Sharing some Spiritual Thoughts and Principles from Neale Donald Walsh's book 'Conversations with God' (Part One)

Article Title: Sharing some Spiritual Thoughts and Principles from Neale Donald Walsh's book 'Conversations with God' (Part One)
Submitted by Craig Lock
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"We share what we know, so that we all may grow."
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Sharing some Spiritual Thoughts and Principles from Neale Donald Walsh's
'Conversations with God' (Part One)

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience."
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Submitters's Note:
This article (in point form) was largely based upon notes I've taken from Neale Donald Walsh's series of books 'Conversations with God', whilst studying the link between the human mind and spirituality. Whilst I may not agree with all of Walsch's views and beliefs on the concept of a "Higher Power', I'm sharing this piece to hopefully stimulate thinking and discussion on these concepts from Walsh's personal ideas and beliefs on the 'spiritual journey'.

Please excuse words in "caps" - the ones I feel are very important. I'm not shouting, but this "techno-dummy" doesn't know how to change type to bold in this mail program!
Enjoy (hopefully)...
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The spiritual experience is a realm way beyond the reach of science. It points to vitality, life force, creativity and the wholeness of human experience
(living).

Life is not a process of discovery - it's a process of CREATION. You create through your life decisions. Await nothing; but inspiringly create everything you choose and desire in life. I see God as Co-Creator and observer of our lives (like a "sleeping partner"). God does the watching WITHOUT JUDGEMENT. We keep waiting for God to tell us, show us, and God keeps waiting for us to show Him/Her/It/They. We're waiting for the One who waits for us.

My comment:
I CHOOSE to see God far more as a "friend and Co-Creator (like a co-pilot)... with me each step of the journey, rather than as an "impassive observer" of my life. I also try to make God as big as I can possibly conceive!

Nothing has meaning, except the meaning we give it. You create your own reality - always go with your own deepest feelings, your deepest truth.

Feelings are the 'language of the soul'. A thing has no purpose in itself. Every purpose for any thing is given to it by you and me.

When you don't know what to do, or what course to take? Just let go and let it be right...for now that you don't have the answer. Create the space for the answer to occur to you in the stillness (via the subconscious mind). We determine our fate by the thoughts we entertain collectively. Our collective consciousness creates a great deal of our individual reality. All the time we are creating.

Jesus believed in the value and worth of every human being and his life showed the world a God of LOVE. He died and rose again, so that we know the truth about him, and hence about ourselves. His act was meant as a demonstration of WHO WE REALLY ARE: ie. living out who he really was, what he saw as his 'divine purpose' - acting out and living his life mission (bringing humanity closer to 'the divine'), what he was called to do and BE with total commitment and integrity...and especially love. Jesus was a divine master, who possessed absolute understanding of the truth - the truth about himself and about God. He wished to share the truth with all the world. Thus he said, "I and the Father are one". We are brothers. We were all made in the image and likeness of God and Jesus kept trying to tell us so...but few people believed him. We can think we are in a living hell, and then we can change our perception about it... and the entire perception changes for us.
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You are not "supposed" to do anything. Eg. tithing. You have no purpose, until you assign it one. It's a CHOICE we make. We are waiting for God to show us our purpose, and God is waiting for us to show Him our purpose. There is only one reason to do anything: to announce and DECLARE, EXPRESS and EXPERIENCE, fulfill and become Who You Really Are.

All people come to the truth when they are ready. Just watch and wait.

Things can always be made better. The dream never ends and the mission is never truly accomplished (Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King). God's dream is that we
will all one day be completely realised - to be our "real selves". To achieve happiness, serenity and a feeling of peace about life, when we become detached from results.

Just do and more importantly, BE.

"Be the very best person YOU can be having "loads/heaps of" FUN along the journey of life."

"When I let go of who (and what) I think I am, then I become all that I am capable of being. Enjoy just being YOU and be happy, as you ride the rapids, er sorry, water-falls of life."

Shared by Craig Lock ("Information and Inspiration Distributor", Incorrigible
Encourager and People-builder")

I love these words of Marianne Williamson (and used by Nelson Mandela in his inaugeration speech in 1994)...

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking;
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously
give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others."

"There is no end. There is no beginning.
There is only the infinite passion, mystery and even the occasional miracle in the magical journey of life."
- me

"Together, let's see how many people we can impact, uplift, empower, encourage and perhaps even inspire to reach their fullest potentials."

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