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 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. Neale Donald Walsch consciousness want feelings Every reader of the Conversations with the God is invited to self-select, that is, to choose themselves, to be among those who commit to moving forward their own individual and personal evolution by embracing and demonstrating behaviors that serve to awaken the species to who and what human beings really are Individuations of Divinity, and how that may be made manifest in our experience. Neale Donald Walsch being-real self moving It's easier for me to say what God is not, and then what God is. Neale Donald Walsch easier I don't think that God is a person, a great big person in the sky. I think that God is the essence of life that shapes and forms itself in a thousand different ways, in a million lifetimes, that can be used and focused, and directed and experienced. Neale Donald Walsch essence sky thinking The patriarchal model of spirituality was, I think, a necessary step, as a baby learns to crawl before it walks. Neale Donald Walsch steps baby thinking Do not let anyone, of any sex, tell you that your intuitions and insights, your wisdom and your understandings, are somehow second-rate or not to be trusted. Neale Donald Walsch intuition understanding sex The holy trinity, the holy triad is a construction which is found in every aspect of life. Whether it is body, mind and spirit, or whether it is conscious, subconscious and superconscious. Neale Donald Walsch body spirit mind 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. Neale Donald Walsch mind heart thinking I think that it is true that for me as I observe it, that the Western World tends to be more of , tends to encompass more of, the masculine energy of the planet itself, the planet's population. Whereas the Eastern part of the world tends to encompass more of the planet's population's feminine aspects. And for those reasons the East and the West tend to approach God very much as men and women do. So the differences between East and West are the differences between men and women, largely. Neale Donald Walsch differences men thinking I think God is the creative force of the universe. I think it is the raw material from which life emerges. Neale Donald Walsch raw-materials creative thinking I think the Westerner approaches his path through his mind. I think the Easterner approaches, largely, although not exclusively, his path through his heart. Neale Donald Walsch mind heart thinking 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. Neale Donald Walsch dogma separation essentials 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. Neale Donald Walsch formulas working-it knows None of the systems we have created are producing the outcomes that were intended. They're actually producing exactly the opposite. Neale Donald Walsch outcomes opposites There are those who thought that on The Big Day, December 21, 2012, the world would end. It did not. Indeed, little has changed, and that is the greatest sadness. After all the hype and all the hope, little seems to have changed. Neale Donald Walsch hype sadness world Some of our earliest codes of ethics in the so-called Western World are little more than a rewriting of the Ten Commandments. Eastern legal constructions likewise arise out of the earliest spiritual traditions and understandings. Neale Donald Walsch understanding spiritual world 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. Neale Donald Walsch serious humanity culture Even a casual observer can see that not one of the systems, institutions, and devices that our species has put into place on this planet to "create a better life for all" is functioning in a way that generates that outcome. Neale Donald Walsch better-life outcomes way 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. Neale Donald Walsch soul spiritual mind Our political systems clearly are not working. Neale Donald Walsch political-systems political