Loving Each Day, from the Angels forum

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When you find yourself upset or annoyed, stop and take a
breath. Just breathe. Gradually you come present. Then focus
on expanding your consciousness to encompass a bigger
perspective than the one you are seeing. That's a way to get
to compassion. Maybe you try seeing the situation from the
other person's point of view. Think of how they might be
feeling or what they may be dealing with. Maybe you look
ahead in time and ask yourself if the situation will be
important enough to matter in five years - or ten.

You may check to see if your reaction is from your ego and
if your ego is important enough to risk hurting yourself or
another. You can look at the situation impersonally, as if
it were happening to someone else. Or take yourself out of
it and pretend you are seeing from the top of a mountain.

Once you have expanded your consciousness and have seen the
situation from a higher perspective, it's likely you will
begin to experience compassion - for yourself and for
others.

- John-Roger with Pauli Sanderson
(From: When Are You Coming Home? A Personal Guide to Soul
Transcendence, p. 74-75)

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[Summer]

God is always present, here and now, with nowhere to go
because God just is, always, in all ways.

- John-Roger
(From: Wealth & Higher Consciousness, p. 51)

[Summer]

When you do spiritual exercises, you are beginning to deal
with the Soul, another level of consciousness beyond the
mind, body, emotions, and unconscious.

We define the Soul as a dynamic, creative unit of energy,
alive in the truest sense of the word. It is a part of every
person. It never dies, always exists, always is. One aspect
of doing spiritual exercises is becoming aware that you are
a Soul, you are divine, and that as a Soul you are an
extension of God. The Soul is a Divine spark, your
ever-present connection to God.

The other levels of consciousness - your body, mind,
emotions, unconscious, etc. - are not your true essence.
They are vehicles for experiencing and learning.

- John-Roger with Michael McBay, M.D.
(From: Spiritual High: Alternatives to Drugs and Substance
Abuse, p. 80)

[Summer]

You don't have to punish yourself for your mistakes. And,
anyway, you don't know how to punish yourself. If we truly
punished ourselves, we'd be cured of whatever it was. It
would be over and done.

But we punish, and then punish, and then punish, and then
punish. And then we feel guilty, and then we feel guilty
that we felt guilty, and then we feel guilty that we felt
guilty that we felt guilty. Then we punish, and we punish,
and the darn thing goes on and on, and we say, "Why don't I
accomplish anything in my life?"

If you make a mistake, get on with your life and don't waste
time punishing yourself "from here to eternity."

- John-Roger
(From: "From Here to Eternity", on the New Day Herald
website at www.ndh.org/template.php3?ID=5)

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[Summer]

Many people resist going for the abundance of success,
actually doing and saying things to limit themselves. Some
do it because they're afraid of failure. I see people behave
on the basis of, "I don't want success because I'm afraid I
may fail and fall. I'd rather stay here in my limitations
because, at least, I'm familiar with them."

That's like a person staying in a discordant relationship
with someone, arguing and fighting, but staying in it
because, at least, they feel that they know the rules.

But there are other choices than to go into the boxing rings
of life. Rather than take comfort in any familiar
limitations, why not take a wild chance and actually choose
to change?

- John-Roger
(From: Wealth & Higher Consciousness, p. 50)

[Summer]

People would stop me on the street and ask what I did.
People saw a freedom, a clarity, and a simplicity. People
saw the Soul because, in my decision to be my own man, I
chose for my Soul. I allowed the energy of the Soul to come
more into my physical expression. And the Soul in every
person, when it sees the Soul in another, responds and
reaches for that Light, that truth, that radiance.

Life is very simple when all the extraneous elements are
blasted away and all that is left is a simple person, living
simply and focusing on communion with Spirit. There is
nothing more simple. Easy? Not necessarily. But definitely

[Summer]

You do not have to love personalities. People are not their
personalities. You are not your personality.

You know that you are not your mind; it changes too often.
Your emotions go up and down. Your body gets old too fast
and develops all sorts of aches and pains. Then what are
you?

You are living love. You always have been.

Let your loving lead you into awakening and the discovery of
what you already are.

- John-Roger with Paul Kaye
(From: Momentum, Letting Love Lead - Simple Practices for
Spiritual Living, p. 33)

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[Summer]

It can get difficult at times to recognize what is the Light
and what is the dark, what's working and what isn't working.
It's not always clear, and my mind is guessing constantly.

Still, there are practical ways of knowing. The most
practical is to ask, "Is it loving?" And if it's loving,
where is the greatest loving? How can we be involved and be
acting in the greatest loving, in the consciousness of the
highest good of all concerned? That's God's domain: it is
the omniscience of God to know the highest good of all
concerned.

- John Morton
(From: "Choose You This Day" on the New Day Herald website
at www.newdayherald.org/template.php3?ID=570)
"Exploring the Three Selves" class with John Morton on the
Internet - Sunday July 30th, 1:00 p.m. pacific daylight time
at www.msia.org/live

[Summer]

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)

[Summer]

You can build your body so that it does not become a heavy
body, but a light body, so the Spirit can work more closely
with you. When you reach a harmony within you, you can take
cells that have been out of balance and place a ring of love
around them and hold them in balance for five, ten, fifteen
years.

Love and joy and happiness can change the frequency of cell
structure from the "doom and gloom" of a cell disintegrating
to a lilting, joyful quality of a cell lifting into balance
and harmony.

- John-Roger
(From: Living Love from the Spiritual Heart, p. 28-29)

[Summer]

Living love is loving yourself first, so that you can love
others. It's taking care of yourself, so that you can help
take care of others. It's doing those things that are good
for you, so that you'll be happy, healthy, and a joy to be
with.

Love is everywhere when there is loving in you.

- John-Roger
(From: Living Love from the Spiritual Heart, p. 27)

[Summer]

When you look at someone you love very much, you can feel
this beautiful, clear, flowing love. When you know a love
will endure no matter what happens in this physical world,
that love is pure.

When you see parents with very young children or babies, you
often see them sharing the purity of love. Their love is so
uncomplicated, so undemanding, so pure.

That purity is the essence of love. Take that essence and
give it to everyone and everything. Hold back nothing.

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

[Summer]

At some point, you may begin to see that life is not a
win-or-lose situation. It's a learning situation.

Whenever something or someone upsets you, you can always
find a way to use it for your education, upliftment, and
growth.

- John-Roger with Paul Kaye
(From: Momentum, Letting Love Lead - Simple Practices for
Spiritual Living, p. 48)

[Summer]

You test people; you test them all the time. Husbands test
wives; wives test husbands. Children test parents and each
other. It's often a question of, "Do you love me or not?"
Often this is the end result, although it may take a
different form, such as the following conversation:

"I love you."

"Then why did you do that terrible thing?"

"Because I don't love you your way. I love you my way."

"Well, your way isn't too good."

"I'll love you your way if you show me what it is."

"I'm not too sure I know...."

The fact is, we're often not sure if we want to give love.
So sometimes we give love a little bit at a time. It's
called "courting." We court people in many ways. Sometimes
we court them for love, sometimes for a joy, sometimes for
opportunity. But once the goal is accomplished, we tend to
forget about the process of courting, and that's a big
mistake. For instance, after being married, some couples
forget about courting each other. But it's the process of
courting that got you your goal, your spouse, the promotion,
that job and it is the process of courting that will
maintain it. It is that courting process of awareness, of
caring and of giving which will assist you in bringing about
greater spiritual success.

- John-Roger
(From: The Way Out Book, p. 77-78)

[Summer]

When you feel like you can't handle a situation, it's often
because you're afraid to attempt it. And often when you're
afraid to attempt it, it's because you're afraid to make a
mistake. Lean into what seems to be the right action and see
what happens. Check the feeling you get inside. Put the
Light with it.

If it balks at you, let it go. If it seems to be flowing,
flow with it - not with what you think should be taking
place, unless it matches with what is taking place.

Move out of the consciousness of mistakes and into the
consciousness of experiencing.

- John-Roger
(From: The Way Out Book, p. 68-69)