Neale Donald Walsch Quotes
You can choose to acknowledge that some of your old beliefs about God and about Life are no longer working.
That's the problem with truth. The truth is relentless. It won't leave you alone. It keeps creeping up on you from every side, showing you what's really so. That can he annoying.
The patriarchal model of spirituality was, I think, a necessary step, as a baby learns to crawl before it walks.
I don't want to pretend to tell that I always feel the presence of God because I don't. My consciousness is very often closed to that feeling - most of the time.
I feel God when I find myself in a situation which spontaneously opens me to the larger reality that exists all around.
I grew up as a Roman Catholic, and as a very young boy I felt the presence of divinity in my life through the experiences that I had in connection with the Catholic church.
I think we close our psychic field so that we can protect ourselves from the vast and unpredictable energies of the universe.
I think the Westerner approaches his path through his mind. I think the Easterner approaches, largely, although not exclusively, his path through his heart.
None of the systems we have created are producing the outcomes that were intended. They're actually producing exactly the opposite.
I think Easterners have to be dragged kicking and screaming to their mind about God, and I think Westerners have to be dragged kicking and screaming to their heart center about God.
It is demonstrable and observable that our morals are based on our earliest spiritual beliefs. Matters of the Mind in no small measure have reflected matters of the Soul.
You know that the formula is askew when even if the formula is working, it's not; when even if everything's going right, something is wrong.
When even those who should be happy by any reasonable measure are also not happy, there's got to be a serious systemic problem in humanity's culture.
We crave, we deeply yearn for, release from the limitations of a dogma that declares separation, disunity, and judgment to be the essential condition of life.
I think God is the creative force of the universe. I think it is the raw material from which life emerges.
The problem is, most people don't like to hear suggestions that directly confront or run counter to their most sacred beliefs.
What is needed today is for all of us to work to change the world's mind about God.
Virtually all of the civil laws in all of the world's societies are based on what humanity, in the earliest days, believed to be God's Law.
The problem with a Separation Theology is that it produces a Separation Cosmology, a way of looking at all of life that says that everything is separate from everything else.
A Separation Cosmology produces a Separation Psychology, a psychological viewpoint that says that I am over here and you are over there.
The soul has come to the physical realm to have a direct experience of itself as an "individuation of divinity."
We have taken a physical identity so that we may express our divine identity. And every moment in our life provides us with an opportunity to do that.
The problems facing humanity today are spiritual problems, and they can only be solved by taking a long, hard look at what it is we all believe.
We are caught in a trap, a cycle, in which we keep trying to solve the world's problems at every level - except the level at which the problems exist.
The reason people don't know what is good for them is because most people don't know what they are trying to do.
Thought is creative - Fear attracts like energy - Love is all there is.
Father, help me never to place judgment upon another and then only upon the merit therein.
A five-word sentence that could change the world tomorrow is "What would love do now?"