Loving Each Day

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If you would tread the path of Soul Transcendence that leads
toward home, make it your intention to be a part of only
that which is loving. Ask to be guided and directed in your
intention.

- John-Roger with Pauli Sanderson
(From: When Are You Coming Home? A Personal Guide to Soul
Transcendence, p. 135)

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This reminds me of the Third Step Prayer in AA. Doing something out of love, asking myself my motive and intent.

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Consider that you have the power and influence to freely
direct yourself right now. What do you want to do with that
power and influence?

That power and influence within you is designed to direct
your life to success and fulfillment. You have tremendous
influence right now. You could go in any direction.

Where do you want to go?

- John Morton

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It has been said, "You are all gods. You are all abundant.
You are all creators." As you know this and experience the
joy of being part of this, you can experience the ease of
creating abundance, sharing it, and creating even greater
abundance, as an ongoing, replenishing process, all in the
perfect timing of Spirit.

- John-Roger
(From: Wealth & Higher Consciousness, p. 59)

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Charity is multidimensional. That outer form of charity is
very simple. It is just expressing joy outwardly. That
outward expression may come from the mind as good thoughts,
from the emotions as happiness, or from the physical level
as financial support or good health.

To express it outwardly, you may have to exercise your
creativity. It takes great sensitivity and great gentleness
to give into the hearts of others without abusing them or
making them feel less than the expression of spiritual love
that they are.

- John-Roger
(From: The Way Out Book, p. 74-75)

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Dwell on that which is good.

- John-Roger
(From: Loving Each Day, Volume 1, p. 312)

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In your taking responsibility, don't impose or be a
do-gooder when it is not asked for or welcomed. If you have
any doubts, ask.

If you can assist others physically or financially and if it
is comfortable for you and the other person, then, by all
means, do it.

Sometimes, however, you can just be with that person, in
peace, quiet, and loving, and that energy can accomplish a
great deal in itself.

- John-Roger
(From: Relationships: Love, Marriage and Spirit, p. 195-196)

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LOVING EACH DAY
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You can't create love, nor can you create joy. These are
expressions of the Soul.

Even in the midst of aches and pains, emotional anguish, and
negative thinking, there can be joy and love because those
are of the Soul.

The Soul's first name is Love, its middle name is Truth, and
its last name is Everlasting.

Love and Truth Everlasting.

- John-Roger
(From: Living Love from the Spiritual Heart, p. 6)

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When you come from the heart, from the center of love, you
do not come from the mind or emotions. You do not come from
the ego, attempting to control others or force anything down
their throats.

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

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With any of your choices you will naturally live with the
results and whatever comes from your choices. Whenever you
make decisions consider what truly is important that will
continue to be with you regardless of what happens
outwardly.

You can look upon each choice as freely presented to you in
love and trust that you can handle it, however you choose,
or even if you don't choose.

You will always learn from whatever happens.

- John Morton

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When you are attempting to evolve a successful relationship
with another person, that person may think you're trying to
change him or her - and there's no need to lie and say
you're not, because you certainly may be. You can say, "This
may look like I'm trying to change you. I am trying to
change something because I'm really uncomfortable with the
situation. If we can change my point of view, that may be
all that's necessary. If we can't, then before this gets to
be a knock-down, drag-out fight, maybe we should get a third
party to see if they can assist us."

People sometimes come up with the conclusion that they are
just not going to see eye-to-eye with one another, which
means their future together is over and they go their
separate ways. I'm not recommending that people break up;
I'm saying that it may happen unless each person can
compromise and is willing to say, "Let's work together to
change this."

- John-Roger
(From: Sex, Spirit and You, p. 67-68)

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You have the ability to turn whatever is going on to, "This
is good. I love this."

- John Morton

The program gives me the power to choose. I can change my thoughts, actions, decisions, as long as I don't pick up that first drink or drug. As a long-timer says, I don't have bad days, I just have bad moments in a day.

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Living love means that your love extends unconditionally to
all things.

You love everything present, no exceptions.

- John-Roger
(From: Living Love from the Spiritual Heart, p. 4)

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Charity reflects the loving that is the very essence behind
all creation. There is nowhere that it is not.

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

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Everything that could go right is going right.

- John Morton

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When you find truth in any situation, you are discovering
God. When you do not seek to manipulate what presents itself
to you, but accept and deal with what is, you are tapping
into Spirit.

- John-Roger
(From: Loving Each Day, Volume 1, p. 292)

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In awareness, you have the opportunity to recognize if
emotions have been running your life. If so, you have the
opportunity of making choices that will support change and
transformation. Notice that I said "choices" again. This is
not a choice just on a word level, where you recognize your
reactive pattern and say that things will get better.

Things do not necessarily get better just because you become
aware of a problem and then say it will get better. Things
don't necessarily get better even if you pray that they
will. But they are likely to get better if you first take
responsibility and then take action.

- John-Roger
(From: Wealth & Higher Consciousness, p. 145)

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One of the things that we are to learn about in life is how
to deal with negativity. This negativity can come from other
people and from nonphysical beings, can be in a geographical
location or attached to a physical object (e.g., a piece of
jewelry or a painting), or can be a challenge from the
negative power, what I call "the loyal forces of the
opposition," whose job is to provide us opportunities to
strengthen ourselves spiritually.

Since out of God come all things, there is nothing to fear
in any of this because it is all within God. At the same
time, it is a good idea to learn how to deal with it
effectively.

- John-Roger
(From: Fulfilling Your Spiritual Promise, p. 839, 841)

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There are no guarantees, particularly in terms of time lines
and rewards, but if you are going to get what you want, you
may as well face it -- there are dues to be paid. Those dues
do not have to be painful.

Again, it depends on your attitude. If you dig in with your
ego and refuse to change, then you may also be sinking
yourself into a rut of resistance. Success rides high and
may miss you below it.

A great part of self-improvement is a willingness to change.
A great part of change is letting go.

- John-Roger
(From: Wealth & Higher Consciousness, p. 70)

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Marry with the attitude that when something happens that is
hard for your spouse to handle, you will hold firm with
them. You don't say, "If you'd done it like I told you, this
wouldn't have happened." Deal with what's going on, not with
what you talked about last week. You might want to say, "You
know what we talked about last week and the week before that
and the week before that? This is another one, honey. These
are connected. Maybe it's time for you to look because you
may have a habit going against you."

- John-Roger
(From: Sex, Spirit and You, p. 59)

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It all comes back to these questions: "Who are
you inside yourself, and who are you relating to
inside the other person?" If you are relating to
the same energy force that is within you, the one
called God, you'll find it so easy to share and
extend love -- not the personal love or the
jealous love that says, "Do it my way or else,"
but the spiritual love that says, "I love you, no
matter what."

- John-Roger
(From: The Way Out Book, p. 76)