Loving Each Day

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One key thing really makes this work - and you can do this with the Mystical Traveler or Jesus Christ or the Buddha or your little daughter or whoever - and that is to fill yourself up inside with them. You think of them with so much love that if they were there, you would kiss and love them straight to God. You fill up with so much, with their essence, that you enter into it.

I use Jesus Christ.

- John-Roger
(From: Walking with the Lord, p. 106

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In the world of the true self, there's no need
for such calculations. All we have to do is call
on divine nature authentically - honestly,
directly, forthrightly - by going within. The
kingdom of heaven is within. The Soul resides
within. Whether we call it prayer, meditation,
silence, stillness, communion, or spiritual
exercises, making contact with divine energy is
the way to tap in to authentic power.

When we tap in to authentic power, we do not then
need to become anything in the world. We just
become present with the true self. The true self
is joyful and loving. It needs nothing external
to be joyful about.

- 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)
Live class with John Morton "The Blessings Already Are"
Nov. 21st, 6:30 p.m. pacific standard time at
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Love can sometimes take you into some pretty divey places, under the name of love. But if you really go under love, it will protect you. Isn't it nice to know that you don't have to be afraid of one thing and you're still protected?
Sometimes when you are losing weight, you get to look at some things that were put in you - "unloving" and maybe "afraid" are going to raise their heads and go, "Hello there." You need to be willing to look them in the face, stare them down, and let them fall away.

- John-Roger
(From: "Another Look at Adoption, Adopting Yourself" on the NDH website at www.ndh.org/template.php3?ID=147)

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What are some of the limitations? The times we may try to make our lack of success someone else's fault. And if we're not blaming someone else, we may blame something within us, as if we have no control over it. How many times have you not done something positive on the basis of, "I can't because I have a headache," or "I'm just not up to it
today"?

Then you might wonder why opportunity doesn't seem to knock at your door more often. If you have shut the door on small opportunities, the big ones may not come calling. Blaming
someone (including yourself) does not improve your condition, so it's an approach that can simply be dropped. Why waste time on blaming if it doesn't get you what you want?

- John-Roger
(From: Wealth & Higher Consciousness, p. 37)

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If you were free of your self judgment you could rest on the laurels of the Beloved who is you.

- John Morton

Live class with John Morton "The Blessings Already Are" - Nov. 21st, 6:30 p.m. pacific standard time at www.msia.org/live

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People say, "Oh God, help me!" They ask me, "Can you put something inside of me that will make me grow and develop faster?"

And the answer is, "Be patient, because that is part of your spiritual discipline." Be patient. Be now. Be here. Don't forget that it's all here already.

- John-Roger

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The Soul, the Spirit within, is perfect and is an extension
of God into this level.

The consciousness on this level is continuously progressing.


If you can awaken to the dual nature of yourself and others, you are awakening to Spirit in greater reality.

- John-Roger
(From: Loving Each Day, Volume 1, p. 275)

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Chant not as a repetitive gesture by rote, but as a new expression each time. Don't add up how many times you chanted the name of the Lord for sixty minutes. That's history; that's gone. Make each minute new, each second something that has just come into creation for you to awaken to God.

- John-Roger
(From: Walking with the Lord, p. 69-70)

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Being loving in the moment is an option that is continually available - a choice that everyone has the power to make.

It takes enormous strength to stay loving in the face of
inner and outer challenges, and the distractions of daily
life. But it's a choice that is well worth making.

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

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When you are in Spirit and Soul and find the center, the spiritual energy starts radiating out. But now it does not radiate out as a personality or as an expression of the physical senses, but from the center of lightness which is your own Light. It radiates out and becomes the order of your universe.

Then there is nothing you cannot do because everything takes on an equal quality. If someone spilled a bag of precious jewels, you'd pick them up and put them back. If someone spilled a load of fresh manure on the road, you'd shovel it back. They're both the same.

- John-Roger
(From: The Way Out Book, p. 47)

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Forgiving is a choice to let go, put the situation in God's hands, heal and move on.

- John Morton

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Do the best you can, and have loving as the keynote for your existence. Sometimes you'll fall short. So what? Get up and go again. The teachings say, "Do all things in loving." But when somebody doesn't do that, we don't say, "Now kill them." Instead we say, "Sometimes you fall, and when you do, get up one more time than you fall."

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

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The freedom that comes with the ability to sit for an hour
and a half and to focus on the spiritual reality without
even consciously being aware of the spiritual reality is so
spiritualizing. There's a thing inside that goes, "God, I
can do it." That will transfer out in the world to
concentration, attention, focus, and other things, and
you'll just start accomplishing. That discipline, that
focus, that attention of sitting and focusing and doing
spiritual exercises - that all transfers to other levels
here in the world, and you can accomplish a lot more in a
period of time than you ever thought possible because you're
really holding the focus.

Generally speaking, about six to ten seconds is as long as
we can hold a thought before we start to dump it or it
ruptures. But that's generally. For initiates who are doing
spiritual exercises, that doesn't apply anymore. The rules
are erased away, and we're writing our own rules.

- John-Roger
(From: Walking with the Lord, p. 98)

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Most of our difficulties start with wanting things. The
ego-personality - the false self - instinctively wants to
smell and taste and touch and feel and hear and see. That
wanting draws us into the world and worldly pursuits and
sets us up to be disappointed, to feel the pain of being
unfulfilled. This is part of the human condition. It's also
the way we learn. If we don't get the lesson the first time,
we'll be given another opportunity - and another and
another. If we still haven't learned, we might get
counseling or educate ourselves through reading uplifting
material, meditate, or go on retreat in order to put our
senses back under our direction, rather than allowing them
to direct 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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How do you mature emotionally? I'm going to give it to you
in just a few words: be kind to yourself. That's how you
mature emotionally. When you take anything that I say or do,
or that anybody else says and does, including yourself, and
go negative with it, you are emotionally immature.

What does an emotional scale look like? A lot of highs and
lows and a lot of in-betweens. We have to learn to smooth
the curve. Smoothing the curve shows that there's a
progression of ability and understanding. There are times
when you'd like to just tell somebody where to go, and you
don't. That is the maturing moment in your emotional
existence. You could rightfully, righteously, purposefully,
directionally, strike at them, and you don't, you withhold
the hit. That is a real important moment. It's a turning
point inside of you.

- John-Roger

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Whatever you did up to this point, let it be okay because
here you are now, seeking a way to improve your life - not
just to make it better than yesterday, but to actually
create a life filled with prosperity. Any limited levels you
have experienced up to now can even be regarded as valuable
because here you are, right now, sitting in the lap of
luxurious opportunity.

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

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Loving is what life is about, and this world is designed to reflect a process for increasing the loving. No matter what the conditions present, loving is always a supreme choice.

- John Morton

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Many people want the veil to be rent from their vision, and
they unfold in pain and anguish. The way of the Movement of
Spiritual Inner Awareness is not a path of suffering or
anguish. It is a path of divine love, of unfoldment, of
taking those around you and lifting them up.

- John-Roger

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Enter into the warmth and graciousness of God within you. Go
inside to Spirit, to God, to your own loving nature.

Don't go inside and look at your emotions, or all you'll see
is upset. Don't go inside and look at your mind; it will
keep pushing you back out here, and you'll never see
anything else.

Go past those levels and you'll start moving into some of
the most glorious territories that have yet to be
investigated.

- John-Roger
(From: Loving Each Day, Volume 1, p. 276)

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Love is the key. Loving is the answer.

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