Loving Each Day

[caressa]

The first few years that you connect with this life stream
called the Mystical Traveler, it can be phenomenal what
takes place. Things just open. The vision opens. The inner
vision opens. You see things. You know things. It's like,
"this is it!"

After you've been here five or six years, not too much
happens. What are you doing? It's very, very simple. It's
just a big channel. The first years, everything gets in. As
you get down here, not too much gets in.

And when it finally gets down to the gold thread, just you
get through.

You're the golden thread of God - or the Divinity, or the
mind that is in Christ Jesus is in you, or the Zen, or the
Buddha, or cosmic awareness, or total reality. It's all of
that.

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

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Spiritual exercises are a manifestation of loving, your
loving of Spirit and God, and God's loving of you.

When you chant your initiation tone, you are singing the
song of loving that has been sung by the saints and sages of
all time. It's a joyful process. Doing spiritual exercises
can also bring you the same experiences as those of a
mystic; chanting your initiation tone can bring you the
realizations that will rip the veil between this mundane
world and the experience of the heart of God.

- John-Roger
(From: "Reaching into Spirit" on the NDH website at
www.ndh.org/template.php3?ID=747)

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Love awakens us. When you experience the spiritual heart -
your loving nature - unlocking and unfolding, thank God from
your deepest being that this is happening to you.

- John-Roger with Paul Kaye
(From: Momentum, Letting Love Lead - Simple Practices for
Spiritual Living, p. 20)

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I suggest you curb any touch of know-it-all that you may be
carrying which sometimes masquerades at trying to prove
something or thinking resentment under the breath or
malicious obedience or subversive hostility.

Anyway, just move on. I am. Love it all in all ways,
always.

- John Morton
"Inner Worlds of Meditation" class with John Morton on the
Internet - Part 1 on May 23rd & Part 2 on June 1st, 6:30
p.m. pacific daylight time at www.msia.org/live

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Question: Are there angels in the Soul realm? What exactly
is an angel, and what is a guardian angel?

Answer: There are angels on every non-physical level. Some
people have seen angels on this physical level, although
they are actually seeing into another level when this
happens. Angels are non-physical beings who hold spiritual
energy and do spiritual work on the different levels of
existence. One of their "jobs" is to praise God
continuously; it's very joyful.

A guardian angel has a specific job - to assist, guide, and
protect a certain person. The guardian angel is one who will
urge and direct; it works like a sort of reflective
counselor. When you work with it, it can be effective.
People who have been baptized within MSIA and certain faiths
or groups have had a guardian angel placed with them at the
time of baptism.

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

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I may say that "God will take care of me," but if I identify
"me" as my clothing, my food, my car, my house, my
furniture, that's what I have to take care of. It's my area
of responsibility in this physical world.

So which part does God take care of? The part that lives.
That's the part that transcends the physical environment,
that leaves the body and continues on. God does sustain
that.

- John-Roger
(From: "What Can You Trust?" on the NDH website at
www.ndh.org/template.php3?ID=481)

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"Need for control" is probably the most prominent
characteristic of the false self. It is from this that many
other characteristics spring. Often the need for control
runs our lives, which is ironic considering that, in
reality, we have very little control over what happens in
the world around us. Thus, the path of control is a futile
one, inevitably leading to frustration and disappointment.

The false self's characteristic need for control sends it on
a search for power from external sources. We have to seek
outside ourselves for something to make us feel good. We're
constantly looking for that event, that nod of approval,
that recognition that will make us feel more secure. This
constant search for approval is evidence of the false self's
insatiable need for recognition by any means, even negative
ones.

- John-Roger with Paul Kaye
(From: What's It Like Being You?, p. 13)

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Spiritual practices are an upward path and bring continually
greater results.

- John-Roger with Michael McBay, M.D.
(From: Spiritual High: Alternatives to Drugs and Substance
Abuse, p. 78)

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Let's not look upon the state of your life as something that
we would consider less than what it should be, or that in
any way would cause us to withhold our love, our honoring,
our respect.

If we were doing more of this in this world, we'd be having
a far better time enjoying what's going on here, enjoying
one another much more.

- John Morton
"Inner Worlds of Meditation" class with John Morton on the
Internet - Part 1 on May 23rd & Part 2 on June 1st, 6:30
p.m. pacific daylight time at www.msia.org/live

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You can complain, or you can choose to go on past the
complaints to the growth, getting on with what works and
working it as if there were no tomorrow. By this commitment,
you can gain new avenues into your creativity, which can
result in a wonderful freedom.

You don't have to groan when you run into obstacles.
Instead, you can recognize that any obstacle can be used as
a stepping-stone. You don't have to curse the obstacle, but
you can find a way to use it to go higher, toward what you
want. If you commit to doing just positive actions, the
chances are excellent that you'll get cooperation on all
levels, including the physical, emotional, mental,
subconscious, and superconscious.

- John-Roger
(From: Wealth & Higher Consciousness, p. 42-43)

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Long-range goals are fine, but don't ignore the short-range
goal. Why make health, wealth, and prosperity just a
long-range goal? Why not also make that an immediate goal?

- John-Roger
(From: Wealth & Higher Consciousness, p. 42-43)

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Giving love enhances your love.

- John-Roger with Paul Kaye
(From: Momentum, Letting Love Lead - Simple Practices for
Spiritual Living, p. 31)

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Although spiritual exercises are designed for inner
experiences, the results often spill over into this world.

You may find that you are calmer, that things that used to
disturb you don't bother you as much. You may experience a
sense of well-being, of contentment and happiness. And
sometimes, you see more clearly what you need to do in your
life to handle things better.

- John-Roger with Michael McBay, M.D.
(From: Spiritual High: Alternatives to Drugs and Substance
Abuse, p. 86)

Today at my Al-Anon meeting, the topic was Step Eleven. When I quiet my mind and body, I am better able to listen to the spirit within.

[caressa]

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Sharing your abundance joyfully is a form of glory in the
human being.

That glory attracts more things. So when one person becomes
free of materiality, it can become like a positive
infection. Instead of greed infecting honest people, honest
people affect the greedy.

- John-Roger
(From: Relationships: Love, Marriage and Spirit, p. 196)

This is a good reminder for me to go to meetings when I am feeling good. I don't go to as many meetings as I use to, and I am sorry to say that I am often prompted to go when things aren't going so well.

I once read an Osho reading which said that greed was wanting to be othere than were I was at. Not happy in the moment, discontent, and always wanting more.

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If some people continually evoke a negative response with
you, you can put these people in the Light, knowing full
well that they are not responsible for your negative
response; you are responsible for it.

Things then become so much easier because you cannot hate
anyone or push them away. You can't hate them because they
are helping you to balance your past actions, to become
clearer, and to lift your consciousness.

- John-Roger
(From: Living Love from the Spiritual Heart, p. 46)

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During spiritual exercises, bringing spiritual frequencies
into your body can push out negativity that you've stored or
hidden in your consciousness.

Your mind may wander. Memories of things you haven't thought
of for a long time may come up. Feelings may surface from
seemingly nowhere. You might suddenly feel like crying. Your
mind might take off into lists of things to do, worries, or
concerns.

You are learning to simply observe, let things go, and keep
on chanting. Some of those thoughts or feelings may have
been locked away in your consciousness for a long time and
are being cleared out by the Light. There's no need to be
concerned; let these things go into the Light. You don't
need them.

Your focus is on observing and listening. It's your
opportunity to clear yourself and move one step closer to
your spiritual reality.

- John-Roger with Michael McBay, M.D.
(From: Spiritual High: Alternatives to Drugs and Substance
Abuse, p. 85-86)

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Q: I've been having a lot of bad dreams at night. When I
wake up, I'm really frightened, and it can take hours to get
myself back into balance and to sleep again. Can you suggest
anything?

A: Your dreams could be all sorts of things: balancing past
actions, working through unconscious or subconscious fears
or blocks, etc., particularly when the Traveler
Consciousness is working with you. Whatever they are, don't
give them a lot of power. If you wake up after a bad dream,
just go to work with yourself. Chant your tone or the HU or
the Ani-Hu. Surround yourself with the Light. Ask for the
Traveler to help you release the dream experience. Keep some
water by your bed and drink a little of it to help break the
intensity of the dream experience and to help you come back
into the body.

There is also a tone of "E" that you can chant which will
help to bring you back into the physical focus. You just
say, "eeeeeeeeee" - a long, drawn out sound. You start the
sound low, and imagine it down around your feet. Then you
take it up as high as you can, and imagine it up at the top
of the head. Then drop it back down as low as you can, back
down to the feet. That will help to bring you back solidly
into the physical level in a balanced way.

Exercise can also break the unbalanced feeling from "bad
dreams," so you might do whatever sort of exercise works for
you. Doing a few sit-ups, dancing to a little music, or
walking around are a few possibilities. Just do something to
get the body energy moving and to help shift your focus.

- John-Roger
(From: Dream Voyages, p. 105-106)

[caressa]

All things are of God. Each one of us is a child of God.
There is no one outside of God. We each carry a divine spark
of energy, the Soul, which is a direct extension of God. How
we relate to the Soul, how we express the Soul, how we
embrace it or ignore it are our personal choices. There is
no right or wrong way to do this. There is no better or
worse way to do this. There are many, many choices, and all
choices have their consequences.

God loves us all, no matter what.

- John-Roger with Pauli Sanderson
(From: When Are You Coming Home? A Personal Guide to Soul
Transcendence, p. 261)

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Experience is the key to understanding. So as we gain
experience, we cannot help but partake in understanding.

As we have an experience, something happens. Something
transformative takes place in our experience. There is
revelation. Even if we do not recognize it, if we resist it,
d**n it or curse it, the experience is still there. It is
undeniable. That is why it is important to be involved, to
be doing things so we are gaining experience rather than
attempting to do nothing.

- John Morton
"The Christ Within" class with John Morton on the Internet -
Tuesday Nov. 28th, 6:30 p.m. pacific standard time at
www.msia.org/live

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It's important to become aware of what a powerful creator
you are. There is nothing that you put into motion through
your mind and emotions that is not recorded somewhere, and
these creations will often come back to you when you least
want them.

It really pays to be very careful about what you imagine, or
"image in" to your consciousness.

- John-Roger
(From: Dream Voyages, p. 24)