Search the Loving Each Day Quotes

If someone doesn't do what you ask or expect, you can use that as a stepping-stone into patience and cooperation, and you can appreciate that someone else's "my way" may be as good as your way. If you do that, you are taking another powerful step toward success within yourself and in this world.

Often the glamour of the world, the distraction of the personality, takes you far away from where the Lord lives inside of you. Therefore, we have a very wonderful task in front of us, and that task is to place in us the remembrance of the moments of communion, where the most sacred communion takes place. Where we tell God that in us we have a sanctuary for the most high, for the most wonderful things and that we will constantly cleanse it. We will cleanse all the children of darkness from it -- the habits of our personality that no longer serve us. We'll cleanse the excess of materiality from us, so that we only have that which we can use. It frees us then from those attachments to this world that would block us from eating and drinking of the love and the Light, and especially of the Sound -- that unspoken word of God.

Your job is to experience. That's all you have to do. It is in the loving of your experience, the loving of your expression, that you discover the inner joy, the bliss that is your indication of the presence of the Traveler.

Love God with all your heart. Love yourself with the same devotion. Love all who come to you as you love God. - John-Roger (From: Loving Each Day, Vol. 1, p. 130)

When we can accept ourselves, we can accept others. But we often try to make everyone else in our image, and if they're not like us, we say there is something wrong with them. It's a game that we play with each other -- who is going to be the boss? I think we would find it much easier to accept one another if we didn't feel the need to control.

Remember, God is an unlimited source of greater good. Often enough, as God's partner, the responsibility is upon each of us to place the intention forward to the as yet unmanifest for what can become manifest into the world through the grace of God.

We have to communicate with ourselves effectively. That means putting in motion, inside of us, that communication, where for each thought, we get a feeling that matches, and we can move on it physically. Or if we get a feeling, we get a thought that matches and we can complete it physically. If we can't complete it physically, we just hold it aside. - John-Roger

If you haven't yet accepted your humanity, with all the magnificence and folly inherent in that, now might be a good time to start.

Q: Can any one individual Soul return to God when it is ready, or do we all have to wait until all Souls are ready, so all Souls return together? If we are all one, can any individual return without the others returning as well? A: An individual Soul can return to God when it is ready, but the whole (rather gigantic) action won't be complete until all Souls return to God. The Soul has no problem with this. Its perspective is that it is getting experiences, and it does not perceive itself as separate from God, so there is not the anguish of separation that the personality and ego can sometimes feel.

Generally, people who refuse a genuine, loving hug have the war inside of themselves. They also need love more than other people. If you can't tell who needs what, leave them all alone, or hug them all. And you don't always have to hug a person physically. A few years ago I was walking with a friend of mine, and he said to me, "I am hugging everyone inside of me." That's the way it works best. We walked into a store together, and although it was very busy, the employees went out of their way to help him. He was amazed because normally the employees weren't that helpful. I wasn't surprised at all. When you are hugging somebody inside, they want to help you. You hug them with your eyes, with your inner radiance. You don't have to even smile. The loving, the radiance of the heart, comes up out of you and it smiles.