility is to yourself.

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

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Spiritual exercises become one of the most important keys to spiritual liberation in this lifetime, while you are still in the physical body.

- John-Roger
(From: Walking with the Lord, p. 45)

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Talk yourself into being in Soul. Fantasize about being who you are. Once you are in that fantasy, it becomes authentic.

I know that in my Soul I am free. If you don't know how to do that, pretend you do.

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

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Every Soul, in its own timing, will awaken to the greater Spirit and return to its home.

- John-Roger with Pauli Sanderson
(From: When Are You Coming Home? A Personal Guide to Soul Transcendence, p. 70)