Neale Donald Walsch Quotes
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The world is starving for a new spiritual truth - a truth that works in sustaining life, not a truth that brings an end to life.
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They may not use the word better. But they certainly believe that they'll go to heaven and Jews will not.
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As we move into the 21st century, there's what the Bible calls a 'quickening of the spirit.'
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And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are.
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And in which we say that life is eternal but continue to struggle to survive.
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I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet.
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A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.
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Beyond the Catholic exclusionary paradigm is a larger one which is the Christian one. Christians claim that if you don't believe in Christ, you can't get to heaven. Well that eliminates two thirds of the world's population!
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Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.
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As the new spirituality begins to become the pervasive spirituality of the planet, we'll find that we have abandoned our philosophy of contradictions in which we say we're all one but continue to try to win.
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The new spirituality will bring about what I'm calling the 'end of better.' And that is in fact what is called for in the next of the series of books that I've been writing.
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I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.
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The Roman Catholics teach that unless you're a Roman Catholic you do not go to heaven.
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Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.
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And because we are, somehow, better than they, we get to go to heaven and they don't. Christians will tell you outright that they believe that.
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The new spirituality will also base itself on a third very large spiritual understanding, which is that life is eternal. Most religious people claim to believe that, but very few people actually live as if that were true.
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If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious.
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There's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Qur'an, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bible, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bhaghavad Gita, or of the Book of Mormon, or of the other sacred texts of many of those religions.
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We've seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive.
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The new spirituality will step away from dogma, will step away from 'We're right and you're wrong.'
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As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.
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I think the new spirituality will be a spirituality that's not based on a particular dogma. And that steps away from the old spiritual paradigm that we have created on this planet, which comes from a thought that there is such a thing as being better.
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I think in metaphysical terms, I would call that increasing the speed of the vibration of life.
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A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.