Loving Each Day

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In this world, exercising perspective is an aspect of our higher nature. That's what we're dealing with as initiates: coming into our highest nature, our God nature, our Soul nature. And we ask for the Light to assist us with this.

Why would we ask for help with this if it's already laid out and prepared? We initiated it, so we are on track, we're moving, we're going. What's the help about?

I look at it as partnering, our becoming God's partner more fully.

- John Morton
(From: "Exercising Your Godhood," on the NDH website at www.ndh.org/template.php3?ID=301)

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All the haranguing you do to your mate is really your attempt to make them release the pure love you first saw in them and thought you couldn't live without.

- John-Roger
(From: The Spiritual Family, p. 37)

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Access to the Soul is continually available. How much you avail yourself of it is up to you.

In Soul, you step free from the past. There is nothing you have done that you cannot transcend because you are greater than any of your actions.

- John-Roger with Paul Kaye
(From: What's It Like Being You?, p. 12)

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If it's done in love, it will work.

- John-Roger
(From: Loving Each Day, Volume 1, p. 266)

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You can have feeling good and happy and joyful, and those are all on the levels of the mind and the emotion. Bliss is of the Soul. Then when that starts taking place inside of you, then you'll know who to take your initiation from. And that is one of the big criteria to test. And when you start finding out that you're loving more inside, and things before that would drive you up the wall, you're just now looking at the wall, thinking about it, then you'll know what the value of initiation can be to you.

Initiation is awakening you to the spiritual levels that you already live on.

- John-Roger
(From "Spiritual Exercises: Walking with the Lord", p. 10,
in audio tape packet #3907)

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Love is the essence, the core, the harmony within us, the prime mover of our lives. But loving is love in action. Love comes alive when it is shared with others. The more it is shared, the more dynamic it becomes.

- John-Roger with Paul Kaye
(From: Momentum, Letting Love Lead - Simple Practices for Spiritual Living, p. 19)

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You have to forgive yourself first.

If you say, "I fall short of my own standard," you might
want to revise your standard to be one of harmony and
balance instead of self-criticism.

Anyway, the Soul, the part of you that's the Spirit part,
doesn't care about what goes on because what happens is just experience, and the Soul sees it in all of its perfection.

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

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Our karma will keep us in place, having great potential, God potential, and yet it can also keep us in a lesser form according to what we need to learn. Personal responsibility includes whatever has accrued negatively. We've often accrued our learnings in unnecessary ways by not making the best choices that were available.

Sometimes we think, "I already got the lesson." Perhaps our past choices reveal a repeated disregarding of what we knew was best so that worse and worse choices are the result. We go through experiences until we learn so completely that we stop making the choices that don't work. That's the angel at
the gate to hell. We have the knowing that comes from the experience so deep that we don't repeat the unnecessary and poor choices. We demonstrate our learning experience by not repeating past mistakes. We then progress into results that reflect more of our good nature, the presence of God within us.

- 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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When people hear negative things, what should they do with
that? Forget it.

Go do spiritual exercises. Go be with the Lord.

Why? Because when you're with the Lord, you'll forget it. I
mean, the Lord's going to handle it.

- John-Roger
(From: Walking With the Lord, p. 107)

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Our goal is to move from the external power of the personality into the authentic power of the Soul.

- John-Roger with Paul Kaye
(From: What's It Like Being You?, p. 105)

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Don't bring things up to people to point out their imperfection or your perfection; just bring up the possibility that some things can block people from receiving the greater health, wealth, and happiness that is coming to them.

Then you can walk away and never say another word to them in that area, because it's their choice. If they weren't aware of the pattern, they may be thankful that you helped them become more aware. They may also say, "I know it now, but I just can't change it yet. Something inside is holding me." That's karma, and that's fine.

You can help them get through it, not by judging the karma, but by cooperating with them and holding the Light for them. This is important when you are working with other people, especially with your spouse.

- John-Roger
(From: Sex, Spirit and You, p. 59)

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If you exercise your Godhood, you'll live in truth. You'll love. You'll trust and have the compassion that can allow you to overcome your sense of separation, your fears, and your judgments. And when you do that, you automatically take on a greater mantle of love and support that God extends to those who love Him totally.

It's a great, great opportunity to be a lover of God because you can exercise grace through the greater connection that comes from true closeness with God.

- 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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People have rules that call one thing failure and another success. I consider each experience a success because it's an opportunity to fulfill my destiny of health, wealth, and happiness. Those experiences that don't present prosperity right away are just other sources of information, telling me
what symptom I have to treat, what behavior or attitude I have to change in order to manifest the prosperity that is waiting. If you give in to something that blocks devotion (such as doubt), you can block the very energy that is supporting your success.

Instead of retreating to a comfort zone that makes you feel safe but does not move you any closer to the abundance you seek, you can use your doubt to find out how to take the next step. The next step may be just the one that breaks you through to a level of abundance heretofore unknown.

- John-Roger
(From: Wealth & Higher Consciousness, p. 39-40)

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Your experience of Spirit will allow you to claim authority over your life and your consciousness. It is the only authority that counts for anything.

- John-Roger
(From: Loving Each Day, Volume 1, p. 271)

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I have found that Spirit seems to be ruthless.

Not the type of ruthlessness that hits you on the head or cuts your arm off and lets you bleed to death. But ruthless in the intent that if your intention is not very much focused towards it, it does not indicate to you that it's there.

After all the trials, tribulations, troubles that we have
gone through to get back inside, and then it doesn't say, "Hello!" or do anything, seems like a gross unfairness to the amount of time and effort that we've put into it.

Now here's the paradox: Spirit's always been there.

- John-Roger
(From booklet in audio tape packet #3907, "Spiritual
Exercises: Walking with the Lord", p. 20-21)

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Being loving in the moment is practical spirituality. Practical spirituality is about applying spiritual concepts to day-to-day living. You don't have to try to be spiritual. You already are. But you may have to undo the effects of conditioning to discover your fundamental nature, which is love.

- John-Roger with Paul Kaye
(From: Momentum, Letting Love Lead - Simple Practices for Spiritual Living, p. 1)

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Question: When I'm working off karma, is there a way that I can be assured that I'm not going to create more?

Answer: Do all things in God's name. Place the Light ahead of you in all that you do. Ask always that your actions be for the highest good. You may accrue some karma, but it will be worked off that night in the sleep state and cleared instantly through the grace of the Traveler.

This works only if your actions reflect living love, not ego
involvement. The best way not to accrue karma is to remain neutral. If you make a mistake, don't feel guilty about it; if possible, go back and clear the mistake. If you have a misunderstanding with someone, just talk to them and clear it with them. Often, karma is produced more by guilt than by the actions themselves. So either enjoy it or don't do it.

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

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We have a song in the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness that says, "I'm going to love more this day. I'm going to give more than I take. I'm going to live more for the sake of living love."

Those are great words to have on your forehead so that you see them going forward into the world.

- 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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The reason we do spiritual exercises is that when we move
into the Spirit, we get to see the dynamics of the emotions,
the mind, and the unconscious, and when they start to act
up, we say, "That's the emotions. That's the mind. That's
the unconscious." Then we may deal with it and clear it. Or
we may see that it doesn't last more than thirty seconds, so
we just let it go and we're on to something else.

You see, you can't see the top of the swimming pool when
you're swimming on the bottom. You've got to get up and get
out of the pool to see it. And that's what spiritual
exercises do - get you above that field of activity so you
can see it.

- John-Roger
(From: Walking with the Lord, p. 95)

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Responsible choices have loving and caring in them;
personality choices often don't.

- John-Roger with Paul Kaye
(From: What's It Like Being You?, p. 106)