{"id":110032,"date":"2020-07-24T18:14:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T01:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/?p=110032"},"modified":"2020-07-24T18:23:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T01:23:40","slug":"john-roger-speaks-about-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/110032-john-roger-speaks-about-charity","title":{"rendered":"John-Roger Speaks About Charity"},"content":{"rendered":" \"We talk of Spirit and spiritual law, of acceptance, cooperation, understanding, and enthusiasm.\u00a0 But what value are all of these if there is no charity?\u00a0 Charity is the key note that allows us to function here.\"<\/em>- John-Roger \n
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This article by John-Roger was first published in the Movement Newspaper, September 1976.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1976, the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness [MSIA] held a Conference of Charity in San Gabriel, California.\u00a0 Members of the Movement attended the Conference from Australia, England, Mexico, New York, Minnesota, Florida, Louisiana, and even El Monte, California.\u00a0 The theme was Charity — as expressed by John-Roger.\u00a0 The feeling was love.\u00a0 The feeling was joy.\u00a0 The feelings of a thousand members of MSIA were of One.\u00a0 A moment shared in San Gabriel that has no beginning or end.<\/em><\/p>\n

The following is an excerpt from the talk given at the Conference by John-Roger.<\/p>\n

Conference of Charity–J-R Speaks<\/h4>\n

The concept of charity has often been defined as giving to the poor, but I’ve never really bought that idea.\u00a0 The concept that I buy is the one that says charity begins at home.\u00a0 I see it as that process of taking care of yourself so that you are not a burden on your family or your society.\u00a0 Charity is doing your work so well that people around you don’t have to come and re-do what you have done.\u00a0 Charity is handling your level of agreement and responsibility so well that people will say, “I’m glad you were here.\u00a0 I’m glad you participated in my life.”<\/p>\n

There are two actions involved in the concept of charity: an inner action and an outer action.\u00a0 The inner action is one of balance and the flow of love within.\u00a0 It is awfully hard to give when you are in a state of remorse or resentment or anger.\u00a0 The only way you can truly give is when you are in a state of joy, of creativity, of inner abundance.\u00a0 And that only comes about when you exercise your spiritual gifts, your gifts of love. \u00a0When you just breathe that divine love in, then you feel the currents of God within your own beingness; you feel the joy and the blissfulness of Soul.\u00a0 In that moment, you could probably be fleeced by the most simple-minded con man in the whole world — and love it.\u00a0 Because when you are centered in Divine Love, there is no way you can be stripped of your joy.\u00a0 And when you have joy is when you can give it.\u00a0 And that’s when you can again receive it.<\/p>\n

Charity is both the process of giving and the process of receiving.\u00a0 What value is it to give a gift to someone if they can’t receive it?\u00a0 Their taking is extending the charity back to you.\u00a0 This consciousness of charity has never been one-way.\u00a0 It takes two; it takes both the giver and the receiver.\u00a0 When you give back to the giver, it makes you both feel good.\u00a0 It often takes a great, great deal of smoothness and tact to receive a gift from someone without embarrassing them or putting them on the spot.\u00a0 Some people have a hard time receiving.\u00a0 I remember years ago, when people would give things to me, and I would say: “No, thank you,\u201d thinking how spiritual I was, refusing to take anything from them — just giving of my joy and my love.\u00a0 And yet, I would go to give them love, and there was no place for them to receive it because they felt rejected.\u00a0 They were experiencing a form of resentment because I hadn’t let them give to me what they had to give.\u00a0 They felt almost like they weren’t worthy enough to give to me.\u00a0 That was never a part of my consciousness, but that was the way it came across.\u00a0 By refusing their gifts, I shut off the flow and then they could not receive what I had to give.\u00a0 So now, I accept even the tiniest present.\u00a0 I receive with an open heart.\u00a0 And then the flow is there, and it is so easy for me to give love back to them, and so easy for them to receive the love because they feel good about the whole action.\u00a0 It’s balanced.\u00a0 And it then becomes a deeper experience than just giving and receiving.\u00a0 It becomes a sharing.<\/p>\n

When you give of your ability, your joy, your spiritual gifts, and your creativity, other people coming behind you (whom you may not even know) will be able to partake of the spiritual blessings that you extend to everyone who can partake of them.\u00a0 We talk of Spirit and spiritual law, of acceptance, cooperation, understanding, and enthusiasm.\u00a0 But what value are all of these if there is no charity?\u00a0 Charity is the key note that allows us to function here.\u00a0 You know that you must first accept yourself before you can accept others.\u00a0 And you must first cooperate with yourself before you can cooperate with others.\u00a0 So, also, must you first give charity to yourself.\u00a0 See the creative energy that is inside of you.\u00a0 That’s the Spirit of God inside.\u00a0 That’s the primordial thrust of spiritual energy.\u00a0 Its form is unto itself.\u00a0 And it is that essence, of Spirit, of God, of Love, that is within and activates all forms.\u00a0 You have to look past many, many illusions of the lower worlds.\u00a0 You have to look past the illusions of the physical forms, the emotions, the mind and the subconscious levels.\u00a0 You have to have charity towards those levels.\u00a0 You have to look past them.\u00a0 You don’t say to someone, “I just can’t stand seeing you; get out of my way.\u201d\u00a0 You realize that on the path they are traveling, they need your understanding.\u00a0 They need your love.<\/p>\n

Sometimes it seems easy to give love in a general sense, to a large group.\u00a0 But it can be more difficult to share love in a one-to-one relationship with your spouse, your boss, or your children.\u00a0 Then comes the trials and tribulations of, “Do I give love or do I give animosity and resentment?\u00a0 Am I too tired to put energy into this relationship any longer?\u00a0 Why don’t they love me better?\u201d\u00a0 Love is of little value if you don’t have charity.\u00a0 You give.\u00a0 You give.\u00a0 You give.\u00a0 And then you give more.\u00a0 It is not man’s nature to give, but it is the HUman’s, the spiritual man’s, nature to give.<\/p>\n

In this process of charity, just let your own love be your guide.\u00a0 Let the guiding Light of your own heart show you the way.\u00a0 Your mind won’t be able to.\u00a0 Your emotions won’t be able to.\u00a0 You won’t find charity in the mind or in the emotions or in the physical body.\u00a0 Charity is of the Spirit.\u00a0 You can give of the Spirit through many forms.\u00a0 You can rub a back, give a massage, see a doctor, wash the dishes, or take a day off work to spend with the kids.\u00a0 Whatever you give, give freely, expecting nothing in return.\u00a0 Give it all so if someone else doesn’t give, you have given 100 percent, enough for both of you, and it is complete.\u00a0 That’s what makes it work.<\/p>\n

There is something so transcendental in the process of charity.\u00a0 It is your very Beingness that speaks.\u00a0 Charity does not necessarily express through the lower levels of consciousness, but reflects that love that is the very essence behind all creation.\u00a0 There is nowhere that it is not.\u00a0 Its very form is that of giving, and it doesn’t ask anything of you in return.\u00a0 God has never approached you and said, “Give me that,\u201d\u00a0 but has laid out examples and guidelines that we call disciplines — the disciplines that bring you into greater strength and set you free.<\/p>\n

The outer form of charity is very simple.\u00a0 It is just to express your joy outwardly.\u00a0 That outward expression may come from the mind as good thoughts, or from the emotions as happiness, or from the physical as financial support, money, sustenance.\u00a0 Charity is multidimensional.\u00a0 To express it outwardly, you may have to exercise your creativity.\u00a0 It takes great sensitivity and great gentleness to give into the heart of another without abusing them or making them feel less than the form of spiritual love that they are.\u00a0 Many times people are caught short in a lot of areas of life.\u00a0 They may say, “If I just had another gallon of gas\u201d\u00a0 or “If I just had the money to pay the rent this month\u201d\u00a0 or “If I just had a million dollars.\u201d\u00a0 Well, charity is different for different people.\u00a0 People’s needs are different and their expressions are different.\u00a0 When someone shares with you or gives to you just what you need, in that moment you feel that love and that thankfulness flow through you.\u00a0 And you want to do something in return.\u00a0 If you can’t return that blessing to the one who gave it — give it to someone else.\u00a0 The process of giving to someone what has been given to you is also charity.<\/p>\n

There is also the charity of giving to a stranger — just because he asks.\u00a0 If someone comes up to you and asks for bus fare home, you can help — not by asking him how much it is — but by giving him more than enough money and just saying, “God bless you.\u201d\u00a0 You’ll both feel good.<\/p>\n

When you allow the love to flow freely and to express through you, in charity towards yourself and towards all others, you will come closer and closer to that pure essence of the Spirit within you.\u00a0 As you prepare the planet for your children and for their children, and even for those who will be here three or four hundred years from now, you are exercising an even greater form of charity.\u00a0 But charity can never be anything other than itself because there is only God.\u00a0 And God gives only to Itself.\u00a0 And when you enter into the consciousness of the Traveler, you will begin to see that form in everything and everyone you meet.\u00a0 And though it manifests differently for everyone, you will perceive the oneness that sustains behind the differences.\u00a0 And that oneness is charity, is love, is the essence of God.\u00a0 It is your own true Beingness.\u00a0 And the day you awaken to that realization of Self will be one of the most joyful days you will ever experience.<\/p>\n

Baruch Bashan (The Blessings Already Are).<\/p>\n

JOHN-ROGER ON GIVING AND RECEIVING — FROM THE HEAVEN ON EARTH TOUR<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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