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 If a spaceship from the outer reaches of the galaxy landed on Earth in the next two months, and its occupants climbed out and presented Earthlings with a list of secrets - a simple formula - for making life finally work on this planet without violence, killing, and war, without turmoil, pain, and suffering, without want, lack, and despair, do you think we would be wise to look it over? Even if it contradicted everything we knew to be true or thought to be so? Neale Donald Walsch pain wise war What's going on is that our most fundamental ideas about life are not serving us. They never have. But now, with our advances in communication and technology, the situation has become critical - for our mechanisms have outrun our mentality. And so we find ourselves trying to solve the dilemmas of tomorrow with the solutions of yesterday. Neale Donald Walsch communication technology ideas Ours is not a dumb species. We have put a man on the moon. We have unlocked the secrets of the human genome. We have discovered how to take stem cells and coax them into becoming brain cells, heart muscle, liver tissue - any organ of the human body that needs repair. These are our miracles, and there are more. Yet we have not yet found a way to do the simplest things: To live in peace. To stop killing each other when we disagree. To distribute that which is good in life freely and fairly. Neale Donald Walsch moon heart men Is it possible that there is something we don't fully understand about God and about Life, the understanding of which would change everything? Is it possible that there is something we don't understand about ourselves, and about who we are, the understanding of which would alter our lives forever for the better? Yes. The answer is yes. Neale Donald Walsch understanding answers forever 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. Neale Donald Walsch spiritual long believe Personal happiness seems mysteriously and frustratingly elusive. Even when people achieve it, they can't hold onto it. That is the greatest clue, the biggest hint, the surest sign that something's amiss. Neale Donald Walsch clue hints people It is still true that the life we have created for ourselves on this earth is not working. Not one of the systems we have put into place in our world is functional - not the political, not the economical, not the ecological, not the educational, not the social, and not the spiritual. None of them are producing the outcomes we say we want. In fact, it's worse. They are producing the outcomes we say we don't want. Neale Donald Walsch our-world educational spiritual For me, there is only one question to ask when I am thinking, saying, or doing anything: "What does this have to do with the agenda of my soul?" Neale Donald Walsch soul doe thinking 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. Neale Donald Walsch taken identity opportunity The soul has come to the physical realm to have a direct experience of itself as an "individuation of divinity." Neale Donald Walsch divinity realms soul Science and medicine and technology have all produced the breathtaking advances with which they have gifted the human race, only because they have been willing to do what religion has consistently, staunchly, and stubbornly refused to do: question the prior assumption. Neale Donald Walsch medicine technology race Look at the history of civil laws in our world and the source from which they emerged, and you will see that the vast majority of them arose directly from, or where based in principle on, Roman Canon Law, or the laws of other religious origin. Sharia is another notable example. Neale Donald Walsch our-world religious 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. Neale Donald Walsch separation problem way A Separation Cosmology produces a Separation Psychology, a psychological viewpoint that says that I am over here and you are over there. Neale Donald Walsch viewpoints separation psychology The problem is, most people don't like to hear suggestions that directly confront or run counter to their most sacred beliefs. Neale Donald Walsch suggestions running people A Separation Psychology produces a Separation Sociology, a way of socializing with each other that encourages the entire human society to act as separate entities serving their own separate interests. Neale Donald Walsch separation psychology way A Separation Sociology produces a Separation Pathology, pathological behaviors of self-destruction, engaged in individually and collectively, and producing suffering, conflict, violence, and death by our own hands. Neale Donald Walsch suffering self hands Replacing physical priorities with spiritual priorities can change everything. Neale Donald Walsch priorities spiritual What is needed today is for all of us to work to change the world's mind about God. Neale Donald Walsch mind today world 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. Neale Donald Walsch humanity law world
