Loving Each Day

[caressa]

Many people who've been doing spiritual exercises very, very
regularly and devotedly for three or four years are saying,
"Nothing's happening." All they've been learning is
discipline. And so I say, stop doing spiritual exercises for
nine months. They write to me in about four or five months,
and say, "My work's falling apart, I'm not doing the work
like I used to." And they start to tell me all the things
that are going wrong.

Now they're starting to find out that they're gaining value
in this world because they were getting up and getting to
work on time, doing the work, finishing it, going home,
leaving the work at work. And now they're taking work home,
they're worrying, they're upset, they're nervous, they get
colitis.

I tell them, "Do spiritual exercises again." And they start
doing it. They come back in tune. It's not designed for this
level but often it will do things in this level.

- John-Roger
(From booklet in audio tape packet #3907, "Spiritual
Exercises: Walking with the Lord", p.25-26)

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The Soul attempts to gain experience any way it can.

It attempts to use every medium to observe, identify,
experience. And it may get lost in that experiencing. If you
have been caught up in a facsimile through reading, films,
"hero worship" or another pattern of the unconscious, it may
take some time for you to step free of those patterns and
feel the freedom of yourself coming forward. Hang in there
with it.

Let the mind energy just disperse. Don't reinforce it. Don't
look for your inner experience to fit the way you read it in
a book. If an author is being "truthful", he'll tell you his
words are inadequate to describe his experience.

Yet you will take his words as being the ultimate and limit
yourself to the level of his words. That's very restrictive
to yourself as the divine child of God that you are.

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

[caressa]

Being loving is the greatest gift you can give yourself and
others. There is nothing in your life - or anyone else's -
that loving cannot heal.

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

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Often how a person will enter into a state of God is like a
sense of, "Well, I don't know what I have to offer, but I'm
surrendering since it's all I have. It doesn't really seem
like it's worthy, but I'll give it anyway. Maybe God can
find something precious in it."

Then God reaches into you, pulls out the most precious
thing, holds it up before you and says, "This was in you all
along and this is who you are." God lets you look at the
majesty of your own being and in that moment you are
transformed.

- 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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Question: I feel really low in energy and I don't know why.
I've seen health practitioners, and there doesn't seem to be
anything wrong physically, but I just can't seem to get the
energy up to do anything.

Answer: Remember that you get what you create. If you think
too much about that which is negative, you'll create that.
So keep your thoughts positive and your energy flowing
upward. You might also want to check out your diet
(physical, mental, and emotional), not only to see what
you're eating, but also to see what's eating you.

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

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This is a path of great noise and great silence. A path of
great serenity and great trouble. A path of total
fulfillment and complete emptiness. How can it be these
things?

That is where God resides - in all of this.

- John-Roger
(From: Walking with the Lord, p. 118-119)

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Personality-based choices arise from our desires - from the
wants of the ego, the false self. When we make a responsible
choice, we bypass the personality and the senses and tap
into Soul energy. When we tap into Soul energy, anger and
greed disappear. Anger is the false self saying, "You're not
doing what I want you to do." When someone doesn't do what
we want, we often judge them and make them wrong. Judgments,
as we've seen, come out of the false self.

When we judge, our body lets us know that's what we're
doing. We feel energy draining from the power center in the
abdomen. In an effort to get our energy back, we experience
fear. Fear is a call to action that triggers the release of
adrenalin. When adrenalin kicks in, we feel a surge of
power, but it is not authentic power.

Authentic power comes from the Soul.

- 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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If you hear people saying, "Run here, run there. Go here. Go
do this," for God's sake and your own, pack up your bag and
leave in the night, for they would deny you the experience
of your unfolding. Often, the experience is a struggle. But
the struggle is not anguish or pain. It is God revealing
itself to God. It is the awakening, the moving away of those
things that have become sacrosanct in our minds, in our
values, and in our emotions. We're not going to give these
things up because we ask, "What will I have left?"

When you give it all up, what will be left? The Light behind
the shadows will be all that is left. That's you. You're the
Light behind all the shadows - the shadows you create for
yourself, and those that you create for others.

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

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If you promote negativity, guess what you'll have. Of
course, negativity.

I know many people who live a life of health, wealth, and
happiness. None of them, not one, lives a life of
consistently promoting negativity. Sure, you may slip here
and there, and there is even an opportunity in slipping and
falling down: you can get back up again.

Getting back up means choosing what will support your
positive prosperity, instead of giving in to the negative
temptation of limitation.

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




When you receive the kiss of God, you get kissed all over.

- John Morton
Live class with John Morton on "Living Love" Feb. 23rd, 6:30
p.m. pacific standard time at www.msia.org/live

[caressa]

This Spirit that is God, which we call the Holy Spirit
because it's the whole Spirit, touches to us and we feel it;
we know it and we're convicted in it. And when we're not
following the path of rightfulness, it convicts us of our
sins. It points out the error.

But do you know what it does not do? It does not punish you
because it loves you. And it says, "Here's another
opportunity."

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

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Love provides the cohesiveness for every aspect of the
universe. Without loving, things would disintegrate; there
would be no form through which anything could be expressed.

Sometimes the loving is expressed in ways that are pleasing
to you, and sometimes in ways that are not so pleasing or
that are misunderstood, but the love is always there.

- John-Roger
(From: Loving Each Day, Volume 1, p. 272)

[caressa]

When you get to the place that spiritual exercises (s.e.'s )
become something that pulls you rather than something that
you're compulsive to do or you have to do or you fearfully
do, when you get to the place where the s.e.'s pull you,
that's when this thing becomes a magnificent obsession.

It's to take time for you and the Lord. To really take time,
joyfully, and the hours go by and you sit and look upon the
radiance.

Everything you look at after that has more of a radiant
quality to it. But because our ego is so tremendously
powerful, we'd soon tend to corrupt it. That's why we go
back inside, climb up the stair of awareness, look on the
radiant Lord, come back down again.

It isn't too long until a lot of the things that would be
corrupted, or that we would corrupt, are now part of the
radiant aspect, that when we see it reminds us that the Lord
is present.

- John-Roger
(From booklet in audio tape packet #3907, "Spiritual
Exercises: Walking with the Lord", p.25-26)

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When you find yourself in conflict with another human being,
it is often best to just hold steady in your consciousness,
not reacting, until the spiritual quality comes into the
situation and presents a mirror for the negativity to see
itself. When people get tired of throwing up their
negativity, they either leave the situation - which is fine
- or they drop the negativity - which is fine.

Either way, they know that the Light force is love and
strength.

- John-Roger
(From: The Way Out Book, p. 224)

[caressa]

The spiritual heart always knows the truth. Whenever you
wonder how the spiritual heart can lead you, start by asking
yourself, "Is this the right action for me?"

- John-Roger with Paul Kaye
(From: Momentum, Letting Love Lead - Simple Practices for
Spiritual Living, p. 27)

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Connected
You are alive in this moment. And you are connected to all of life.
You cannot take undue advantage of others without also hurting yourself in some way. You cannot help others without also lifting up your own life.

The connection is strong and impossible to break. When you give your best to life each day, you experience the best that life has to offer.

When you think and act respectfully, you are respected. When you offer real, unconditional love, you are loved.

When making your choices in each moment about what to say, what to do, what to value, what to discard and what to work for, remember this. You are connected to it all.

Value, appreciate, honor and make the most of that connection. What is good for all of life is very good for you.

-- Ralph Marston

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There is a greater level, a source from which all people come. We call this source God or Spirit. Every human being is connected to that source and is a part of it. The part of
us that is connected to Spirit, we call the Soul; every
person has one. We call the energy that flows from God, from the source, Light.

In the Soul and the higher realms of Spirit, this Light is
invisible. But it also flows through every level of our
consciousness in this world. It is what touches us when we read or hear truth (the mind), when we feel happy, joyful, and uplifted (the emotions), and when we are energized through the good things that we do (the body). Ultimately, our high self knows what is best for us and nudges us toward the highest, best choices. Our basic self, although it can easily get stuck in habits, is often most happy when we are living in a way that keeps us healthy and well, since its job is to take care of the body. We have a lot going for us.


- John-Roger with Michael McBay, M.D.
(From: Spiritual High: Alternatives to Drugs and Substance
Abuse, p. 66)

[caressa]

Go inside and pray in the silence where the Father knows you and will reward you spiritually. Do not seek the rewards or recognition of the material world because, if you do, you don't get them inwardly.

This is why I tell people, "Don't talk to other people about your spiritual exercises" because you'll get the reward of the world here. People will idolize you, love you, worship you, and you will not get the reward internally, which is the only place it lasts.

- John-Roger
(From: Walking with the Lord, p 109-110)

[caressa]

The vision of togetherness is only possible if two people
are willing to deal with it, honestly and without ego.

- John-Roger
(From: Relationships: Love, Marriage and Spirit, p. 57)

Joy that comes with acceptance is a special experience that
you may never have known before. And in time, in its own
timing, as long as you keep the focus and take positive
action, the abundance will come forward.

The trick is to have a good time in the meantime. The
meantime does not have to be a mean time. This life is
really just a journey, so you may as well enjoy the ride.

- John-Roger
(From: Wealth & Higher Consciousness, p. 47)

[caressa]

Keep order within yourself.

- John-Roger
(From: Loving Each Day, Volume 1, p. 288)

[caressa]

Our truth is very simple. Just keep filling up with
gasoline. Just keep the energy coming in. Because we can
then resolve all the blocks and our obstacles that we have
presented to ourselves by overriding them, by driving around
them, by whatever is necessary, by overcoming all of it. But
not as a destitute person, not as one who is failing, but as
one who is filled with this divine energy that we've called
the gasoline; one who continually has himself at this
repository of energy, and no matter where they go they can
endure. They can last through.

And it only takes one or two to show that it can be done,
and that it is being done.

- John-Roger
(From booklet in audiotape packet #3907, "Spiritual
Exercises: Walking with the Lord", p. 55)