Saturday 4 November 2017

What God Said by Neale Donald Walsch






All quotes from Neale's book



Faith is not about wondering whether something will occur, or thinking it could happen, it is about feeling sure that it will happen.  This is a quantum leap from wishing.


When engaging specifically in the process of personal creation… try to consciously invoke the energy of “I know”, giving yourself permission to become less and less requiring of particular outcomes and more and more relaxed around whatever outcomes may occur.


Folks believe that if they “have” a thing (more time, money, love – whatever), then they can finally “do” a thing (write a book, take up a hobby, go on vacation, buy a home, enter a relationship), thus allowing them to “be” a thing (happy, peaceful, content, or in love).


First you must “be” the thing called “happy” (or “peaceful”, or “content”, or “in love”, or whatever), then you start “doing” things from this place of beingness --- and soon you discover that what you are doing winds up bringing you the things you’ve always wanted to “have”.


The way to set [the] creative process… into motion is to look at what it is you want to “have”, ask yourself what you think you would “be” if you “had” that, then go right straight to being.  Start there, rather than trying to get there.


How life works for you is very much a matter of what and how you are being.


It turns out that deciding ahead of time what you choose to be can often produce that in your experience.


Be who you really are…. It is a case of knowing that you are the source of these things, not the seeker of them.


Causing another to experience what you wish to experience makes you aware that you are the source, and not the seeker, of the experience…. Instead of trying to find what you want, you try to find ways to give away what you want.


If something occurs in your life that is unexpected, stop for just a moment and ask yourself, “How do I want to “be” with regard to this?” Then, step into the State of Being.


Life was designed as a process of creation, not a process of reaction.


The Universe cannot give you what you say it cannot.


Your energy either creates obstacles or opportunities.  You get to choose.


Life is meant to be happy, and most of the time there really should be no reason for it to be otherwise.


To live as whole human beings, to bring an end to the ongoing expression of our fractured selves, we would benefit as a species from working more diligently on what might seem to be a relatively simple task:  Just. Tell. The. Truth.


Unless we are willing to take full and complete, absolute and total responsibility for everything in our lives and for the experiences that we may have stimulated others to create in their lives, we cannot live a holistic life.  We can pretend to, we can act as if we are, but we cannot actually do it.  We must accept the fact that we are at cause in the matter of our lives.



All people are special, and all moments are golden.  There is no person and there is no time one more special than another.


Discomfort is nothing more than an announcement that healing is about to take place.


Always, breakthrough occurs when breakdown threatens.


Your life has nothing to do with you.  It is about everyone whose life you touch, and how you touch it.


Understanding replaces the need for forgiveness.


The only reason you would call anything “unforgivable” is that you don’t understand how anyone could do such a thing.


When we understand why the robber robs, why the terrorist terrorizes, why the killer kills, we then take a giant step toward the place where Divinity dwells.


What of our spiritual journey?  Are we seeking to create the experience of Divinity in, through, and as us, or as we merely trying to make it from birth to death with the least amount of offense to God?


Life has no intention of ending.  Ever.  Therefore, when any expression or form of life is threatened, it immediately adapts itself, thus rendering its expression sustainable once again.


Our opportunity here is to become a conscious (rather than an unconscious) part of the formula before actively and intentionally creating functionality, adaptability, and sustainability, rather than simply witnessing the playing out of this formula without our intervention or participation of any kind.  All intelligent, highly evolved species understand this perfectly.


Decide to pray, decide to meditate, decide to shift your ground of being at every level, to expand your spiritual experience and your spiritual expression…. In all of this, pay attention to what you’re doing, pay attention to what we’re being, pay attention to what you’re having in these days and times of your life.


The idea of Deity is something we have to appease in order to keep It on our side as a primitive notion arising out of the earliest thought of the earliest human beings on the planet:  that God is just like us, and since we need to be appeased in order to find another pleasing, so must God.


Death does not exist.  What you call “death” is merely a process of Re-Identification.


Life functions within a Be-Do-Have paradigm.  Most people have this backward.  Imagining that first one must “have” things in order to “do” things, thus to “be” what they wish to be.  Reversing the process is the fastest way to experience mastery in living.


Let there be a New Gospel for all the people of Earth: “We are all one.  Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way".


What is needed now on Earth is a Civil Rights Movement of the soul, freeing humanity at last from oppression of its belief in a violent, angry, and vindictive God, and releasing our species from a spiritual doctrine that has created nothing but separation, fear, and dysfunction around the world.


Nothing blocks the creation and sustaining the peace in our world more than thoughts of superiority – especially if they are accompanied by righteousness.


It is so sad that we don’t even notice that we are creating the polarity ourselves, with our righteousness.


Remember, feelings are not a point of view.


Only when we are open to all ideas are all possibilities open to us.


What we call “hot” and what we call “cold” are not the “opposite” of each other --- that is, they are not two different things – but merely degrees of the Same Thing, which is something we call temperature.  In exactly the same way, God is the One Thing that Is --- expresses itself in varying degrees by dividing Itself into parts that are smaller than the whole.



All of us live not only many lifetimes (a process that is often referred to as reincarnation) , but we can also live the lifetime we are now experiencing more than once.