32 Quotes & Sayings By Neale Donald Walsch

Neale Donald Walsch is an author, teacher, and public speaker. An award-winning author of over 30 books, he is best known for his Conversations with God series of books that were inspired by his conversations with God. He has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, MTV, MTV2, The 700 Club, Fox News Channel, The O'Reilly Factor, The View, Geraldo at Large, Larry King Live, C-SPAN's Booknotes and The History Channel. He is a regular guest of Radio Free America and his books have been translated into thirty languages Read more

In 2007 his book Conversations with God: The Book of God was published in paperback.

The purpose of relationship is not to have another who...
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The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness. Neale Donald Walsch
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The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be. Neale Donald Walsch
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Do not waste the precious moments of this, your present reality, seeking to unveil all of life's secrets. Those secrets are a secret for a reason. Grant your God the benefit of the doubt. Use your NOW moment for the Highest Purpose- the creation and the expression of WHO YOU REALLY ARE. Decide who you are- who you want to be-and then do everything in your power to be that. It is not nearly so important how well a message is received as how well it is sent. You cannot take responsibility for how well another accepts your truth; you can only ensure how well it is communicated. And by how well, I don't mean merely how clearly; I mean how lovingly, how compassionately, how sensitively, how courageously, and how completely. If you think your life is about DOINGNESS, you do not understand what you are about. Your soul doesn't care what you do for a living-and when your life is over, neither will you. Your soul cares only about what you're BEING while you're doing whatever you're doing. It is a state of BEINGNESS the soul is after, not a state of doingness. Neale Donald Walsch
If you want the best the world has to offer,...
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If you want the best the world has to offer, offer the world your best. Neale Donald Walsch
The Highest Thought is always that thought which contains joy....
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The Highest Thought is always that thought which contains joy. The Clearest Words are those words which contain truth. The Grandest Feeling is that feeling which you call love. Neale Donald Walsch
There is no truth except the truth that exists within...
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There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you. Neale Donald Walsch
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Be a light unto the world, and hurt it not. Seek to build not destroy. Bring My people home. How? By your shining example. Seek only Godliness. Speak only in truthfulness. Act only in love. Live the Law of Love now and forever more. Give everything require nothing. Avoid the mundane. Do not accept the unacceptable. Teach all who seek to learn of Me. Make every moment of your life an outpouring of love. Use every moment to think the highest thought, say the highest word, do the highest deed. In this, glorify your Holy Self, and thus too, glorify Me. Bring peace to the Earth by bringing peace to all those whose lives you touch. Be peace. Feel and express in every moment your Divine Connection with the All, and with every person, place, and thing. Embrace every circumstance, own every fault, share every joy, contemplate every mystery, walk in every man’s shoes, forgive every offense (including your own), heal every heart, honor every person’s truth, adore every person’s God, protect every person’s rights, preserve every person’s dignity, promote every person’s interests, provide every person’s needs, presume every person’s holiness, present every person’s greatest gifts, produce every person’s blessing, pronounce every person’s future secure in the assured love of God. Be a living, breathing example of the Highest Truth that resides within you. Speak humbly of yourself, lest someone mistake your Highest Truth for boast. Speak softly, lest someone think you are merely calling for attention. Speak gently, that all might know of Love. Speak openly, lest someone think you have something to hide. Speak candidly, so you cannot be mistaken. Speak often, so that your word may truly go forth. Speak respectfully, that no one be dishonored. Speak lovingly, that every syllable may heal. Speak of Me with every utterance. Make of your life a gift. Remember always, you are the gift! Be a gift to everyone who enters your life, and to everyone whose life you enter. Be careful not to enter another’s life if you cannot be a gift. (You can always be a gift, because you always are the gift–yet sometimes you don’t let yourself know that.) When someone enters your life unexpectedly, look for the gift that person has come to receive from you… I HAVE SENT YOU NOTHING BUT ANGELS. Neale Donald Walsch
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Start telling the truth now and never stop. Begin by telling the truth to yourself about yourself. Then tell the truth to yourself about someone else. Then tell the truth about yourself to another. Then tell the truth about another to that other. Finally, tell the truth to everyone about everything. These are the 5 levels of truth telling. This is the five-fold path to freedom. Neale Donald Walsch
You are afraid to die, and you’re afraid to live....
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You are afraid to die, and you’re afraid to live. What a way to exist. Neale Donald Walsch
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Must you know that yours will be the “better” picture before you pick up the brush and paint? Can it not simply be another picture? Another expression of beauty? Must a rose be “better” than an iris in order to justify it’s existence? I tell you this: you are all flowers in the Garden of the Gods. Neale Donald Walsch
Life is a creation, not a discovery
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Life is a creation, not a discovery Neale Donald Walsch
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To travel a circle is to journey over the same ground time and time again. To travel a circle wisely is to journey over the same ground for the first time. In this way, the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and the circle, a path to where you wish to be. And when you notice at last that the path has circled back into itself, you realize that where you wish to be is where you have already been .. and always were. Neale Donald Walsch
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A Soul Knowing: You are the sum total of the Body, Mind, and Soul, and each of these aspects of you has a purpose and a function, but only one has an agenda: the Soul. Neale Donald Walsch
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Thought is creative - Fear attracts like energy - Love is all there is. Neale Donald Walsch
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Remember first that everything you think, say, and do is a reflection of what you've decided about yourself; a statement of Who You Are; an act of creation in your deciding who you want to be. Neale Donald Walsch
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Belief creates behaviors. Neale Donald Walsch
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There are those who say that seeing is believing. I am telling you that believing is seeing. Neale Donald Walsch
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…there is rapidly developing a soil shortage on your planet. That is, you are running out of good soil in which to grow your food. This is because soil needs time to reconstitute itself, and your corporate farmers have no time. They want land that is producing, producing, producing. So the age-old practice of alternating growing fields from season to season is being abandoned or shortened. To make up for the loss of time, chemicals are being dumped into the land in order to render it fertile faster. Yet in this, as with all things, you cannot develop an artificial substitute for Mother Nature which comes even close to providing what She provides. . Neale Donald Walsch
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Father, help me never to place judgment upon another and then only upon the merit therein. Neale Donald Walsch
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The purpose of life is to know, and to recreate, Who You Are. Neale Donald Walsch
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A five-word sentence that could change the world tomorrow is "What would love do now?" Neale Donald Walsch
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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. Neale Donald Walsch
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Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion. Neale Donald Walsch
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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. Neale Donald Walsch
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One either has to believe in a God who's terribly prejudiced, or disbelieve the teachings of such exclusionary theologies. Religions have taught us that 'we are better than they.' Neale Donald Walsch
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God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet. Neale Donald Walsch
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The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.' Neale Donald Walsch
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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. Neale Donald Walsch
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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. Neale Donald Walsch
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The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.' Neale Donald Walsch
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Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. Neale Donald Walsch