This week look at the areas where you feel tremendous desire and ask yourself, "Do I need that?" If you need that, it is not a desire area, it is not a depression area. That's the difference. If you say, "I need that," and it produces irritation and anxiety, maybe you're not in a need area, maybe you're in a desire area and you can't handle it. Then see what you can do from that point to create positively what you want more of in your life.

-John-Roger, DSS

This week's challenge: don't let your basic self lead you around. If you want to have a fun time, allow your basic self to lead you around, and then you can see the difference." *Note: The basic self is the lowest of the three selves (basic self, conscious self, high self) and has the responsibility for the bodily functions, maintains habits and the psychic centers of the body. It is also known as the lower self.

-John-Roger, DSS

We have a saying in the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness called "etceteras". When we get there and we think we've got it, we say, "etcetera" and that means there is more to come, we're going on. And when you say, "This is it, I've found God," go on because there is no limit in the spiritual realms. There is further and further progression. Do you know what the progression is? Awareness, becoming more aware.

-John-Roger, DSS

Issue yourself a challenge, and let that challenge manifest to you all the time, that from this moment on, this moment of existence ... I will start to find happiness and peacefulness in me. I will call upon the name of God morning, noon, and night. And I will totally dedicate and devote myself to the uplifting of every consciousness who comes by me. Therefore, I will smile inwardly and outwardly. I will not be ashamed of my love. I will demonstrate my love totally. I will just be there and allow everyone else the same space in which to unfold.

-John-Roger, DSS

The challenge this week is to have the wit, the strength, the courage, what ever name you put on it, to look at a false image in your life. And remove it. Then place a true image in its place. The Bible says, "Thou shall have no false gods before me. No graven images. Only God and the Light." We put up false images and worship them, and spend a lot of time with them. Put up a true image, and live it. You're going to lift people around you without saying a word. You're going to smile and say, "God bless you, and I love you, and hey, it's okay, you can do it your way.

-John-Roger, DSS

Here's the fortune cookie challenge: "Do not pass go, do not collect two hundred dollars, go straight into the Soul Realm." This week, let's all go to the Soul Realm.

-John-Roger, DSS

The challenge this week is to see flowers blooming everywhere you go. See beautiful green grass, smell spring in the air, put spring in your step. That's all you need as your goal this week. That's an easy one isn't it? Joy will come in and make itself at home. You will know it because you've raised the banner of happiness. People will come around you and will want to pull your banner down. Raise their banner too. Let them share your love, joy and Light. But do them a favor. Don't force joy on them. Let them reach out and take it.

-John-Roger, DSS

This week's challenge is to expect what you want to take place, no matter what it looks like. Expect what you want to take place, no matter what it looks like, and go after it.

-John-Roger, DSS

A challenge for you this week is to sit down, take some time for yourself, and treat yourself nobly - because you are noble. Ask the Lord for perfect protection. Ask yourself if you were to come back to this existence again, what would be the thing that you have inside of you right now that you would not want to bring back. Then erase that thing out of your life.

-John-Roger, DSS

This week, observe how life flows toward you on all levels, and then write down your awarenesses.If someone comes to you, note that flow, note how life moved toward you. If someone says, "God bless you, I love you," note how that flow comes toward you, and then note how you are flowing with it.If you don't flow with what is coming forward in your life, check that level carefully and then save yourself on that level. In other words, release what you don't need. You will know how.

-John-Roger, DSS

This week, make wise choices. It might be a choice where you did something, or it might be a decision to not do something. Use your wisdom to make choices that support you.

-John-Roger, DSS

Hold the pictures in your mind that you want more of, keeping in mind that which is for your highest good.

-John-Roger, DSS

This week, surrender to your own intelligence rather than to your mind that plays games. Surrender to your intelligence. You can have a beautiful week when you find out that you really are intelligent. You will have to bypass the mind, and move into the intelligence. The intelligence is the Soul.

-John-Roger, DSS

Let's take this week and keep in mind two words, and that will be "patience and gradualness". In that inner rush when you feel like your mind is just being cut up with a jig saw, just say: "Let's just do it a little at a time, let's just take one thing here and finish it. And, we'll take the next one and finish it. And, I'll just finish it one step at a time. I'm not going to rush myself".

-John-Roger, DSS

Accept whatever comes your way; don't grumble against anything that happens to you. If it happens, it happens. Go on about your business. Keep flowing.

-John-Roger, DSS

Our challenge is to take what we've learned and share it. You may have heard the song, "Love is the strangest thing that I know. You keep it around by letting it go." That's why I keep sharing this work with other people. If we don't share what we've learned, if we don't reach out and share our experience with others, then there is very little value in our having participated. What we're dealing with is the overall upliftment of society -- the actual transformation of the planet. That transformation is possible if we are willing to reach out -- if we're willing to communicate, to share, and to touch those people in our lives.

-John-Roger, DSS

You never know all of God's plan, so don't miss any opportunity to tell someone of the love of your beingness and the love of God's beingness. But don't cram it down their throat, or make them feel they don't have love, or that they're not worthwhile. Live in the love of your own beingness and share that with others.

-John-Roger, DSS

If we're going to be living a life of health, wealth, and happiness, and prosperity, loving, caring and sharing, then we must also live a life of forgiveness. Forgive all as the Christ forgives, and go on living the life of enlightenment. What a challenge. What a challenge. But, it is so easy.

-John-Roger, DSS

Realize that your world is inside of you. Radiate your inner Light; build it; let it shine.

-John-Roger, DSS

This is a challenge week. It's observation week -- this week will be a week of observation. Take a good look at your life, and write down what game you find yourself in. Was it a physical game? Was it a sexual game? Was it an emotional game? Was it an intellectual game? Were you hung up on an opinion? Was it an emotional opinion or an intellectual opinion? Did somebody sit on their white horse up in the ivory tower with their degree and say, "Oh, are you all wrong," and you believed it? Write it down. Check it out. Always check it out. Just because somebody says it, does not make it so. It only is so, when it's so inside of you. You don't have to get upset, you don't have to get angry or frustrated, you don't have to think they're right or they're wrong. You don't even have to enter into the game. And that's what really becomes fun.

-John-Roger, DSS

Just because you say something is true or false, does not make it true or false. The thing is, whatever is, is. It's a true thing -- it just is. Here is our challenge for this week. Let us just see things the way they are. If it is, it is.

-John-Roger, DSS

Increase your worth in your consciousness. Become the You that you are. Fulfill your physical level, and let it spill over into the spiritual levels. Don't cheat yourself. Don't hold back. If some happiness comes in, reach out and grab it. If it's there for thirty seconds, use a hundred percent of it. If it's there for two days, use a hundred percent of it. And if it slips out of your hands in twenty minutes, don't think, "Well, maybe I shouldn't have enjoyed it, because now it's gone." It has been slipping away from you all along anyway, so when it's available, increase the happiness towards yourself. If somebody has some joy, unfold it towards you. If they have positive words, and a strong, uplifting feeling, unfold that towards your own life.

-John-Roger, DSS

Let's look at a challenge for this week. This week unfold yourself toward your life. In other words, don't unfold yourself towards somebody else's life, or toward how they want to live yours. Don't let anyone interfere with you unfolding toward your life.

-John-Roger, DSS

I'd like to issue a challenge. When we get down to a problem area and we don't know quite what to do, the challenge will be this: when all else fails, try reading the directions.

-John-Roger, DSS

When something ends, something new is born -- that's the law of this particular realm. So keep looking for new birth and be aware that when something dies, it's making way for something new -- it is a continuous, on-going process. Your challenge this week is to be aware, and as the week goes on, be aware of that which is new to your awareness.

-John-Roger, DSS

The challenge for this week: don't live in other people's opinions. If you discuss a seminar you attended with friends, five people are going to have five different opinions of what occurred. And each one is going to get uniquely, individually, that thing that they had to have. There is something for everyone in any experience. You have to please yourself.

-John-Roger, DSS

Here is a challenge for you: go ahead and do the spiritual exercises*. See if they will work for you; but, you must work it. And when you work it, it's a fantastic thing. *For more information on spiritual exercises, click here

-John-Roger, DSS

You only get negative feedback when you try to possess. You only get negative feedback when your desires get beyond you and you try to possess. If you relax and let things go, you've got it. Really the only time you can possess is when you let go. So the challenge this week is watch what you are trying to possess. If you have the consciousness of "this is mine," it will probably be taken from you. But if you say this, "I am using this until it can be used in a greater way by other people," then you will probably become the greater people that use it the greater way.

-John-Roger, DSS

The challenge this week is to remain relaxed, no matter what comes at you.

-John-Roger, DSS

Some people will mistake the ego for spiritual qualities. These people are going to stumble and fall. Don't violate your consciousness of charity by rejoicing in their mistake. Instead, as a challenge this week, see if you can help people without picking them up. Say, "I am with you, God bless you, I love you, and I can't do it for you." Encourage them to go on and to complete those things that seem difficult to complete. Support them and lift them. See if you can lift them without doing it for them.

-John-Roger, DSS

The challenge for this week is really quite simple: if you don't know, don't pretend to know. It's very nice to keep this thought in mind. If you don't have the answer, don't pretend that you have an answer. It's really quite simple to keep yourself clear. Just say, "I don't know. I can't relate to that. I don't think I understood it. I don't have the answer." This is safe, safe territory.

-John-Roger, DSS

Challenge time: when somebody tries to burden you down with something that's not yours, just go your own way. If you do choose to do the thing, it is your choice how you do it. If you don't want the burden that somebody is putting on you this week, see if you can very cleverly not do it, but, without inflicting upon them. If it is your responsibility, do it so magnificently that it becomes a joy. And if it's not your responsibility, then don't let people place a burden on you.

-John-Roger, DSS

We can have a little challenge this week. This week, wherever you go, leave your pride home; locked up some place where no one can get it. Save it for another day. Watch how great this week goes.

-John-Roger, DSS

If you're smart, if you're wise, and if you're spiritual, the karma that you create, you disperse by the end of the night. If you take a negative thought over to the next morning, you are on the way to building more karma. This is why we say, don't go to bed with things hanging on your head. Get up and write them on a piece of paper and burn it, if you have to. If you could call up a person and say, "Look, I misrepresented myself and I just want to square it," you're further ahead. But watch out, because this thing called pride is going to keep you from doing it. The challenge this week is watch and see where your pride has gone just before you fell.

-John-Roger, DSS

One of our big challenges is to use Spirit efficiently. To use Spirit efficiently, we have to get this machine called the physical body in line and in order, and get our mind clear, so we can receive of higher knowledge.

-John-Roger, DSS

Think back to when you first came into your own movement of spiritual inner awareness. When people talked about love, you thought, "Yeah, that means sex, go to bed and have conjugal relationships." People were talking about love but no one made an overture towards you. For a little while you may have thought perhaps you weren't all that appealing, and so you felt a little rejected. Then it dawned on you that they were talking about love, not sex. And then you found out that they were talking about an intangible process and the challenge came upon you -- to know more about this intangible process that people labeled "love".

-John-Roger, DSS

At some point you will have to sit down and say, "I will do these spiritual exercises, I will do them for a week, 30 minutes a day, I will do it and then I will know. I won't have to doubt or believe, I will know." This is what I say over and over to people to challenge them. I say, "Have you done this?" They say, "Well, no." I say, "I can tell you no more. If you won't sit down to prove me wrong, then don't call me wrong." People say, "Well, I don't know if these spiritual exercises will work," and I say, "OK, next." My knowing for you won't do it, will it? Your knowing for you does it. This week know things, know them, and become more consciously aware.

-John-Roger, DSS

You have a right to declare your personal and impersonal life just because you have a Soul, and because you are a Child of the Light. And you have a right to declare that you are Divine, and that you're a responsible creator. You declare it. Now comes the challenge. Now that you declare it, can you maintain that? If you can, then you have entered into mastership. And if you can't, you've entered into the fool. So be very careful what you are disclaiming, or claiming, to make sure that you can follow through.

-John-Roger, DSS