All mysteries of human experience that are eliminated when we understand that we are a great deal more than our body and when you look very deeply at who and what the soul really is, who and what God really is. Neale Donald Walsch More Quotes by Neale Donald Walsch More Quotes From Neale Donald Walsch When gratitude replaces judgment, peace spreads throughout your body, gentleness embraces your soul, & wisdom fills your mind. Neale Donald Walsch gratitude soul mind All of life is an announcement of who we are. The only question is whether this proclamation will be made by choice or by chance. Neale Donald Walsch who-we-are chance choices Many many people find themselves wondering in their 40s and 50s, is this all there is? Neale Donald Walsch aging wonder people Your life is not about what you are doing. Yet, it is true that what you are doing is often a reflection of what your life is about. Neale Donald Walsch reflection life-is What? You're thinking for yourself? You're deciding on your own? You're applying your own yardsticks, your own judgments, your own values? Who do you think you are, anyway? And, indeed, that is precisely the question you are answering. Neale Donald Walsch religious inspirational thinking The way to reduce the pain which you associate with earthly experiences and events-both yours and those of others-is to change the way you behold them. Neale Donald Walsch pain religious inspirational There are thousands of paths to God and every one gets you there. Neale Donald Walsch path In truth, there is no such thing as a "sinner" for no-one can be sinned against-least of all me. Neale Donald Walsch sinner Your ideas about right and wrong are just that-ideas. They are the thoughts which form the shape and create the substance of Who You Are. There would be only one reason to change any of these; only one purpose in making an alteration: if you are not happy with Who You Are. Neale Donald Walsch religious inspirational ideas Sometimes it's the shortest moments that create the longest impact.' Neale Donald Walsch impact moments sometimes The promise of God is that you are His son. Her offspring. Its likeness. His equal. Ah...here is where you get hung up. You can accept "His son," "offspring," "likeness," but you recoil at being called "His equal." It is too much to accept. Too much bigness, too much wonderment-too much responsibility. For if you are God's equal, that means nothing is being done to you-and all things are created by you. There can be no more victims and no more villains-only outcomes of your thought about a thing. Neale Donald Walsch religious inspirational mean You are therefore in the process of experiencing yourself by creating yourself anew in every single moment. As am I. Through you. Neale Donald Walsch single-mom religious inspirational I recognize thart even you, yourself, will change. Your ideals will change, your tastes will change, your desires will change. Your whole understandings of who you are had better change, because if it doesn't change, you've become a very static personality over a great many years, and nothing would displease me more. And so I recognize that the process of evolution will produce changes in you. Neale Donald Walsch change personality years My child, everything in life is holy. Neale Donald Walsch religious inspirational children I have not said your values are wrong. But neither are they right. They are simply judgments. Assessments. Decisions. For the most part, they are decisions made not by you, but by someone else. Your parents, perhaps. Your religion. Your teachers, historians, politicians. Neale Donald Walsch religious teacher inspirational Is it your thought that I despise some of these, while I love the others? I tell you, I despise nothing. None of it is repulsive to Me. It is life, and life is the gift; the unspeakable treasure; the holy of holies. Neale Donald Walsch treasure religious inspirational There is only one purpose for all of life, and that is for you and all that lives to experience fullest glory...everything else you say, think, or do is attendant to that function. There is nothing else for your soul to do, and nothing else your soul wants to do. Neale Donald Walsch experience soul thinking And the reason is found in the first lie - the lie which you hold as the truth about God - that God cannot be trusted; that God's love cannot be depended upon; that God's acceptance of you is conditional; that the ultimate outcome is thus in doubt. For if you cannot depend on God's love to always be there, on whose love can you depend? If God retreats and withdraws when you do not perform properly, will not mere mortals also? Neale Donald Walsch religious inspirational lying Yet if I told you you are born of God-that you are pure Gods and Goddesses at birth-pure love-you would reject me. Neale Donald Walsch religious love-you inspirational 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. Neale Donald Walsch religious messages inspirational