Loving Each Day

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As you learn how to do and then drop all judgment of that
doing, you will find the golden path to your own salvation.

It is nice to know that, to a great extent, you can do it
yourself. And if you don't know how to do it now, then you
will evolve to where you do know how.

It's nice to know that there are infinite chances.

And it's nice to know that you get to create for yourself
those things that you want.

- John-Roger
(From: The Way Out Book, p. 223)

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Often, the simplest tools work the best. "I Love This" is one of the most effective practices for coming to a neutral, uplifting place where you can let love lead. Here's how it works: Whatever is going on in your life - whatever events are occurring, whatever thoughts or emotions you are experiencing - whether you like what's happening or not, accept it as what is and say: "I love this." (You can add other words, but the essence remains the same: "I love
myself for doing this." "I love myself for thinking this."
Or, if you find yourself in a difficult bind, "I love this
situation.")

If you find yourself responding to someone in an emotionally reactive way, you can say to yourself, "I love myself for the way I responded emotionally." If someone upsets you, you can say, "I love the way that person upset me." If you're
stuck in traffic, you can say, "I love being stuck in
traffic," or "I love this difficult situation," or simply "I
love this."

What's surprising about this method is that it works even if you don't feel any love when you say it. All you need to do is repeat the words consciously - in other words, pay attention and be fully present when you say the phrase.

Try this practice for yourself. Make a statement of love
whenever you can, whatever situation you're in. Observe whether anything changes inside you. Look on this practice as a fun, exploratory adventure.

- John-Roger with Paul Kaye
(From: Momentum, Letting Love Lead - Simple Practices for Spiritual Living, p. 25-26)

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There's not a real difference between what life
is about and what love is about. They're
synonymous because they have the same meaning.
But like other words that have more than one
meaning, how we use life and love determines the
meaning.

When we have our perceptions and our experiences
that say life is less than loving, or somehow
life is an aberration from what real loving is,
that's just a message that says we're not fully
aware of what loving life means. To find the
meaning of life just find the loving. If you
don't find the loving then find the unloving and
choose the loving of the unloving.

-John Morton

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Be more willing to live your life according to your true self and not what's happening outside yourself.

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

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When you act out of the false self, there are all sorts of things you feel you must do, and they all take energy from you. When you live out of the true self, you draw on a source of infinite energy. But as soon as you give attention to your true self, your false self is likely to say, "Hey, what about me," and do anything it can to drag you back into the exterior senses.

The true self doesn't say, "What about me?" The true self knows we must eventually return to it, so it is patient. It can wait, because it is eternal. The false self may be patient for a while, but it can't wait for long before it has to do something, then something else, and then something else. Living out of the false self, we become fragmented and procrastinate, not finishing what we started. Then we feel frazzled because life isn't going the way we think it should. When we finally look at the mess we've created, we once again rush to judge.

But as we've seen, judgment is a serious matter. In judging our experience, we separate ourselves from our own divinity.


- John-Roger with Paul Kaye
(From: What's It Like Being You?, p. 109, 111)

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The message has always been the same: In God's name you can do no wrong.

But make sure it is in God's name, and not in your emotional turmoil or the deceit of your mind.

Put God first and foremost.

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

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Choose your attitude. There are many things you cannot choose, such as your parents, race, color, or place of birth.

But you can very well choose the attitude with which you
deal with them. You can wake up "on the wrong side of the bed" and still not give in to irritability. What is the
opportunity? To recognize that, for some reason, you feel out of balance and to still choose to do those things that support you in prosperity, instead of giving in to the thing that can corrupt you.

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

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God is in the business of miracles, things that are
immeasurably good and yet unexplainable.

- John Morton

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Why on earth do you think we're allowed so many mistakes?
Because God loves us.

Why do you allow your children so many mistakes? You knew they had to make them. Why did you show them how to do it better? Because you knew how to correct their mistakes so they didn't have to do it over and over.

If you do that to your children, then would not God do that to us? He does do it to us. We're allowed the choices of mistakes until hell won't have it. And since hell won't have it, heaven will.

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

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Come into the process of understanding and maintain your calm by consciously, directly holding, not letting flights of fancy take you where they will.

Come back to this moment, continually, and you'll find that tensions disappear, distractions disappear, and you'll start coming into the calmness of right now.

- John-Roger
(From: Loving Each Day, Volume 1, p. 287)

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"Thank God" is a commitment to the Soul.

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

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When you can be aware of something and not get caught up in it, you are living in a consciousness of detachment, which can be very, very nice.

- John-Roger
(From: The Way Out Book, p. 223)

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If you enter your inner world in love, and you maintain that
love, you can live more freely and effortlessly.

- John-Roger with Paul Kaye
(From: Momentum, Letting Love Lead - Simple Practices for
Spiritual Living, p. 17)

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The Spirit we work with is entirely free of any confinement, illusion, or misunderstanding and full of freedom to love and live in the truth.

- John Morton

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The part that you need to be kind to is your ego, which
comes out of the mind and the emotions. Because the ego is
tied to your mind and emotions, if you go to beat it up, you
will feel mentally and emotionally beaten up.

Be kind to that part of you. Then when you go back inside, you will feel the kindness in your emotions and your mind.

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

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Spirit will open your spiritual eye for you when you are,
indeed, ready to enter into it.

Your job is to make yourself available to recognize it when
it is open. And so, as the old saying goes, you sit at the
feet of the Lord and look all day at his eyes in case he
glances your way.

And that's going to take a lot of practice.

- John-Roger
(From: Walking with the Lord, p. 88)

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Grace is clear Spirit energy that comes to you without any conditions on it.

- John-Roger with Paul Kaye
(From: What's It Like Being You?, p. 109)

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Where God resides there is never darkness, there is only Light. This has been a promise. This has been brought
forward again to be voiced - not brought forward as something new, but brought forward to be voiced again.

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

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It's a matter of loving yourself enough to clarify and clear the channel so that your success can manifest in reality, in this lifetime, for you to have, enjoy, and share.

- John-Roger
(From: Wealth & Higher Consciousness, p. 20)

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Rather than play the victim in an attempt to control others
while justifying your own negative reactions, you can clean
up, clear up, get up, and be up with the Spirit that
breathes you and prepares every single moment with full
access to the blessings.

- John Morton