Loving Each Day

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The divine path can be called many things. But it is what it
is, whether we like it or not. It will be what it will be,
and we cannot change it. We do not even have the wit to
change ourselves, so how could we have the wit to change the
divine path? We don't even have the wit to walk upon it. We
walk across it into the brambles and briers on each side.
The disturbance you feel comes from being off your spiritual
path. You can be off it physically and have great physical
disturbance. You can be off it emotionally and have
depressions or distress. You can be off it mentally and lose
your mental balance.

But I'll tell you something interesting. You can't be off it
spiritually.

If you can be off it spiritually, it isn't a spiritual path
that you're on, it's psychism. When people's delusions are
placed in front of you, use them as stepping stones, not
stumbling blocks, because they're just casting shadows in
front of you. Keep your eye on them, look at them, and then
go through them to the Light beyond the shadow.

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

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See the God in everyone.

- John-Roger
(From: Loving Each Day, Volume 1, p. 284)

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The attitude of thankfulness stops the mind in its chatter
and produces the ecstasy of the Soul. And that's hard to
contain if you're not used to it. It can leave you nervous
and upset.

And so we must train ourselves consciously here to have more
Soul impulse energy come through by praying, by meditating,
by contemplation, by Soul transcendence experiences, by
loving our neighbor as our-self.

And practice loving God in all things.

- John-Roger
(From booklet in audio tape packet #3907, "Spiritual
Exercises: Walking with the Lord", p. 21-22)

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Imperfection lies in your attitude, which comes from the
programmed mind; that's what stirs up the confusion.

Sometimes if you just stop thinking for a while, things can
get very nice for you. You can get so many things done
because there are few problems when you are not saying
"good" or "bad" to every situation. When you just say,
"There it is," it's easy.

Now, you don't play the fool and close your eyes to the
reality of your situation. But knowing something exists, and
giving energy into that, happen to be two different
approaches.

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

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Whenever your mind tries to distract you with negative
thoughts, or self-doubt, or comparisons with other people,
just tell it: "I know you're there. You're always there.
You're not going to go away. But today I'm not going to let
you bother me, because I want to experience something else."

- John-Roger with Paul Kaye
(From: Momentum, Letting Love Lead - Simple Practices for
Spiritual Living, p. 22)

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I've had lots of experiences of moving away from the loving
and moving back into the loving. Only moving back into the
loving really counts. When you realize that loving is what
really counts, then more and more you will be choosing
loving.

What we know as the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness is
a unified action of God. We stand in with its celebration.
As we step forward, it's a greater celebration, and as we
move in loving it increases the celebration. And really, no
matter what happens in the world, in the Spirit we are
transcending the negativity entirely and realizing a
celebration of loving which is an eternal truth.

- John Morton

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Demonstrate the loving to yourself.

When you eat well, you are demonstrating the loving for your
body. When you exercise your body to utilize the energy
better, you are also demonstrating the loving for your body.

As you think positive thoughts, you are demonstrating the
loving for your mind.

As you do things to keep the emotions harmoniously balanced,
you are demonstrating the loving for the emotions.

When you start to do these things, you'll live in greater
balance and joy, and other people will be attracted into
that force of love.

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

[caressa]

Doing spiritual exercises is not sitting and waiting for God
to obviously come into your field of activity and behavior.
It is to go to God's activity and field of behavior.

In other words, you make the effort to reach out. Then that
loving, caring, and sharing of yourself with God in the
spiritual form inside, and everywhere you see it physically,
becomes a form of spiritual exercise.

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

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As a divine being, a Soul, you bring spiritual light and
love into this world. You create a space for grace to be in
your life.

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

[caressa]

It's time that we followed the admonition of Jesus the
Christ: to let our Light shine out to all the world.

This doesn't mean going out and cramming things down
people's throats like a missionary, or doing the holy man's
disease ("we're right/you're wrong").

But if you split yourself, then you should have concern
because you are not single in your mind and emotions, and a
house divided against itself cannot stand. It will fall
because you built it upon the sands of time instead of the
rock of your own strength.

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

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You might say, "I don't know what I'm doing, but I do the
best I can." That's important. That's you doing your part of
the partnering - becoming God's partner. And when you find
yourself resisting, that's for you to deal with, knowing
that your choices include such things as resisting, holding
back, putting on the brakes, stopping, slowing down, or
letting go to find God is moving you all along at the
highest rate you can go.

The Mystical Traveler is working in all of that at both the
slowest rate and the highest rate because it's the
Traveler's nature to be with you according to what you can
handle, allow and choose to create. The direction is
towards the highest rate that is the highest good of all
concerned.

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

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Does it matter how you get where you're going as long as you
get there, as long as you do not inflict or hurt, but you're
responsible to yourself, to your own divine inner guidance?
It matters little, because the place is already prepared. It
has waited and waited and waited for us to claim it.

When humanity claims its spiritual heritage, then we will
have a new heaven and a new earth, and humans will be able
to reign in any dimension as the divineness that they
already are.

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

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Enter into all situations and relationships in a state of love, freedom, and responsibility.

You will find life flows more easily for you.

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

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It's worthy to worship God; that's worthwhile. We have a
name for it. In MSIA we call it spiritual exercises. So we
are worshipping God. We're following the Commandments.

People get astounded when all of a sudden they go, "God, I
have been worshipping God. I just didn't know that." How?
With my body, with my mind, and then, with my Soul. How do I
know I'm doing that? By the anchors of God's name back into
it.

And so we get to love God with our body, our mind and our
Soul.

- John-Roger
(From booklet in audio tape packet #3907, "Spiritual
Exercises: Walking with the Lord", p.28)

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Your experience is so much greater than anything you could
ever read in a book. Just because it's been written down
doesn't mean that you have to think it's particularly
special - for you. Certainly it was special to the author.

Only your experience will be special to you. And ultimately
it is your experience that will be your teacher.

- John-Roger
(From: The Way Out Book, p. 220)

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You don't do the spiritual exercises as a way to get out of doing work or to get away from the world or the people you don't like or who don't like you. You don't do them because
someone has been saying bad things about you. All of those are avoiding the relationship of yourself and the rest of God's body.

You do spiritual exercises as a sacrifice and an offering to the Lord.

- John-Roger
(From: Walking with the Lord, p. 105)

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Everyone acts on faith, even those who may be reluctant to
admit it. Have you ever sent away for something that was
advertised in a catalog? And I'll bet you even included a
check or your credit card number to pay for it. You had
faith that the product whose picture you saw would be
delivered.

I'm sure you can think of many experiences in your life
where you acted on faith that something promised or
something expected would happen. But in order to reap the
benefits of it, you first had to act on faith. You first had
to send in your order.

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

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Whenever we find there is need for healing, better to first
take a moment to relax and enjoy the majesty of the healing
process which takes place far and beyond anything we could
personally do to make it happen.

Each moment presents a great opportunity to bear witness to
the miracle that is in our midst beyond anything we
personally have done, are doing, or could do. Those who have
borne this witness have often found they are compelled to
kneel down, even prostrate themselves, in awe and praise of
God and those who come in his name.

- John Morton
Live class with John Morton "Spiritual Exercises" Jan. 24th,
6:30 p.m. pacific standard time at www.msia.org/live

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Spiritual warriors are trained in the heat of adversity. But
you know something? You're tempered by the Spirit of God.

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

[caressa]

The Soul is the essence of Light and love and Sound, and
those are the essences that stir you continually.

Soul brings joy.

As you express the essence of Soul, you demonstrate divine
love.

- John-Roger
(From: Loving Each Day, Volume 1, p. 286)