Conversations with God, An Uncommon Dialogue: Living in the World with Honesty, Courage, and Love - Volume 1

by Neale Donald Walsch

It is because of what words are. Words are merely utterances: noises that stand for feelings, thoughts, and experience. They are symbols. Signs. Insignias. They are not Truth. They are not the real thing.

Is this why we struggle with the Words to say?

I cannot tell you My Truth until you stop telling Me yours.

John 3:30

The correct prayer is therefore never a prayer of supplication, but a prayer of gratitude.

Therefore never supplicate. Appreciate.

So my prayer should be Father thank you for allowing our team to succeed. Thank You for keeping us healthy. Thank You for allowing us her another opportunity to glorify you through the sport.

Gratitude cannot be used as a tool with which to manipulate God;

So I have to be co confident and sure in my prayers of gratitude- not trying to make believe something I don’t believe. Truth be told I do that a lot. Why don’t i whole heartedly believe in my prayers? BECAUSE I am afraid that my requests are not according to the will of Jesus, why because my connection to Jesus is not where it needs to be.

Then the prayer is a prayer of thanksgiving. It is not a request at all, but a statement of gratitude for what is so.

Yes, I have understood this all incorrectly

For it is the nature of people to love, then destroy, then love again that which they value most.

But you do not know Who You Are, and you think you are a great deal less. And where did you get the idea of how much less than magnificent you are? From the only people whose word you would take on everything. From your mother and your father.

you do not know Who You Are, and you think you are a great deal less. And where did you get the idea of how much less than magnificent you are? From the only people whose word you would take on everything. From your mother and your father.

Starts in our ability to parent

And so you try to imagine what God’s love must be like, based on what you see of love in the world.

Always have to compare and contrast in an effort to minimize God

And so, All That Is…was not. For in the absence of something else, All That Is, is not.

You don’t know who you are until you have to face what you are

God knew that for love to exist—and to know itself as pure love—its exact opposite had to exist as well. So God voluntarily created the great polarity—

the absolute opposite of love—everything that love is not—what is now called fear.

This mythology has been mankind’s early attempt to understand, and tell others in a way they could understand, a cosmic occurrence of which the human soul is deeply aware, but of which the mind can barely conceive.

This is what your religions mean when they say that you were created in the “image and likeness of God.” This doesn’t mean, as some have suggested, that our physical bodies look alike (although God can adopt whatever physical form God chooses for a particular purpose).

This has a greater meaning/understanding to me now.

My purpose in creating you, My spiritual offspring, was for Me to know Myself as God. I have no way to do that save through you. Thus it can be said (and has been, many times) that My purpose for you is that you should know yourself as Me.

This is why we are always searching for that peace/understanding?

God the Father is knowing—the parent of all understandings, the begetter of all experience, for you cannot experience that which you do not know. God the Son is experiencing—the embodiment, the acting out, of all that the Father knows of Itself, for you cannot be that which you have not experienced. God the Holy Spirit is being—the disembodiment of all that the Son has experienced of Itself; the simple, exquisite is-ness possible only through the memory of the knowing and experiencing.

And so often we try to force it. We don’t put ourselves in a position to know with out the proper tools

Now it came to pass that this soul yearned and yearned to know itself. And so great was its yearning that I one day said, “Do you know, Little One, what you must do to satisfy this yearning of yours?”

And know that what you do in the time of your greatest trial can be your greatest triumph. For the experience you create is a statement of Who You Are—and Who You Want to Be.

Is it possible to think about this right in the midst of it all?

So long as you entertain the notion that there is something or someone else out there “doing it” to you, you disempower yourself to do anything about it. Only when you say “I did this” can you find the power to change it.

By removing any personal attachment we can hate it

Seek then to create change not because a thing is wrong, but because it no longer makes an accurate statement of Who You Are.

A great way to look at things as we evolve in life

you wish to be accurately re-presented, you must work to change anything in your life which does not fit into the picture of you that you wish to project into eternity.

Nothing is painful in and of itself. Pain is a result of wrong thought. It is an error in thinking.

Pain results from a judgment you have made about a thing. Remove the judgment and the pain disappears.

Should I therefore punish you for making a choice that I Myself have laid before you? If I did not want you to make the second choice, why would I create other than the first?

That in itself is confusing

If you do not go within, you go without.

Always going

I will do nothing for you that you will not do for your Self.

The First Law is that you can be, do, and have whatever you can imagine. The Second Law is that you attract what you fear.

As I said earlier, that’s part of the problem. People have a sense of God as “showing up” in only one form.

Begin at once to imagine it the way you want it to be—and move into that. Check every thought, word, and action that does not fall into harmony with that. Move away from those.

The most difficult thing for people to do is hear their own soul. (Notice that so few do.)

This is what Jesus did. It is the path of the Buddha, the way of Krishna, the walk of every Master who has appeared on the planet. And every Master has likewise had the same message: What I am, you are. What I can do, you can do. These things, and more, shall you also do. Yet you have not listened. You have chosen instead the far more difficult path of one who thinks he is the devil, one who imagines he is evil. You say it is difficult to walk the path of Christ, to follow the teachings of the Buddha, to hold the light of Krishna, to be a Master. Yet I tell you this: it is far more difficult to deny Who You Are than to accept it.

Maybe because we don’t like who we are?

The irony is that most people think they have to leave where they are to get to where they want to be. And so they leave heaven in order to get to heaven—and go through hell.

What you resist persists. What you look at disappears.

Have I not told you all thought is creative?

Your Life proceeds out of your intentions for it.

They sit around trying to figure out how anyone could actually love them. So they don’t believe you, and embark on a campaign to make you prove it.

This is the message you have not been able to hear; this is the truth you have not been able to accept. And that is why you can never truly, purely, fall in love with another. You have never truly, purely fallen in love with your Self.

life is not a process of discovery, life is a process of creation).

There are times when you may have to give up Who You Are in order to be Who You Are.

the purpose of your relationship is to create an opportunity, not an obligation—an opportunity for growth, for full Self expression, for lifting your lives to their highest potential, for healing every false thought or small idea you ever had about you, and for ultimate reunion with God through the communion of your two souls—if you take that vow instead of the vows you’ve been taking—the relationship has begun on a very good note.

Remember, in our relationship you have no obligation. Only opportunity.

Interesting way of looking at things. This is a growth mindset which allows room to breath

Most of you are not interested in such important work. Most of you would rather leave that to others. And so most of you are not self-created, but creatures of habit—other-created creatures. Then, when others have told you how you should feel, and it runs directly counter to how you do feel—you experience a deep inner conflict. Something deep inside you tells you that what others have told you is not Who You Are. Now where to go with that? What to do?

But why won’t we communicate how we feel?

Approvals and demonstrations seldom accompany inner decisions.

Less pain without more wisdom defeats your purpose; does not allow you

to experience infinite joy—which is What I Am.

Embarrassment is the response of a person who still has an ego investment in how others see him.

I like this

My joy is in your freedom, not your compliance.

you want to change a root thought, you have to act before you think.

Doing is a function of the body. Being is a function of the soul.