Neale Donald Walsch
As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.Collection: Friendship
The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.'Collection: Sad
I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.Collection: Teacher
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.Collection: Life
Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion.Collection: Religion
God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet.Collection: God
A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.Collection: Chance
I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet.Collection: Friendship
There is a divine purpose behind everything - and therefore a divine presence in everything.
Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow.
I think in metaphysical terms, I would call that increasing the speed of the vibration of life.
The Roman Catholics teach that unless you're a Roman Catholic you do not go to heaven.
It's a very small and select slice of all the people who have ever been born. I believe we've come back during this time, those of us who are here now, specifically to experience it. And to cause a 'quickening of the spirit.'
We've seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive.
The new spirituality will step away from dogma, will step away from 'We're right and you're wrong.'
And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are.
As we move into the 21st century, there's what the Bible calls a 'quickening of the spirit.'
There's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Qur'an, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bible, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bhaghavad Gita, or of the Book of Mormon, or of the other sacred texts of many of those religions.
It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race.
You'll find individuals agreeing on this, but when they get into collective societies and larger groups they find it difficult to achieve group agreement.
I think that's a result of just a general increase in speed of the vibration of life itself.
Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.
If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious.
I think that things happen individually first, and then collectively. It's not the other way around.
The new spirituality will bring about what I'm calling the 'end of better.' And that is in fact what is called for in the next of the series of books that I've been writing.
A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.
I think the new spirituality will be a spirituality that's not based on a particular dogma. And that steps away from the old spiritual paradigm that we have created on this planet, which comes from a thought that there is such a thing as being better.
Beyond the Catholic exclusionary paradigm is a larger one which is the Christian one. Christians claim that if you don't believe in Christ, you can't get to heaven. Well that eliminates two thirds of the world's population!
One either has to believe in a God who's terribly prejudiced, or disbelieve the teachings of such exclusionary theologies. Religions have taught us that 'we are better than they.'
And because we are, somehow, better than they, we get to go to heaven and they don't. Christians will tell you outright that they believe that.
They may not use the word better. But they certainly believe that they'll go to heaven and Jews will not.
It graduates to 'our state is better than your state', and 'our nation is better than your nation.' And it circles all the way around to where it started: 'Our God is better than your God.'
The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'
The new spirituality will also base itself on a third very large spiritual understanding, which is that life is eternal. Most religious people claim to believe that, but very few people actually live as if that were true.
Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.
It'll become obvious that we've really been working against ourselves.
As the new spirituality begins to become the pervasive spirituality of the planet, we'll find that we have abandoned our philosophy of contradictions in which we say we're all one but continue to try to win.
And in which we say that life is eternal but continue to struggle to survive.
The world is starving for a new spiritual truth - a truth that works in sustaining life, not a truth that brings an end to life.
Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. What you believe about Life will be your experience of Life.Collection: Believe
The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be.Collection: Inspirational
So long as you are still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself.Collection: Self Esteem
Life begins now -- right now -- not tomorrow or the next day or the next. Every minute of every hour of every day, life begins anew. That means everything can change in an instant. It also means you can have a new beginning whenever you want.Collection: New Beginnings
Your light is seen, your heart is known, your soul is cherished by more people than you might imagine. If you knew how many others have been touched in wonderful ways by you, you would be astonished. If you knew how many people feel so much for you, you would be shocked. You are far more wonderful than you think you are. Rest with that. Rest easy with that. Breathe again. You are doing fine. More than fine. Better than fine. You’re doin’ great. So relax. And love yourself today.Collection: Love Yourself
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. You won't find glory at the center of safety, but at its edge. You won't find love at a place where you are covered, but in the space where you are exposed. You gotta take some risks. You have to not only pick up the dice, but roll'em. So go ahead, take the gamble. You have nothing to lose except the chance to win. Life is not long enough to spend it on the sidelines.Collection: Winning
The struggle ends when gratitude begins.Collection: Gratitude
Do not wonder why things are "taking so long." In fact, everything is rolling out exactly as it needs to, using not a minute more than Perfection requires. Rest easy and be at peace. Life is working its magic even as you take your very next breath.Collection: Life
Do not limit the shape and size in which your miracle can come. Sometimes the smallest keys turn the biggest locks.Collection: Keys
No effort is ever wasted, although some pay dividends later than you think. Do not imagine that you "wasted your time" because something didn't turn out right. There is no such thing as "waste" in the Universe. Everything - everything - yields benefit. It's true. And your life will show you this. So don't decry the "effort that failed." All things lead to your highest good. You just may not know it yet.Collection: Thinking
It is okay to be at a place of struggle. Struggle is just another word for growth. Even the most evolved beings find themselves in a place of struggle now and then. In fact, struggle is a sure sign to them that they are expanding; it is their indication of real and important progress. The only one who doesn't struggle is the one who doesn't grow. So if you are struggling right now, see it as a terrific sign - celebrate your struggle.Collection: Life