I treasure the wisdom in this book 3/2/2010 4:48:48 AM
Neale Donald Walsch put into words and answered my concerns about the interpretation of the world's sacred texts.
Walsch says the material in “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue” was not written by him but happened to him. God did not stop talking to us 2,000 years ago He talks to anyone who will listen. This book is God's latest word and if we are ready the Truth in these teachings will move, empower and change us.
How Walsch accessed the information matters not. What I treasure is the wisdom.
Examples of misguided teachings include: We cannot get to heaven by our actions. We are born in sin and will die in sin. There is only one way to heaven and it's not through any undertaking of our own, but through the grace granted us by God and through the acceptance of His Son as our intermediary. Until we are “saved,” nothing we do, not the life we live, not the choices we make, not anything we undertake of our own will bears any influence because we are inherently unworthy. God created us this way and God's Son has to save us.
Another misguided teaching is God's conditional acceptance. We say God is love but if we break His commandments we will be punished by eternal banishment and damnation. We even created a mythology called the “devil.” We have forgotten what it is like to be loved without conditions.
In the spiritual world no one will judge us. There are no victims and villains for God does not judge His creation. Hell, the opposite of joy, is unfulfillment. It is knowing Who and What You Are and failing to experience that. The goal of the soul is to fully realize itself while in the body. We are born of God, we are pure love. Therefore bless every person and condition and give thanks. Affirm the perfection and show faith in God's creation.
The fall of Adam and Eve was upliftment for without it relativity would not exist. Original sin, in truth, is First Blessing. No condition in the universe is “good” or “bad.” It just is.
There are no Ten Commandments. The word of God is not a commandment but a covenant. They are our freedoms not our restrictions. God is telling us this is how we know we are coming home.
All human emotions are motivated by either love or fear. Love is the language of the soul. We can access God within when we discover and uncover the Truth though prayer and meditation. One is talking to God and the other is listening. The greatest reminder is not what everyone outside us says but the voice within. We place too much importance on the Word of God and too little on the experience. Our fear-based love dominates and creates our reality. God cannot tell us His Truth until we stop telling Him ours.
God told Walsch our mission on Earth is to remember we are a part of a divine whole. He voluntarily created fear, so love its opposite, could be experienced. Fear is the energy which contracts, closes down, draws in, runs, hoards and harms. Love is the energy which expands, opens up, stays, reveals, shares and heals. Love has no expectations. Correct prayer is one of gratitude not supplication.
We are not on this planet to produce something with our body but with our soul. Our soul doesn't care what we do for a living. Our soul cares only about what we're being. Our body is a tool for the soul.
Our personal relationships are holy ground. They have nothing to do with the other, yet, because they involve another they have everything to do with them. When we loose sight of each other as sacred souls on a sacred journey, we cannot see the purpose behind all relationships. Our salvation is not in the action of another, but in our re-action.
A Master is one who has discovered the secret of the relative world and refuses to acknowledge its reality. They choose love in every instance. They know there are no coincidences. They love their oppressors even as they are being persecuted. In the moment of knowing they feel as God always does: totally joyful, loving, accepting, blessing and grateful.
A true Master is not the one with the most students but the one who creates the most Masters. A true leader is not the one with the most followers but the one who creates the most leaders.
A Master knows winning and loosing is not the test, only loving and failing to love. What we do for ourselves, we do for another. What we do for another we do for ourselves because we, the other and God are one. We are God's body. Everything is God. There is nothing else.
Enlightenment is understanding there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody we have to be except who we are being right now. There is no getting to heaven. We are already there.
