Loving Each Day

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On this level, you can best serve your own spiritual progression by expressing lovingly towards everyone you encounter. So as you go about your daily life, be kind and friendly to others.

Kindness is authentic, heartfelt action towards somebody, being friendly is being loving, and the love we teach in MSIA is the love of understanding, acceptance, and support. It's the love that says, "Whatever you do is fine. I'll assist you, and I will lift you." It's a peaceful, easy-going, flowing love. And a statement of your maturing behavior is to love just because you're going to love: "I love because of who I am."

- John-Roger
(From: Living Love from the Spiritual Heart, p. 36)

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The only thing I have found to work is loving. When that loving becomes unconditional, which is a neutral state, we are in the Beloved. There is no judgment, no strain, and no tension. It's a beautiful state to be in.

- John-Roger with Paul Kaye
(From: The Rest of Your Life, p. 183)

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One mission I find we all share is to love and be loved. That is a mission. That is a truth. That is true about all of us.

If you are not aware of it right now, take this moment to look in your heart and see that all you want is to love and be loved.

You are the Beloved.

- John Morton
(From: You Are the Blessings, p. 176

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Grace is not hard. If it is starting to be hard, you are under the law.

So you even have to give up the struggle of going for grace, which might be the thing that releases you so you can experience it. Grace is not something you go after as much as it is something you allow. You just let it become. You may want it to come like thunder, lightning, or a big train so you know it is there -- you know, with lots of noise and drama. It comes in naturally, however, like breathing, and you may not even know it is happening.

- John-Roger
(From: Fulfilling Your Spiritual Promise, p. 1229)

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When we speak of the highest good, we speak of the highest God form, the God of all things.

And when you honestly ask for things "for my highest good," your experiences will be for your highest good.

If you find yourself being blocked in your pursuit of a particular goal, you might be wise to step back, take another look at your actions and motivations, and reevaluate whether the goal is for your highest good and the highest good of those around you.

- John-Roger
(From: Timeless Wisdoms, Vol. One, p. 27)

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If you decide that you can't move until you get more energy, you'll be stationary for an awfully long time.

As soon as you start moving your body, that very action says that you need more energy, and that energy will start moving into you.

And if you use the energy to complete and to finish, you will be supplied more from a higher level.

- John-Roger with Paul Kaye
(From: The Rest of Your Life, p. 209)

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LOVING EACH DAY
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If you can always come from love, pretty soon you will be love. Then you will be the living love, which is the Beloved, and that is the spiritual promise.

- John-Roger
(From: Fulfilling Your Spiritual Promise, p. 1228)

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People have waited for two thousand years for the King of Kings to appear in the sky and light up the world, but the King of Kings must first appear in your heart and light up your world.

And that only happens when you have prepared that place inside of you where it can appear and live as your guiding Light.

- John-Roger
(From: Timeless Wisdoms, Vol. One, p. 24)

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Even when you do forget, being human as you are, and things do not go the way you want or expect, the decision to choose into the loving, caring, and sharing will always assist and support you.

As you understand and apply that, remember to stay conscious and to be reminded through your openness, through your trust and acceptance, that whatever is taking place, whatever the conditions are in your life in this world, loving is always present.

- John Morton
(From: You Are the Blessings, p. 183

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If you have established yourself in consciousness on the Soul level, you move into that realm, and the pattern of return is broken.

Once you move above the fifth realm, into positive Spirit, you do not have to return again to the physical earth.

Your own Soul stands as the judge and places you on the correct realm, on the appropriate level. There is no outside judge; your own Soul judges you -- and so honestly that you can't cheat even a little bit. It knows everything you've done and thought and felt, so it can be completely fair. And it is completely fair.

- John-Roger
(From: Dream Voyages, p. 66)

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Some people who are living in grace and have been for a long time are moving very slowly into the realization of it.

After maybe ten or twelve years of Soul Awareness Discourses, they go back and read Discourse 1 or 2 and realize, "Oh, my God, I am really full of something beautiful." They may look at the notes they wrote in the early Discourses and realize that they do not go through those things anymore.

- John-Roger
(From: Fulfilling Your Spiritual Promise, p. 1229)

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Many people are becoming aware of their true selves, their divinity. They say, simply, "I know now." Their reward is to awaken.

- John-Roger with Paul Kaye
(From: The Rest of Your Life, p. 197)

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Many people are becoming aware of their true selves, their divinity. They say, simply, "I know now." Their reward is to awaken.

- John-Roger with Paul Kaye
(From: The Rest of Your Life, p. 197)

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I found out a long time ago that what the Lord does is perfect, and there is nothing designed to hurt or harm you.

- John-Roger
(From: Living Love from the Spiritual Heart, p. 32)

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You can always begin by asking for more awareness of the blessings in what is present.

- John Morton
(From: You Are the Blessings, p. xv, John Morton's new book

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It is important not to set up a hierarchy of consciousness for a reference point, but to lay things out on a horizontal continuum. That way you don't have to look at anything as being good or bad or at the top or bottom -- things are just here and here and here and here. And you simply approach each thing as a matter-of-fact "here it is."

And if you're saying to yourself, "Oh my God, I have this thing inside of me. It just keeps coming up -- I hear it. And now I have this symbol in my mind. It's always here. What is it?" the answer is, "It doesn't matter. There is no way to know." And if you ask, "What can I do with it?" the answer is, "Nothing." And if you ask, "How can I get rid of it?" the answer is, "Get busy and do something physical." That will resolve the dilemma.

- John-Roger
(From: The Way Out Book, p. 215)

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There is no need for comparison or envy when we encounter someone who thinks they're so wonderful and great, because we can all smile in the knowledge that they are going to be part of the ordinariness before too long.

The Beloved eventually reduces us all to ordinariness, because ordinariness is the prior condition to God.

- John-Roger with Paul Kaye
(From: "Ordinariness: A Prior Condition to God & Transcending Fear

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Faith is unseen substance, like air is unseen substance. We can demonstrate the existence of air as a substance by lighting incense and letting it float in the air. What is holding it up? The unseen substance.

We cannot see it, but if we put color in it (the incense smoke), we get to see what the substance is.

The way we see faith is by our actions. Our actions produce the "color" in the faith, and that faith is the platform on which we step forward into nothingness, the future. The glory descends upon us, and we are sustained by the grace of God.

- John-Roger
(From: Fulfilling Your Spiritual Promise, p. 1233)

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Societies will fall many, many times in the evolution of the planet, and governments will come and go; that is the nature of this planet. But the Spirit stays forever. The key is this: reach always into the Spirit for the highest good of all and perceive all situations from that point.

- John-Roger
(From: Timeless Wisdoms, Vol. One, p. 28)

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The sacred scriptures all over the world have a similar message in their texts. The message is, "He wins who endures to the end." That is another way of saying, "Finish. Complete."

The spiritual energy becomes available immediately when the demand for it is placed. It doesn't become available by sitting down and waiting. We must demand of the Spirit -- not with our minds or with our emotions but with the physical movement of the body -- in order to have the spiritual energy supplied to us. That's one of the prime reasons we have a physical body.

- John-Roger with Paul Kaye
(From: The Rest of Your Life, p. 209)