Loving Each Day

[caressa]

In Genesis, the first book of the Bible, God declares with each progressive day of creation, "It was good" (Genesis 1). There is a divine authority placed within each of us to claim the blessings through our trust and faith in the intrinsic good in everything.

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

[caressa]

There is a master force, or dream master, from the spiritual realms who works with the students of MSIA. One of the reasons the dream state becomes so valuable spiritually is because, through the action of this dream master, you are allowed to balance actions in the dream state instead of on the physical level. How would you like to live through those nightmares in an awake state? Through this special action, many negative actions (like car wrecks, accidents, or other dangerous or threatening situations, etc.) have been bypassed in the physical, and completed on another realm through the dream process.

In the dream state, the dream master will show you the illusions of the dream worlds. He will show you which action is illusion and which is reality. Your learning and your progression can be so much faster when you don't have to find all these things out for yourself.

- John-Roger
(From: Dream Voyages, p. 48-49)

Don't always remember my dreams. The social worker at the YWCA who helped me get into recovery use to say, "It isn't what you dream so much as the feeling you have as a result of the dream or your feeling in the dream itself. I have found that dreams have often been my subconsious self trying to make itself known.

[caressa]

When you turn inside of yourself and consciously, purposefully, and directly reach for those things that enhance the Spirit within, you experience the strength of the Soul coming up inside of you.

You experience a joy that has nothing to do with this level.

You know an integrity within you that lifts you up and steady strength that sustains you through all things.

That prepares a place for the Christ Consciousness to enter. You create a form into which the Beloved may come.

- John-Roger
(From: Timeless Wisdoms, Vol. One, p. 23-24)

[caressa]

Living in grace is closely related to where you are focusing your awareness, your attention. If you practice focusing your awareness, in your mind, on the divine being that you are, you can see it or sense it as a beautiful picture. But it is not necessarily a picture you have to hold. It is an attitude.

The attitude is formed, practiced, and incorporated into behavior. Then the body mechanism takes over and incorporates it as a habit. When this happens, you can start to walk through life not even knowing that you are happy until people say, "My, you look happy!" You may think, "I'm happy because I haven't had any of these other things that used to bother me."

What other things? If you look, you may still be able to see them, but they simply do not bother you any more. Why? Because you do not focus on them.

- John-Roger
(From: Fulfilling Your Spiritual Promise, p. 1229, 1231)

[caressa]

Slowly, more and more people are refusing to let what is less than who they are run their lives.

As they discover who they truly are, their lives take on new meaning, and they know from experience that love and joy are their natural and divine heritage.

- John-Roger with Paul Kaye
(From: The Rest of Your Life, p. 171)

[caressa]

Loving is a very neutral state. It's "I love you if you're good, I love you if you're bad, I love you if you're not doing either one of those."

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

Not sure what it means by neutral. The quotes are negative and conditional. Love is unconditional and positive. I might not like a behavior; that doesn't mean I don't love the person.

[caressa]

Even if you do not recognize that divine presence right now, it is present.

The blessings are available here and now. Each of us can partake and share in them. It may simply be a matter of catching up by doing your part to manifest greater good in some way.

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

[caressa]

As long as you say, "The maggots and worms can have this place -- I hate it," you will be coming back again and again and again. That which you fear (hate) will come upon you.

That which is your weakness will be thrust upon you so that you can learn to handle it. If you're afraid of the Internal Revenue Service, they're going to audit you. Let them do it. The second time it won't be as bad. The third time you'll know what to do, the fourth time you'll be an old hand at it and then maybe they'll never come back the fifth. You'll be free anyway because by that time, it won't make any difference one way or the other.

- John-Roger
(From: The Way Out Book, p. 204)

[caressa]

It is redundant to say you are free in your Soul because the Soul, by its very nature, is free.

But to be aware of the Soul and that divine freedom may not always be easy. The mind (God bless it) is an eternal obstacle that can stand between us and Soul consciousness. As part of universal mind, it is part of the world of illusion and the negative realms.

- John-Roger
(From: "John-Roger on the Spiritual Promise -- Part II

[caressa]

I perceive grace in the experiences of my life, the wisdoms that have come forward about what to do and what not to do. Then I have the trust that I can learn from my experiences, and that allows me to step onto the path of faith. Some people call it luck, some call it intuition, and I have very little problem with what anyone wants to call it. You can call it a lot of names, and if you do not step onto it, you have called it nothing.

But if you surrender to the truth of grace that already exists within you, you will be in alignment with all things holy.

- John-Roger
(From: Fulfilling Your Spiritual Promise, p. 1231)

[caressa]

And when you are an initiate of the Traveler and are working closely and consciously with Spirit, there is no need to ask for anything beyond whatever is for your highest good for your next level of unfoldment.

All things are already being brought to you to lift you, to purify you, to prepare you to receive the keys of God's kingdom.

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

[caressa]

Because energy follows thought, my advice has always been to hold thoughts that uplift you. Hold images in your mind that you want more of.

Be careful what you ask for because if you get it, you also get what goes with it -- which is fine if, when it does come your way, you are prepared to handle it to completion.

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

[majestyjo]

I teach unconditional loving. Within that, there is acceptance for all spiritual paths and expressions. Each person is going through the experiences that they need in order to grow and to complete lessons in this lifetime. There is also the potential for each of us to move into the Soul, into that which we truly are, and to live life from that level in joy and fullness.

- John-Roger, D.S.S.
(From: Fulfilling Your Spiritual Promise, p. 459)

[majestyjo]

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