Loving Each Day, from the Angels forum

[Summer]

It's best not to judge; you hold yourself back if you say,
"Oh, look at those deadbeats; they're no good."

You can hold the Light for them, educate them if they are
open to it, and let them see the reality of their action.
You can show them that they can go inside and get their
spiritual fulfillment without taking a drug. You place the
Light with them in loving neutrality.

Someday, when they weaken for just a moment and say, "Oh
God, I need help," the Light will flood them. They will
realize their spiritual promise and their spiritual heritage
as children of Light.

- John-Roger with Michael McBay, M.D.
(From: Spiritual High: Alternatives to Drugs and Substance
Abuse, p. 88-89)

[Summer]

Often when we don't do what we know to do, it's because
we're too close to the problem to see it clearly. We need to
take a few steps back - or up. The phrases I use to remind
myself of this are, "Get some distance on the situation,"
and "Get some altitude."

Astronauts who have gone into orbit report having had a
transformational experience when they looked back at Earth.
Gazing at our beautiful planet, with its aquamarine seas and
with white clouds floating around it, they saw perfect
harmony.

Imagine for a moment that it's ten or twenty or thirty years
ago, and one of those astronauts is circling the planet in
his spacecraft, awed by the beauty and harmony he's seeing.
He focuses his telescope on your country, then zooms in on
your city, your street, and finally, your house. There you
are, alone in your bedroom, bawling your eyes out over an
immense tragedy - your girlfriend (or boyfriend) turned down
your invitation to the prom. Which view of the world is
"correct" in that moment: the perfect order and harmony the
astronaut is seeing - or the chaos and tragedy in your life?


Neither view is right or wrong in itself. Which one is
"correct" is a matter of perspective; it depends on where
you are. So it goes with most things in life.

- John-Roger with Paul Kaye
(From: Momentum, Letting Love Lead - Simple Practices for
Spiritual Living, p. 40-41)

[Summer]

If you focus on the negative long enough, you may fall into
despair. If you do find yourself in the pits of despair, you
don't have to remain there just because you may have been
taught that is your fate.

Now that you're an adult, how about taking a light with you?
The Light of awareness, the Light of God, the Light that
illuminates the traps so you don't have to fall into them.
Is it that simple? It could be.

It's a matter of what you focus on, like seeing a glass of
water half-full or half-empty. Where is your focus?

- John-Roger
(From: Wealth & Higher Consciousness, p. 34)

[Pledm]

Hi Deb,
Its some uplifting posts but still sometimes its not enough,I`m dealing with some problems with my mom and I`m the only one, my so-called sister is long gone,I am usually,,,,,I wish I was that astronaut looking down on the earth,looking in all its beauty because right now my place on earth isn`t looking/feeling pleasant.One can wish,,,and I do.

[Summer]

Yeah, I understand getting to the point where it seems that a change for the better is seeming like it is never going to come. But the one thing that we know for sure about life is that there is always change. It might take a while, but things just have a way of changing.

Now, just remind me of what I just said to you when I get down in the dumps, K? Isn't that what friends are for?

[Summer]

Here is the guarantee. There is always good to be found no
matter what.

So if we perceive there is no good, like "This is no good,"
that is a lie. That is not true.

It is we who have put ourselves in a position where we are
blind to the good, where we do not hear of it, where we no
longer have the eyes to see or the ears to hear.

Is that true? No.

We do have the eyes to see. We do have the ears to hear. It
is simply a matter of what ears and eyes are we listening
to. What ears and eyes are we looking through? Always see
and listen through love and truth.

- 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

[Pledm]

Hi deb,
Thanks for the support and encouragement it means alot,like they say `This will pass`,,again thank-you.

[Summer]

Your welcome, Pledm.

[Summer]

All things are of God. Each one of us is a child of God.
There is no one outside of God. We each carry a divine spark
of energy, the Soul, which is a direct extension of God. How
we relate to the Soul, how we express the Soul, how we
embrace it or ignore it are our personal choices. There is
no right or wrong way to do this. There is no better or
worse way to do this. There are many, many choices, and all
choices have their consequences.

God loves us all, no matter what.

- John-Roger with Pauli Sanderson
(From: When Are You Coming Home? A Personal Guide to Soul
Transcendence, p. 261)



I really believe this last post to be true. I try to remember this in all of my interactions with all other people. It gives me a different perspective, and I find that I am less judgemental. Which is easier for me to be in the long run, because the easier I am on other's, the easier my life is too.

[Summer]

It's important to become aware of what a powerful creator
you are. There is nothing that you put into motion through
your mind and emotions that is not recorded somewhere, and
these creations will often come back to you when you least
want them.

It really pays to be very careful about what you imagine, or
"image in" to your consciousness.

- John-Roger
(From: Dream Voyages, p. 24)

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[Summer]

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)

[Summer]

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)

[Summer]

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

[Summer]

In its purest sense, karma can be defined as "action." And
negative karma can be defined as inability to act. Often it
is your negative karma that is upon you when you don't know
which way to turn or where to go. You say, "Which way do I
go? Do I go here or do I go there? Do I choose this or do I
choose that? I don't know what to do!"

That's your karma. You feel like you should move one way,
but something insides says, "Don't" or "I can't." And you
don't know what to do or which direction to take. You can't
even "cop out" and make a decision by default; your karma
has completely bound you. You're caught. Sometimes you don't
even know it, and that's when ignorance may seem like a
blessing.

- John-Roger
(From: The Way Out Book, p. 91)

[Summer]

Boy, do I understand the last comment! I have been in a karmic situation like this for the past 19 years with a man that I have been living with. Obviously we have some past life karma, or I wouldn't still be here going through the sadness that I go through. Although I have gotten so used to having things less than the way I want them to be, that I never expect them to be the way I want them to be now! Something I need to work on in my own life.