Loving Each Day

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What you experience during and after doing spiritual
exercises is very individual.

You may see colors; you may feel spiritual energy come in as
warmth, or as a tingling in your hands, feet, or head. You
may feel as though your body is changing shape or size, or
getting very light - or heavy. Your vision might get a
little blurry. These shifts indicate that your consciousness
is moving within you. Don't be concerned; they're steps in
your progression into Spirit.

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

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Consider that you don't have to decide at all. Not
responding outwardly is also a response. People do what they
do including you. Rather than let the outer conditions
determine what you do, seek the inner guidance that comes
from who and what is for the best.

With decisions that are personal in nature, like what color
socks to wear or whether you sell your house or not, there
is not necessarily much in the way of spiritual guidance
that would apply directly any more than if you take your
money, put it down on a number at the roulette table, and
ask for spiritual guidance. Spiritual guidance really does
not apply to these kinds of specifics.

Spiritual guidance functions in freedom and applies to
whatever serves all. Spirit shows how to learn and grow from
every occurrence.

- 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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When you feel separation or loneliness, look to what your
ego is doing. Is it prompting you to act as if you are
greater than others? Is it judging you as being less than
others? Or more than others? Or both? Are you demanding that
those around you fulfill your expectations? Have you become
adversarial?

Recognition has its place in this world and is fine when you
can keep it in a balanced perspective. Have you sought
recognition at the expense of a greater participation in
Soul awareness? Perhaps there is some assignment in your
life where the stakes seem high? Could you use this as an
experiment to learn about your motivation? What happens when
you are willing to question your motives? What happens when
you reach into "the highest good of all"?

If you would know Soul Transcendence, move your attention
out of the ego and into greater honesty with yourself. More
than speaking truthful words, be willing to honestly examine
your motives and change your behavior in keeping with your
learning. And as you move past the initial challenge this
presents, you may find qualities of the Soul: freedom, joy,
peace, loving and oneness.

- John-Roger with Pauli Sanderson
(From: When Are You Coming Home? A Personal Guide to Soul
Transcendence, p. 153-154)

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Abundance is not to be hoarded, lest it dissipate and the
joy it can bring disappear. There is an apt expression:
"From the one to whom much is given, much is expected."

Once you have been shown the laws of manifestation, it is
expected that you will then manifest abundance for and with
others. As you include others, your abundance can manifest
to an even greater level. Instead of thinking in terms of
"me," you relate to "us" in your family and your immediate
community, which allows fellowship to go where Spirit
directs it, while, at the same time, you responsibly handle
this physical level.

- John-Roger
(From: Wealth & Higher Consciousness, p. 58)

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You take care of yourself, and it may be necessary to let
others experience their pain and tension so that they can
understand what these things are and be prepared for greater
things that may be coming later. They have to learn how to
handle difficulties and discover their own solutions to
their difficulties. Everyone grows by this process. To take
things from people is to deny them their own
God-consciousness. Don't worry. They'll find the solutions.
They'll discover their own paths. If you point the way to
the Light, they'll find their own ways. There is an old
saying: "Give a man a fish, feed him for a day; teach a man
to fish, feed him for a lifetime." If you teach people to
fish, they will feed themselves.

They're free and you're free. In freedom, the loving can be
perfect. Discover where you can assist, rather than
interfere.

Assistance is a very beautiful form of loving.

- John-Roger
(From: The Way Out Book, p. 74)

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Turn inside to find that the Mystical Traveler never goes
away.

It's always with you.

It's always present.

It's always there for you.

- John-Roger
(From: Loving Each Day, Volume 1, p. 300)

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What you do in silence, God will reward. No one may see it,
but you shall be rewarded with the strength and fullness of
what you have done.

How will you know that has taken place? Go inside. Take the
time to be in your own quiet place. Listen, watch, sense -
and you may travel the spiritual worlds in awareness.

- John-Roger
(From: Relationships: Love, Marriage and Spirit, p. 198)

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The energy of the spoken word is described in the Bible as
the power behind creation: God spoke the word, and there was
Light.

There are words, which we call tones, that are names of God
and which connect back to the source. These tones are
extremely powerful, yet can be subtle.

- John-Roger with Michael McBay, M.D.
(From: Spiritual High: Alternatives to Drugs and Substance
Abuse, p. 82)

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As my Soul began to stir and come awake and consciously seek
a path home to God, I began to feel more and more removed
from this world and more "homesick" for the world of Spirit.
I don't think this is unique. I think many people experience
this in their lives. It often feels like something is
missing. Sometimes there is a sense that we don't truly
belong here. And sometimes there are feelings of sadness or
despair or a sense of having an invalid life or an invalid
expression.

I think these feelings occur when we have separated from our
Soul, when we have lost track of its existence and are
trying to deal with the world on its terms, rather than
nurturing our connection with Spirit.

The Soul wants to experience more of itself because there is
joy, loving, and peace. It wants to know itself and its own
divinity.

- John-Roger with Pauli Sanderson
(From: When Are You Coming Home? A Personal Guide to Soul
Transcendence, p. 164-165)

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The work in us that we started in perfection will be
finished by the Christ. All we really have to do is just get
on with our state of being perfect and not have a concern of
whether we are perfect here or we are doing perfect here. We
are to work towards that. And when we leave this field of
consciousness, that work will continue in perfection.

The perfection is not descending energy. It is ascending
energy, and we will perfectly arise into the heart of God.

- John Morton

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It is up to you to accept the help and put it into action.
You need to take the information offered, weigh the
possibilities and the choices, and then start doing.

Many people have had great ideas that they've written down
and then did nothing about them. Years later, one of those
ideas may have become a hugely successful product because
someone else did something with the same idea. The person
may say, "I had the idea first!" So what? You can have a
marvelous idea, and unless you move on it, it remains just a
marvelous idea. Then, in its demise through neglect, it may
take energy from you because you know, way down deep, that
if you had given it your best shot and acted on it, it might
have worked.

- John-Roger
(From: Wealth & Higher Consciousness, p. 68-69)

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Ignorance and the inability to act kills. But it tortures
first. Stupidity tortures, too. You get into the same "mess"
over and over. Maybe it's the same scene with your parents.
Maybe it's the same affair with different women. Maybe it's
the same surrender to alcohol.

Whatever form it takes, it is the inability to change that
traps you in a pattern. And you say, "I just keep doing it
to myself. I don't know why. I can't seem to get out of it.
It hurts." You're hitting yourself in the head; of course,
it hurts. Stop that, and maybe your headache will clear up.

And if you have an inability to stop, find somebody who can
help you stop. Have somebody sit on your hand. Or bind it.
Sure, that's a ridiculous point of view, but sometimes it
takes drastic change to force you into a new direction, a
positive action.

- John-Roger
(From: The Way Out Book, p. 92)

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You're in the physical body, but you are not it. You are on
the planet, but you are not the planet. It's a truth and a
paradox that everything you are to become, you are right
now.

- John-Roger
(From: Loving Each Day, Volume 1, p. 320)

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Every parent naturally wants less pain and more success for
their children, and you can do all you can to create an
ambience and attitude that lead your children toward
positive experiences.

Know, however, that scraped knees, physical and
metaphorical, are part of the lessons bringing growth. Let
your children have those opportunities, and support them as
they learn.

- John-Roger
(From: Relationships: Love, Marriage and Spirit, p. 98)

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When you are living from the truth of your beingness, you
become very realistic about what is.

You are able to perceive and work with what is - without
having to make any value judgment at all in your mind and
emotions. That will be a great freedom to you. You will
become able to perceive more and more clearly and with less
and less judgment. You will see things for what they are and
work from that level. It's a good place to be.

That's the way to find God.

- John-Roger
(From: Living Love from the Spiritual Heart, p. 5)

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If you want pure love, then go to where pure love resides.

Pure love is the Soul.

It is inside of you and needs no interpretation.

- John-Roger with Paul Kaye
(From: Momentum, Letting Love Lead - Simple Practices for
Spiritual Living, p. 57)

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I do not pretend to be the great authority on how to
negotiate everything so that it is all love and light.

I do know that there are plenty of lessons we all get to
learn about how to get along with our brothers and sisters,
how to make sure that it is about loving. In some way it is.
It all is love.

- John Morton

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Taking care of yourself is a form of selfishness, positive
selfishness. If you take care of yourself first, you can
then take so much better care of those you love.

If you sacrifice yourself, however, how can you help anyone
else? We sometimes forget that if we don't take care of
ourselves so that we can be self-sustaining, we can't be of
much assistance to anyone else.

- John-Roger
(From: Sex, Spirit and You, p. 72)

[caressa]

You can ask for the Light of the Christ to activate your own
Christ consciousness.

If you have been putting yourself in a position to receive,
you may experience a flash of knowing, of awareness, of
realization. When you are working in psychic areas,
realizations can often be fearful because they come too
fast, with too little preparation.

When you work under the protection of the Mystical Traveler
consciousness, you will be prepared for your awakening. The
Traveler will bring the realizations to your consciousness
more gradually. The veil that covers you from yourself will
be pulled back slowly, and you will reveal yourself to
yourself in a gradual progression.

You will come to know that you are one with the Father, who
is one with all His creation. Then you can look at all
things and express your oneness with the simple statement,
"This I am."

- John-Roger
(From: The Way Out Book, p. 89)

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Writing down your experiences after doing spiritual
exercises can help you capture your experiences which, like
dreams, may fade away from memory. You might track the date
and how long you did spiritual exercises, what chant you did
and how you did it, and any experiences you had. This could
be as simple as writing, "My mind wouldn't leave me alone, I
kept thinking of all the things I have to do." Or maybe you
saw a spot of color as you were sitting quietly and
listening. Maybe you have some beautiful thoughts or
awareness to write, or you have forgiven and released
something that was bothering you, or you have a solution to
some difficulty.

This is another aspect of observing; track what your
experience is, with no judgment of anything being too
ordinary to write down…or so grand that you think every
session from then on should be like that.

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