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Conversations with God #2
Conversas com Deus - Livro 2
A Conversa continua, alargando-se a temas de âmbito planetário.
323 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1996
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Neale Donald Walsch
353 books1,851 followersNeale Donald Walsch is a modern day spiritual messenger whose words continue to touch the world in profound ways. With an early interest in religion and a deeply felt connection to spirituality, Neale spent the majority of his life thriving professionally, yet searching for spiritual meaning before beginning his now famous conversation with God. His With God series of books has been translated into 34 languages, touching millions of lives and inspiring important changes in their day-to-day lives.
In addition to authoring the renowned With God series, Neale has published 16 other works, as well as a number of video and audio programs. Available throughout the world, each of the CwG dialogue books has made the New York Times Bestseller list, Conversations with God-Book 1 occupying that list for over two and half years.
The With God Series has redefined God and shifted spiritual paradigms around the globe. In order to deal with the enormous response to his writings, Neale created the Conversations with God Foundation, a non-profit educational organization dedicated to inspiring the world to help itself move from violence to peace, from confusion to clarity, and from anger to love.
Neale's work has taken him from the steps of Macchu Picchu in Peru to the steps of the Shinto shrines of Japan, from Red Square in Moscow to St. Peters Square in Vatican City to Tiananmen Square in China. And everywhere he has gone-from South Africa to Norway, Croatia to The Netherlands, the streets of Zurich to the streets of Seoul, Neale has found a hunger among the people to find a new way to live, at last, in peace and harmony, and he has sought to bring people a new understanding of life and of God which would allow them to experience that."
In addition to authoring the renowned With God series, Neale has published 16 other works, as well as a number of video and audio programs. Available throughout the world, each of the CwG dialogue books has made the New York Times Bestseller list, Conversations with God-Book 1 occupying that list for over two and half years.
The With God Series has redefined God and shifted spiritual paradigms around the globe. In order to deal with the enormous response to his writings, Neale created the Conversations with God Foundation, a non-profit educational organization dedicated to inspiring the world to help itself move from violence to peace, from confusion to clarity, and from anger to love.
Neale's work has taken him from the steps of Macchu Picchu in Peru to the steps of the Shinto shrines of Japan, from Red Square in Moscow to St. Peters Square in Vatican City to Tiananmen Square in China. And everywhere he has gone-from South Africa to Norway, Croatia to The Netherlands, the streets of Zurich to the streets of Seoul, Neale has found a hunger among the people to find a new way to live, at last, in peace and harmony, and he has sought to bring people a new understanding of life and of God which would allow them to experience that."
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January 21, 2024
"The Ultimate Truth: nothing exists in the universe that is separate from anything else. Everything is intrinsically connected, irrevocably interdependent, interactive, interwoven into the fabric of all of life.”
This is the second book of the three-book series. The first book deals with individual life truths and challenges. This second book deals with truths of life as a family on this planet.
In this book, the author tells about his views on celibacy, the taboo of sex, tantric sex, and myths surrounding it.
“If sex is so wonderful part of the human experience, why do so many spiritual teachers preach abstinence, and why are so many maters apparently are celibate?”
“For the same reason, most of them have been depicted living simply. Those who have a high level of understanding bring their bodily desires into balance with their minds and souls.”
The author's take on relationships are also interesting
“Enjoy everything. Need nothing. Needing someone is the fastest way to kill a relationship .. The greatest gift you can give someone is the strength and the power not to need you, to need you for nothing."
The author's view about the health care system and discrimination is an important topic that needs discussion. But the author dismally somehow walks into impetuous misleading territories with his invective views at the end.
The part where the author says that Hitler did nothing wrong and Hitler went to heaven was ridiculous. The author tries to substantiate it by saying that many people followed Hitler's ideas at that time, making it more ludicrous. I never expected such immature statements in a book discussing spirituality in depth. Such inane insolent remarks will impugn the originality of the whole book.
Overall this book is somewhat a good follow-up to the first one. But I think the first book is better than this one.
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October 24, 2018
No se puede negar que estos libros te hacen pensar y reflexionar sobre el mundo. Deseando empezar el tercero y último libro.
September 17, 2007
It doesn't matter whether you truly think the author conversed with God or whether he made the whole thing up (who's to say?), the spiritual insights into the everyday and commentary of what we have turned religion into are worth the read.
July 26, 2010
I can see how devoted Christians could find this book offensive as there are a few times quoted that 'following religion makes you good at obeying, not any closer to God', people might find this hard to swallow considering you have 'rules/commandments' to follow as Christians and also that there are no bad apples, just people who have different views of the world. After studying sociology the messages in this match a lot of what I learned at university. I love how the series gets more in depth with each book. All the questions I have ever had about life and purpose were answered in such a 'holy' way I know it can only come from God. But whatever to all the skeptics, you decide, as you have the right to pick your own 'truths'. There is some really valuable messages in here though, spiritual or not.
January 21, 2008
Whether you believe what happened to Neale Donald Walsche or not, it is a fascinating read and puts a new, refreshing view on spirituality.
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June 5, 2013These books (Conversations With God 1, 2, 3) are the books that got me into spirituality, and that was the doorway to becoming me! I was fascinated by this series and felt a connection I had never felt to anything or anyone before. As a teenager who was at the time, looking for something to connect to this series of books really helped me!
December 31, 2015
Book 1 was more enjoyable than Book 2. The first one dealt with individual consciousness while this one jumped into world issues. It's much easier to shift your own world view than it is to encourage other people to do the same. At least, I think so.
What I took from Conversations with God, either book really, is to find your truth and live it. Understand that there are ways to talk to yourself and others that serve you and ways that do not. But, nobody is going to stand in judgment on you if you choose one way over another. It's all up to you. You create your own reality. How and why? Well, those are the types of questions that Walsch tries to answer in these pages. I enjoyed the journey with him, most of the time, except when he went on rampages of negativity. That happens occasionally, so you can clarify what you're reaching for. As Walsch explains, sometimes its easier "to find who you are by first exploring what you are not." But, it's not fun to read and it's not me.
If you enjoyed Conversations with God, you may want to try any of the Abraham Hicks materials by Esther Hicks or Seth Speaks by Jane Roberts.
What I took from Conversations with God, either book really, is to find your truth and live it. Understand that there are ways to talk to yourself and others that serve you and ways that do not. But, nobody is going to stand in judgment on you if you choose one way over another. It's all up to you. You create your own reality. How and why? Well, those are the types of questions that Walsch tries to answer in these pages. I enjoyed the journey with him, most of the time, except when he went on rampages of negativity. That happens occasionally, so you can clarify what you're reaching for. As Walsch explains, sometimes its easier "to find who you are by first exploring what you are not." But, it's not fun to read and it's not me.
If you enjoyed Conversations with God, you may want to try any of the Abraham Hicks materials by Esther Hicks or Seth Speaks by Jane Roberts.
September 1, 2020
I read all kinds of books on spirituality and religion, but this one didn't work for me. I think my soul became disquieted because something about this book didn't ring true to me. It made me question whether the author was truly conversing with God, or his own ego. Could not finish...
June 2, 2017
Kad bi svi ljudi na svijetu... odlučili da.. E, kako bi to bilo divno mjesto, ta Zemlja naša..
Tko god da ćakula u knjizi, sviđaju mi se ideje! Neke ću prihvatiti kao svoje! ;-)
Tko god da ćakula u knjizi, sviđaju mi se ideje! Neke ću prihvatiti kao svoje! ;-)
October 20, 2018
เป็นการตอบปัญหาในระดับที่กว้างกว่าเล่มแรก ชอบแนวคิดจิตสำนึกรวมหมู่ ชอบที่สอนให้หัดตั้งคำถามเกี่ยวกับหลักศาสนา ทัศนะพระเจ้าต่อการเมืองออกแนวขายฝันและปฏิบัติได้ยากสักหน่อย ปัญหาของโลกเมื่อ 20 ปีที่แล้วที่พีะเจ้ายกขึ้นมาพูดคุย ปัจจุบันก้อยังเป็นปัญหาที่ไม่ได้รับการแก้ไข
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March 23, 2021
...The only reason I read this book without any trace of judgement or without a filter of morales is because I had read it at a point in my life when I was utterly disillusioned----nothing in my life was working! Everywhere there was only immeasurable pain! And luckily unlike most people, I would sit up in the middle of the night, hammering against the bed or the table, asking, "What is REALLY happening here? What really is this life about? Like WHAT? Like what? What am I not understanding?" This roundabout of questions dug deeper than the usual superficial questions of "why is my life full of pain?",
"why are people so hateful around me?"
"I have no reason to live. Why live?“
I didn’t know at the time, but I eally was zooming out cosmically to glance in aerial view what was this small event of me in relation to life----what? Human answers didn't matter one bit at this point!
I really was going meta..... beyond.... I wasn't asking for answers mortal opinions would grant---no "God-thought" etc would have satiated me then. I wanted first-hand experience of truth in that moment. DIRECT EXPERIENCE. Not concepts like "God" and "Gita" and "Shiva". Hence the sabbatical I was had undertaken!
I later understood that that was the exact degree of open-mindedness which was necessary for me to grasp this book! If I lacked any speck of it, I swear the book would have annoyed the hell out of me! God himself states, this book is going to anger the world!
I will give 5 stars for all the points---on education, sex, politics, even the one on Hitler----because during my time of reading the book, I was past morales and I could for the first time see the tapestry of how cosmos worked--- understand this, cosmically there is no such thing as morales---there is only life shifting from one dimension to another. Morales exist only in the social structure created by what is called as "human"---the realm of human words!
I had a long discussion with my father about Hilter based on what the author states here--- "Hilter went to heaven....
and, “Hitler did nothing wrong"
Before I state anything about that I will explain one thing first—the entire book speaks from a cosmic point of view, not social point of view. If you are extremely inclined about going meta in understanding of life, not of understanding suffering which really is vested in the human mindscape, then you will begin reasoning well with God's words. I am speaking about going meta…..beyond….. questioning every single morality-judgement. Paradigm you are operating from, putting question mark on each and everyone of your own filters, if only you can go to that level of liberated viewing will God’s points of view about consciousness begin making sense. In truth, there is only one life force that is gaining expression in all different forms everywhere in the universe. So, singular creation/ consciousness is at play everywhere. In that aspect, everything in the universe is merely a dance of creation.
I will quote some stray lines of other great people here to align with my point—DANCE OF CREATION—stated above,
Sadhguru—> “The reason why everyone is not naturally enlightened is simply this: people have categorised the world as good and bad, God and Devil, high and low, sacred and filthy, pure and impure, heaven and hell. These are parallel lines that will never meet once.”
Alan Watts—> “Man take seriously what the Gods are creating for fun.”/
“The Godhead is not the object of its own knowledge”<——meaning the more you TRY to understand God by FIRST HAND EXPERIENCE, the more you situate this quest outwardly into the world forgetting you are IT. Just like you can’t bite your own teeth, the Godhead is not the object of its own knowledge.
So if everything is a dance of creation, is killing of any significance cosmically? No! It’s all one force in expression. An intangible force, what Taoism terms as “The way.”
In that context, understanding that Hilter too went towards the proverbial heaven makes very much sense, as God states.
Now the discussion that I was having with father around what God states about Hitler doing nothing wrong is agreeable as well. God speaks, remember not from the point of view of human consciousness of what-is-possible/ what-is-doable-or-not. God speaks from the point of view of one unified consciousness that is at play and hence in trying to explain our worldly problems, he states that Hilter could only have risen to power, and committed all of his atrocities because many others joined him for the same. True! Just like governments cannot take everything in their hands and it is only people whose everyday activities combine with the functioning of the government to make it one composite whole!
When I reflect on the atrocities at the concentration camps, I read and figured that Hitler had never personally visited any of the concentration camps and essentially the ruthless behaviours were mostly discreet, disdainful attitudes of the Nazi SS Men. You cannot entirely put the full blame on Hitler when these men offered to extend what was being promoted across the land——demolition of Jews. Yes! Many became Nazi SS men because they were scared they would be terminated otherwise, but so many did it by choice too. If you dig deeper into the attitudes of the Nazi SS Men and sit with it, you will come to realise most of them demonstrated, by original nature, more traits of bestiality than perhaps Hitler himself demonstrated openly. Or maybe at par! Once again, whichever way you weigh my previous line, from the viewpoint of a unified consciousness, you will come to understand that it was the conglomeration of several hotspots of similar-minded consciousness points that led to the creation of the Hitler-case. So, shedding the entire blame on one human makes utterly no sense even if from our societal viewpoint, he needed to be crushed for the holocaust to cease.
People like Hilter very much exist in today’s world. My own uncle, who was a doctor was murdered by his doctor colleagues (with sticks) when I was in 8th grade—reason was jealousy, and it was known to all. Where really is the difference between that and Hitler’s case? They (a small group of doctors from Serampore, near Kolkata) thought that my uncle didn’t deserve to live on and Hilter thought Jews didn’t deserve a chance in the world. One scenario had very few killers and only one person to be killed. The other scenario had many groups of people who collectively joined hands to kills thousands. So, the only real difference was not in the nationality and the premise, but the numbers. Aren’t there little such situations continuously happening around, and many being overlooked, or falling short of actually happening? Meaning such people abound the streets. Given multiple assisted hands, and assassins would flood the streets.
This is exactly what my father and I came to agree with when we had a heated discussion on his topic at home!
But from the cosmic viewpoint (the realm of the Absolute, of Gods), killings don’t matter. From the cosmic viewpoint, fish is being eaten by a bigger fish, fire is breaking into a forest and claiming lives, stars are colliding against each other and new nebulas are born, and humans are killing one another. Do you see where we stand then? Cosmically, it is all okay!
The reason why I wanted to explain this deeply is because I do not want people to naturally assume that the book is misguiding you, it’s not. I will have to explain further, that this book was written by the author’s continuous consultation with his intuition—It is entirely in question-answer form. He writes down a question in a paper and awaits the answers to form in his mind and he would invest no effort in altering whatever formed in his mind.
I experienced this many times—when I consulted a voice within me and I would weirdly be presented with an answer, very relevant to my question, astonishing in sudden appearance, that had remained dormant within me for ages, but I understand if you don’t believe any of this.
So wherein the Hitler-points are helpful is to help transcend words and see what REALLY is happening past any thought——it is a dance of cosmos, the Gods, the realm of pure absolute Love/ consciousness. This absolutely doesn’t state that you promote such atrocities. This portion of the novel is not to provide a different code of ethics about how to move about the world!
So, emotions and prejudices, likes-and-dislikes cloud truth--in the space of which nothing really counts! So, if I were a sole survivor of the Holocaust, my emotions---of hate, grief, anger and revenge--- would cloud away my understanding of truth, which is cosmically, there is no psychological or social judgements!
The book helped to make me aware of the fact that the whole of life is REALLY just a play and the only real work here on this planet is to discover who it is we really are. Ultimately, as stated by God, we have selected situations in our lives, at the time of birth, which will form the fertile grounds for rediscovering the truth of who it is we really are. This is also stated in book 1. Strangely this matches my life! So strange it kind of amazes me especially when I replay all and arrive at "today!"
The explanation of “Sex” given by God is one of the most beautiful expressions I have ever read my entire life, with regards to the topic of "Sex". It is absolutely ghastly that we were made to feel ashamed around a topic like that all our lives. Nonsense! You have to read this part. You won’t regret it!
The explanations about how schools disregards the natural tendencies of an individual and looking past diverse ways in expression every child naturally comes to reveal, was one of the painful realisations I had ever encountered with. It had given me a headache because I could finally yank out the truth behind the fact that I never quite fit into any institution as much, and that I was rejected by these institutions simply because they operated in a paradigm I never fit in! This was a very sad discovery for me when I first had it! But it granted me enormous hope for life——to no longer operate in the garb of my “8th grade trophies”
The book didn’t fully help me understand the meaning of “Oneness” although conceptually it did. This book was my firsthand experience of “Oneness” as a theory. But I experienced “oneness” for real only after following Mooji baba’s Satsang, and through my consistent personal self-inquiry of my inner voice. I recommend these for people who are seeking to experience truth and are hungry for it for real-time experience, but for conceptual understanding , “Converstions With God” is a very good start!
There is a lot more the book has to offer. I am warning you, if you don’t posses a striking ability to put a question mark on every prejudice you bear in your mind, on every concept you hold dear…..if you cannot put aside your cherished beliefs and attach a question mark on each of them…..this book can and will overwhelm you!
So, I will recommend this book for only those who are able to question every damn thing in their head (all their own judgements of people, your own likes and dislikes), and are able to question everybody in their lives! If you are in a place of —— “I really don’t know anything” (as I was when I read it, and which is really the case in truth), you are ready for the book!
We really KNOW nothing---for everything we KNOW has only been picked up in life! :)
A quote from the Untethered Soul beautifully matches all this talk about the book---> " “If you want to be happy, you have to let go of the part of you that wants to create melodrama. This is the part that thinks there’s a reason not to be happy. You have to transcend the personal, and as you do, you will naturally awaken to the higher aspects of your being. In the end, enjoying life’s experiences is the only rational thing to do. You’re sitting on a planet spinning around in the middle of absolutely nowhere. Go ahead, take a look at reality. You’re floating in empty space in a universe that goes on forever. If you have to be here, at least be happy and enjoy the experience. You’re going to die anyway. Things are going to happen anyway. Why shouldn’t you be happy? You gain nothing by being bothered by life’s events. It doesn’t change the world; you just suffer. There’s always going to be something that can bother you, if you let it.”
Although the author is different, the meanings come preciously close when regarded with precision!
The power of this book, as do the rest, lies in revealing truth to mankind. Truth is beyond words, morales, psychological and social judgements! If you desire only truth and not regular mundane desires that most humans seek, you are fit for this book!
"why are people so hateful around me?"
"I have no reason to live. Why live?“
I didn’t know at the time, but I eally was zooming out cosmically to glance in aerial view what was this small event of me in relation to life----what? Human answers didn't matter one bit at this point!
I really was going meta..... beyond.... I wasn't asking for answers mortal opinions would grant---no "God-thought" etc would have satiated me then. I wanted first-hand experience of truth in that moment. DIRECT EXPERIENCE. Not concepts like "God" and "Gita" and "Shiva". Hence the sabbatical I was had undertaken!
I later understood that that was the exact degree of open-mindedness which was necessary for me to grasp this book! If I lacked any speck of it, I swear the book would have annoyed the hell out of me! God himself states, this book is going to anger the world!
I will give 5 stars for all the points---on education, sex, politics, even the one on Hitler----because during my time of reading the book, I was past morales and I could for the first time see the tapestry of how cosmos worked--- understand this, cosmically there is no such thing as morales---there is only life shifting from one dimension to another. Morales exist only in the social structure created by what is called as "human"---the realm of human words!
I had a long discussion with my father about Hilter based on what the author states here--- "Hilter went to heaven....
and, “Hitler did nothing wrong"
Before I state anything about that I will explain one thing first—the entire book speaks from a cosmic point of view, not social point of view. If you are extremely inclined about going meta in understanding of life, not of understanding suffering which really is vested in the human mindscape, then you will begin reasoning well with God's words. I am speaking about going meta…..beyond….. questioning every single morality-judgement. Paradigm you are operating from, putting question mark on each and everyone of your own filters, if only you can go to that level of liberated viewing will God’s points of view about consciousness begin making sense. In truth, there is only one life force that is gaining expression in all different forms everywhere in the universe. So, singular creation/ consciousness is at play everywhere. In that aspect, everything in the universe is merely a dance of creation.
I will quote some stray lines of other great people here to align with my point—DANCE OF CREATION—stated above,
Sadhguru—> “The reason why everyone is not naturally enlightened is simply this: people have categorised the world as good and bad, God and Devil, high and low, sacred and filthy, pure and impure, heaven and hell. These are parallel lines that will never meet once.”
Alan Watts—> “Man take seriously what the Gods are creating for fun.”/
“The Godhead is not the object of its own knowledge”<——meaning the more you TRY to understand God by FIRST HAND EXPERIENCE, the more you situate this quest outwardly into the world forgetting you are IT. Just like you can’t bite your own teeth, the Godhead is not the object of its own knowledge.
So if everything is a dance of creation, is killing of any significance cosmically? No! It’s all one force in expression. An intangible force, what Taoism terms as “The way.”
In that context, understanding that Hilter too went towards the proverbial heaven makes very much sense, as God states.
Now the discussion that I was having with father around what God states about Hitler doing nothing wrong is agreeable as well. God speaks, remember not from the point of view of human consciousness of what-is-possible/ what-is-doable-or-not. God speaks from the point of view of one unified consciousness that is at play and hence in trying to explain our worldly problems, he states that Hilter could only have risen to power, and committed all of his atrocities because many others joined him for the same. True! Just like governments cannot take everything in their hands and it is only people whose everyday activities combine with the functioning of the government to make it one composite whole!
When I reflect on the atrocities at the concentration camps, I read and figured that Hitler had never personally visited any of the concentration camps and essentially the ruthless behaviours were mostly discreet, disdainful attitudes of the Nazi SS Men. You cannot entirely put the full blame on Hitler when these men offered to extend what was being promoted across the land——demolition of Jews. Yes! Many became Nazi SS men because they were scared they would be terminated otherwise, but so many did it by choice too. If you dig deeper into the attitudes of the Nazi SS Men and sit with it, you will come to realise most of them demonstrated, by original nature, more traits of bestiality than perhaps Hitler himself demonstrated openly. Or maybe at par! Once again, whichever way you weigh my previous line, from the viewpoint of a unified consciousness, you will come to understand that it was the conglomeration of several hotspots of similar-minded consciousness points that led to the creation of the Hitler-case. So, shedding the entire blame on one human makes utterly no sense even if from our societal viewpoint, he needed to be crushed for the holocaust to cease.
People like Hilter very much exist in today’s world. My own uncle, who was a doctor was murdered by his doctor colleagues (with sticks) when I was in 8th grade—reason was jealousy, and it was known to all. Where really is the difference between that and Hitler’s case? They (a small group of doctors from Serampore, near Kolkata) thought that my uncle didn’t deserve to live on and Hilter thought Jews didn’t deserve a chance in the world. One scenario had very few killers and only one person to be killed. The other scenario had many groups of people who collectively joined hands to kills thousands. So, the only real difference was not in the nationality and the premise, but the numbers. Aren’t there little such situations continuously happening around, and many being overlooked, or falling short of actually happening? Meaning such people abound the streets. Given multiple assisted hands, and assassins would flood the streets.
This is exactly what my father and I came to agree with when we had a heated discussion on his topic at home!
But from the cosmic viewpoint (the realm of the Absolute, of Gods), killings don’t matter. From the cosmic viewpoint, fish is being eaten by a bigger fish, fire is breaking into a forest and claiming lives, stars are colliding against each other and new nebulas are born, and humans are killing one another. Do you see where we stand then? Cosmically, it is all okay!
The reason why I wanted to explain this deeply is because I do not want people to naturally assume that the book is misguiding you, it’s not. I will have to explain further, that this book was written by the author’s continuous consultation with his intuition—It is entirely in question-answer form. He writes down a question in a paper and awaits the answers to form in his mind and he would invest no effort in altering whatever formed in his mind.
I experienced this many times—when I consulted a voice within me and I would weirdly be presented with an answer, very relevant to my question, astonishing in sudden appearance, that had remained dormant within me for ages, but I understand if you don’t believe any of this.
So wherein the Hitler-points are helpful is to help transcend words and see what REALLY is happening past any thought——it is a dance of cosmos, the Gods, the realm of pure absolute Love/ consciousness. This absolutely doesn’t state that you promote such atrocities. This portion of the novel is not to provide a different code of ethics about how to move about the world!
So, emotions and prejudices, likes-and-dislikes cloud truth--in the space of which nothing really counts! So, if I were a sole survivor of the Holocaust, my emotions---of hate, grief, anger and revenge--- would cloud away my understanding of truth, which is cosmically, there is no psychological or social judgements!
The book helped to make me aware of the fact that the whole of life is REALLY just a play and the only real work here on this planet is to discover who it is we really are. Ultimately, as stated by God, we have selected situations in our lives, at the time of birth, which will form the fertile grounds for rediscovering the truth of who it is we really are. This is also stated in book 1. Strangely this matches my life! So strange it kind of amazes me especially when I replay all and arrive at "today!"
The explanation of “Sex” given by God is one of the most beautiful expressions I have ever read my entire life, with regards to the topic of "Sex". It is absolutely ghastly that we were made to feel ashamed around a topic like that all our lives. Nonsense! You have to read this part. You won’t regret it!
The explanations about how schools disregards the natural tendencies of an individual and looking past diverse ways in expression every child naturally comes to reveal, was one of the painful realisations I had ever encountered with. It had given me a headache because I could finally yank out the truth behind the fact that I never quite fit into any institution as much, and that I was rejected by these institutions simply because they operated in a paradigm I never fit in! This was a very sad discovery for me when I first had it! But it granted me enormous hope for life——to no longer operate in the garb of my “8th grade trophies”
The book didn’t fully help me understand the meaning of “Oneness” although conceptually it did. This book was my firsthand experience of “Oneness” as a theory. But I experienced “oneness” for real only after following Mooji baba’s Satsang, and through my consistent personal self-inquiry of my inner voice. I recommend these for people who are seeking to experience truth and are hungry for it for real-time experience, but for conceptual understanding , “Converstions With God” is a very good start!
There is a lot more the book has to offer. I am warning you, if you don’t posses a striking ability to put a question mark on every prejudice you bear in your mind, on every concept you hold dear…..if you cannot put aside your cherished beliefs and attach a question mark on each of them…..this book can and will overwhelm you!
So, I will recommend this book for only those who are able to question every damn thing in their head (all their own judgements of people, your own likes and dislikes), and are able to question everybody in their lives! If you are in a place of —— “I really don’t know anything” (as I was when I read it, and which is really the case in truth), you are ready for the book!
We really KNOW nothing---for everything we KNOW has only been picked up in life! :)
A quote from the Untethered Soul beautifully matches all this talk about the book---> " “If you want to be happy, you have to let go of the part of you that wants to create melodrama. This is the part that thinks there’s a reason not to be happy. You have to transcend the personal, and as you do, you will naturally awaken to the higher aspects of your being. In the end, enjoying life’s experiences is the only rational thing to do. You’re sitting on a planet spinning around in the middle of absolutely nowhere. Go ahead, take a look at reality. You’re floating in empty space in a universe that goes on forever. If you have to be here, at least be happy and enjoy the experience. You’re going to die anyway. Things are going to happen anyway. Why shouldn’t you be happy? You gain nothing by being bothered by life’s events. It doesn’t change the world; you just suffer. There’s always going to be something that can bother you, if you let it.”
Although the author is different, the meanings come preciously close when regarded with precision!
The power of this book, as do the rest, lies in revealing truth to mankind. Truth is beyond words, morales, psychological and social judgements! If you desire only truth and not regular mundane desires that most humans seek, you are fit for this book!
November 8, 2020
Like the other volumes, this is a great book.
I’ll just cite or comment on a few interesting or controversial things God says.
God tells us that we “have always been, are now, and always will be”. He created everything and all of us “ALL AT ONCE, and All of It exists right now”. The concept of old souls has nothing to do with these actually being “older” than others. It has to do with the level of awareness of a particular soul.
We are all parts of What Is. “Each part has the consciousness of the Whole embedded within it.”
“’Awareness’ is the experience of that consciousness being awakened. The individual aspect of the All becomes aware of itself.”
There is no evil! We are perfect just as we are.
God is everywhere, and therefore nowhere in particular. He is NOW HERE.
He states that “no persons do anything inappropriate, given their model of the world”.
He tells us “Hitler went to heaven”. When Neale objects, God explains that Hell does not exist. (Though I know from many who have had NDEs, and from Robert Monroe’s three books, that a sort of Hell does in fact exist; it differs only in that we can always leave and go to a higher and better place if we ask for help from God or the angels. Also, God argues that there is no right or wrong in the universe.
It was God’s will that Hitler have free choice to do what he wanted, but not His will that he be punished “unceasingly, unendingly”.
If we don’t make the choices God wants us to make, and thus are punished, then our choices are not free.
God states: “There is no ‘bad’ where I Am, And there is no Evil. There is only the All of Everything. The Oneness. And the Awareness, the Experience, of that.”
“ ---- the purpose of Life is not to please God. The purpose of Life is to know and to recreate Who You Are.”
Hitler’s actions were the action of an unevolved being and mistakes are not punishable by condemnation but dealt with by providing “the chance for correction, for evolution”.
That all sounds very sensible to me.
He argues that though Hitler ordered the killing of millions of people, this was not “wrong”, since so-called “death” is the greatest thing that could happen to anyone.
“at the moment of your death you will realize the greatest freedom, the greatest peace, the greatest joy, and the greatest love you have ever known.”
Neale argues that nonetheless our lives here should not be ended against our will. We come here to learn something and our lives should not be “cut short by some maniacal hoodlum with insane ideas”.
God informs us that we are not here to learn anything, life is not a school and we came not to learn but to remember.
Everything occurring in the universe is occurring perfectly. “God hasn’t made a mistake in a very long time.” Ha, ha, I wonder what that mistake was.
God and Neale have a conversation about the Catholic Church, about how committing venial sins sent one to Purgatory and how an unbaptized child went to Limbo. We are regaled with what is pointed out about the ridiculousness of the injunctions of the Catholic Church.
Hitler arose out of our collective consciousness, and could not have existed without it. The consciousness of separation is what creates the Christ Experience.
“God’s love and ---compassion --- are large enough to include the most heinous crime and --- criminal.”
There is no time. All events occur at once. There is only One Moment.
Our soul always was, always is, and always will be.
We are able to divide our Self into as many different “selves” as we choose.
We are also living “past lives” right now as well.
Though God tells us that the universe has always existed, as have we ourselves, at one point he states: “There will be another so-called Big Bang, and another universe will be born”. This is a contradiction!
God points out that our schools teach knowledge, whereas they should be teaching wisdom.
He concedes that terrible things occur but states that there is perfection in everything, and we should strive to see this perfection. “In the midst of the greatest tragedy, see the glory of the process”.
He tells us, “Through you, I experience being Who and What I Am”.
There is no such thing as the Ten Commandments. He requires nothing of us.
He reminds us that no-one does anything evil, given his model of the world. All are doing the best they can at any given moment. Here I would have liked Neale to ask God about serial killers and how it is that they feel they are doing the best they can, since I think He might have elucidated a few things for us, better proved his point. How is it that they believe they are doing good?
We cannot change the mess the world is in without a change of consciousness. He repeats: “You must stop seeing God as separate from you, and you as separate from each other”.
“Love gives all and requires nothing.”
“Live the law of Love now and forevermore. Give everything, require nothing,”
“Make everything in your life an outpouring of love.”
We learn that when someone enters our life unexpectedly, we should look for the gift that person has come to receive from us.
God advocates a one-world government: though I admit I have only heard about the potential evils of such, since that would be the means by which the Cabal could totally control us.
God doesn’t mention the evil Cabal (but of course there is no evil). And he praises the late George Bush (the father) to the skies with no mention of his evil proclivities (but then there’s no evil).
I get the distinct impression that God’s statements are fully coloured by the extent of Neale´s knowledge.
And the book was published in 1997, thus much of what we now know was not available to Neale.
This book contains much, much more than I have touched on and, like the other CWG books, is well worth reading; in fact I consider it to be important, one that everyone should read.
I’ll just cite or comment on a few interesting or controversial things God says.
God tells us that we “have always been, are now, and always will be”. He created everything and all of us “ALL AT ONCE, and All of It exists right now”. The concept of old souls has nothing to do with these actually being “older” than others. It has to do with the level of awareness of a particular soul.
We are all parts of What Is. “Each part has the consciousness of the Whole embedded within it.”
“’Awareness’ is the experience of that consciousness being awakened. The individual aspect of the All becomes aware of itself.”
There is no evil! We are perfect just as we are.
God is everywhere, and therefore nowhere in particular. He is NOW HERE.
He states that “no persons do anything inappropriate, given their model of the world”.
He tells us “Hitler went to heaven”. When Neale objects, God explains that Hell does not exist. (Though I know from many who have had NDEs, and from Robert Monroe’s three books, that a sort of Hell does in fact exist; it differs only in that we can always leave and go to a higher and better place if we ask for help from God or the angels. Also, God argues that there is no right or wrong in the universe.
It was God’s will that Hitler have free choice to do what he wanted, but not His will that he be punished “unceasingly, unendingly”.
If we don’t make the choices God wants us to make, and thus are punished, then our choices are not free.
God states: “There is no ‘bad’ where I Am, And there is no Evil. There is only the All of Everything. The Oneness. And the Awareness, the Experience, of that.”
“ ---- the purpose of Life is not to please God. The purpose of Life is to know and to recreate Who You Are.”
Hitler’s actions were the action of an unevolved being and mistakes are not punishable by condemnation but dealt with by providing “the chance for correction, for evolution”.
That all sounds very sensible to me.
He argues that though Hitler ordered the killing of millions of people, this was not “wrong”, since so-called “death” is the greatest thing that could happen to anyone.
“at the moment of your death you will realize the greatest freedom, the greatest peace, the greatest joy, and the greatest love you have ever known.”
Neale argues that nonetheless our lives here should not be ended against our will. We come here to learn something and our lives should not be “cut short by some maniacal hoodlum with insane ideas”.
God informs us that we are not here to learn anything, life is not a school and we came not to learn but to remember.
Everything occurring in the universe is occurring perfectly. “God hasn’t made a mistake in a very long time.” Ha, ha, I wonder what that mistake was.
God and Neale have a conversation about the Catholic Church, about how committing venial sins sent one to Purgatory and how an unbaptized child went to Limbo. We are regaled with what is pointed out about the ridiculousness of the injunctions of the Catholic Church.
Hitler arose out of our collective consciousness, and could not have existed without it. The consciousness of separation is what creates the Christ Experience.
“God’s love and ---compassion --- are large enough to include the most heinous crime and --- criminal.”
There is no time. All events occur at once. There is only One Moment.
Our soul always was, always is, and always will be.
We are able to divide our Self into as many different “selves” as we choose.
We are also living “past lives” right now as well.
Though God tells us that the universe has always existed, as have we ourselves, at one point he states: “There will be another so-called Big Bang, and another universe will be born”. This is a contradiction!
God points out that our schools teach knowledge, whereas they should be teaching wisdom.
He concedes that terrible things occur but states that there is perfection in everything, and we should strive to see this perfection. “In the midst of the greatest tragedy, see the glory of the process”.
He tells us, “Through you, I experience being Who and What I Am”.
There is no such thing as the Ten Commandments. He requires nothing of us.
He reminds us that no-one does anything evil, given his model of the world. All are doing the best they can at any given moment. Here I would have liked Neale to ask God about serial killers and how it is that they feel they are doing the best they can, since I think He might have elucidated a few things for us, better proved his point. How is it that they believe they are doing good?
We cannot change the mess the world is in without a change of consciousness. He repeats: “You must stop seeing God as separate from you, and you as separate from each other”.
“Love gives all and requires nothing.”
“Live the law of Love now and forevermore. Give everything, require nothing,”
“Make everything in your life an outpouring of love.”
We learn that when someone enters our life unexpectedly, we should look for the gift that person has come to receive from us.
God advocates a one-world government: though I admit I have only heard about the potential evils of such, since that would be the means by which the Cabal could totally control us.
God doesn’t mention the evil Cabal (but of course there is no evil). And he praises the late George Bush (the father) to the skies with no mention of his evil proclivities (but then there’s no evil).
I get the distinct impression that God’s statements are fully coloured by the extent of Neale´s knowledge.
And the book was published in 1997, thus much of what we now know was not available to Neale.
This book contains much, much more than I have touched on and, like the other CWG books, is well worth reading; in fact I consider it to be important, one that everyone should read.
February 28, 2018
Interesting ideas, concepts.
It's been around 16 years since I've read the first volume, which did mean something to me at the time.
However, I feel this one was repetitive and had several contradictions, for instance ...
It was also too focused on the US reality. Convenient the author is from that country.
I guess my difficulty was that despite the perfection of some ideas, the way the message is given doesn't sound as much as a message from God or God inspired; it flt like this volume was just the author's notions being debated in dialogue format.
I hope the third (when I get to it) will return to what I experienced with book #1.
It's been around 16 years since I've read the first volume, which did mean something to me at the time.
However, I feel this one was repetitive and had several contradictions, for instance ...
It was also too focused on the US reality. Convenient the author is from that country.
I guess my difficulty was that despite the perfection of some ideas, the way the message is given doesn't sound as much as a message from God or God inspired; it flt like this volume was just the author's notions being debated in dialogue format.
I hope the third (when I get to it) will return to what I experienced with book #1.
July 8, 2012
If the author really believed he was talking to God why would he haggle over every little thing? This author has been caught in lies, do a search. I was really turned off when, in his second book, he told us that George H Bush was a great humanitarian. How can one converse with all that is and not be in awe?
April 5, 2015
This trilogy of books was pivotal for understanding that the universe really is non-judgemental. Meaning that you truly can "Ask And You Shall Receive".
i dont know weather Neale Donald Walsch was actually conversing with God, or just talking to himself. To me it doesn't matter because the insights he reveals are truly amazing!
One of the best books ive read!
i dont know weather Neale Donald Walsch was actually conversing with God, or just talking to himself. To me it doesn't matter because the insights he reveals are truly amazing!
One of the best books ive read!
December 16, 2012
1 “Go ahead and do what you really love to do! Do nothing else! You have so little time. How can you think of wasting a moment doing something for a living you don’t like to do? What kind of a living is that? That is not a living, that is a dying!”
2 “You are making a mockery of Me. You are saying that I, God, made inherently imperfect beings, then have demanded of them to be perfect, or face damnation. You are saying then that, somewhere several thousand years into the world’s experience, I relented, saying that from then on you didn’t necessarily have to be good, you simply had to feel bad when you were not being good, and accept as your savior the One Being who could always be perfect, thus satisfying My hunger for perfection. You are saying that My Son–who you call the One Perfect One–has saved you from your own imperfection–the imperfection that I gave you. In other words, God’s Son has saved you from what His Father did.”
3 “There is no coincidence, and nothing happens ‘by accident.’ Each event and adventure is called to your Self by your Self in order that you might create and experience Who You Really Are. All that is required is to know this. For you are the creator of your own reality, and life can show up in no other way for you than the way in which you think it will.”
4 “The purpose of a relationship is not to have another who might complete you; but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.”
5 “The laws are very simple: 1. Thought is creative. 2. Fear attracts like energy. 3. Love is all there is.” The only rules in the universe are simple.
6 “Heaven–as you call it–is nowhere. Let’s just put some space between the w and the h in that word and you’ll that heaven is now…here.”
7 “Know and understand that there will be challenges and difficult times. Don’t try to avoid them. Welcome them. Gratefully. Cultivate the technique of seeing all problems as opportunities. Opportunities to…be, an decide, Who You Really Are.”
8 “If you want guarantees in life, then you don’t want life. You want rehearsals for a script that’s already been written. Life by its nature cannot have guarantees, or its whole purpose is thwarted.”
9 “To live your life without expectation–without the need for specific results–that is freedom. That is Godliness.”
10 “Never resist anything. If you think that by your resistance you will eliminate it, think again. You only plant is more firmly in place. Have I not told you that all thought is creative?”
“Choose, but don’t want. Think ‘I choose success,’ not ‘I want success.’”
Whoops:
“There is nothing you cannot be, there is nothing you cannot do. There is nothing you cannot have.”
“The most rapid way to change a root thought, or sponsoring idea, is to reverse the thought-word-deed process. Do the deed that you want to have the new thought about. Then say the words that you want to have your new thought about. Do this often enough and you’ll train the mind to think a new way.”
Pg 185 If you knew exactly how much money each of you holds and the real earnings of all of your industries and corporations and each of their executives – as well as how each person and corporation is using the money it has – ((public disclosure of everyone’s paychecks, bank accounts, and tax returns from a cashless society tracked through a microchip in your hand instead BUT all THAT information is 100% public instead of Satanically held private. All money is public knowledge. ))
Nothing breeds appropriate behavior faster than exposure to the light of public scrutiny.
Can you imagine what corporations would do if they had to put two figures on every price tag – the price and their cost? ((but look what hassle WalMart is getting for lowering prices. People were complaining about high costs so they came along and lowered prices and then people complain about that. I guess people just complain about everything. If it’s bad, complain obviously. If it’s good, complain that it’s not good enough or even too good. See Allison Armstrong section on cross talk))
((But not exposing every little sideways thought someone might have, or the difficulty or weirdness of an individual’s personal growth ((until society can be supportive about this))
Pg 189 No one in enlightened societies is willing to get anything, or have anything, at someone else’s expense. ((envy and jealousy are not at someone else’s expense because they will have the same opportunities as you.))
equal opportunity NOT forced equality of life
The meeting of basic needs.
The opportunity to go higher.
God is constantly changing ((so hope for the Democrats))
pg 200 courageous leaders, who brought about change, each served only one term as president******
pg 204 equal opportunity, not equality in fact
1. The meeting of basic needs.
2. The opportunity to go higher. (growth)
pg 205 spiritual politics
world government based on the exact same way the U.S. Constitution runs. Three branches of government, congress: senate and house
You wouldn't even need hardly any military at this point. Although local countries have local militia
pg 211 God is for a flat tax (a stepping stone to voluntary donations)
pg 212 God is a republican. ((Also a conspiracy theorist))
pg 242
1. Abandon the concept of separation.
2. Adopt the concept of visibility.
You will nevermore have to use the device of forgetfulness in order to recreate your Self anew, but will use Separation knowingly, simply choosing to manifest as That Which Is Separate for a particular reason and a particular purpose.
save others from becoming permanently lost in their forgetfulness
That is hell, to become permanently lost in forgetfullness
sent a shepherd
pg 247 Return to spirituality. Forget about religion.
So what about the shepherds???
pg 249 Absolute power demands absolutely nothing.
Mental privacy, though, to still move through your own personal process.
Use all the military budget to fund education and help instead.
Opportunity provided (it's not now) not forced equality.
Everyone has the spiritual capacity to do something about their condition.
one world government
not mentioned: what about over population? handled like taxes being voluntary?
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 4, 2016
I hope this book chooses everyone. I hope everyone can atleast resonate with the words in this book- for they contain innate wisdom in themselves - wisdom of love and life, of God and time, of space and everything beyond, of man and woman and the relationship with all the multitude of beings on earth, of past and future, of everything being in the now- of consciousness and paradigm shift, of there nothing in the universe existing which has not existed already and of free will and unconditional love.
If anything above intrigues you, you should pick up this book. Thank you Neale Donald Walsh- I haven't been more excited to read series in a book as much as I have been while reading yours :)
If anything above intrigues you, you should pick up this book. Thank you Neale Donald Walsh- I haven't been more excited to read series in a book as much as I have been while reading yours :)
September 28, 2023
Autorul își închipuie în continuare că vorbește cu Dumnezeu. O răstălmăcire a tot ceea ce înseamnă spiritualitate în speranța de a ne dezvinovăți de păcat în ideea iubirii de sine.
De la subiecte precum politica și sexualitatea până la extratereștrii, se formulează unele idei care nu ar fi tocmai rele însă prezentate în acest context (ca și cum ar veni de la divinitate) le dă o notă absurdă.
De la subiecte precum politica și sexualitatea până la extratereștrii, se formulează unele idei care nu ar fi tocmai rele însă prezentate în acest context (ca și cum ar veni de la divinitate) le dă o notă absurdă.
October 25, 2023
جلد دومش هم تموم شد و در ستایش این کتاب میتونم از مولانای جانْ کمک بگیرم و به "تو ما باشی مَها ما تو، ندانم که مَنَم یا تو" بسنده کنم.
January 8, 2016
After all these thousands years of human history, the fact is, we have barely evolved at all. We still operate in a primitive "every man for himself" mentality-/ we plunder the earth, rape her resources, exploit her people, disenfranchise those who disagree with us for doing all of this. We have developed a lifestyle that is so selfish we cannot maintain it any other way--we must cut down millions of acres of trees, we must destroy miles of our protective ozone layer, we must pollute our rivers and streams.. We must have bigger and better-- we must exploit the least among us--or we cannot live at the top of the human scale-- unheard of and unnecessary luxury--then we must deny that we are doing any of this. Otherwise we couldn't live with ourselves.. We are #comfortablynumb more machine than man--we can't even follow simple bumper sticker wisdom that we post all over social media.. We've worked too hard- tough bananas to the future -- to our children's legacy-- we did what we had to do. After all it is every man for himself right? Wrong.
March 27, 2019
Crappy, communist, overly simplistic and a shi!!y experience to read kind of book.
October 9, 2024
This should be mandatory in schools.
September 7, 2021
Every bit as great as the first one. Loved every page of this book.
It is hands down the best spiritual themed book series I have ever read. It claims to give answers and it continues to do so. Usually you get a bunch of random “life advice”, but not here.
This book actually has answers to just about every question any human might have and more.
It’s certainly a read to approach with an open mind, and it is very logical in its approach without any of the usual “otherworldly mysteries”.
Prepare to be challenged, but if you listen, really listen, it will make a profound impact on your approach to life as this volume focuses on a larger picture, such as world politics, world issues, global warming and the human experience. I’m here for all of it.
Definitely going to grab the next one.
Roman
It is hands down the best spiritual themed book series I have ever read. It claims to give answers and it continues to do so. Usually you get a bunch of random “life advice”, but not here.
This book actually has answers to just about every question any human might have and more.
It’s certainly a read to approach with an open mind, and it is very logical in its approach without any of the usual “otherworldly mysteries”.
Prepare to be challenged, but if you listen, really listen, it will make a profound impact on your approach to life as this volume focuses on a larger picture, such as world politics, world issues, global warming and the human experience. I’m here for all of it.
Definitely going to grab the next one.
Roman
April 11, 2025
4.25 ⭐️
Nie skłamię, jeżeli powiem, że była to jedna z najmądrzejszych książek, jakie czytałem w życiu. Mocno wierzę w przedstawioną tu prawdę o świecie, ukazane w tej serii przemyślenia zawsze mnie zaskakują i skłaniają do refleksji. Z całego serca polecam <3 Czuję się o wiele bardziej świadomy i otwarty niż byłem przed przeczytaniem
Nie skłamię, jeżeli powiem, że była to jedna z najmądrzejszych książek, jakie czytałem w życiu. Mocno wierzę w przedstawioną tu prawdę o świecie, ukazane w tej serii przemyślenia zawsze mnie zaskakują i skłaniają do refleksji. Z całego serca polecam <3 Czuję się o wiele bardziej świadomy i otwarty niż byłem przed przeczytaniem
August 23, 2021
Knjiga jedan mi je ipak malo zanimljivija. Osim ako nije. 😉
September 4, 2024
3,5 ☆. The book is beautiful at its core, but not nearly as sharp and impactful as i remember its predecessor being.
With Conversations with God Neale Donald Walsch essentially publishes a long conversation with himself, reminding me of Jungian psychology. I understand that his God speaks from a place of certain truth, but the inavoidable incluence of Walsch' personal frame of reference does less for the book.This way, Conversations with God becomes "conversations with the underlying neo-christian idealism of a U.S. citizen". It was at points repetitive, self-contradictory and uninteresting.
Critique aside... the power of CWG lies not in itself as a novel, but in whatever sticks with- and has a positive influence on its reader. It has had a positive influence on me, stimulating ideas and confirming pieces of information I received elsewhere. Book 3 will surely land in my hands.
With Conversations with God Neale Donald Walsch essentially publishes a long conversation with himself, reminding me of Jungian psychology. I understand that his God speaks from a place of certain truth, but the inavoidable incluence of Walsch' personal frame of reference does less for the book.This way, Conversations with God becomes "conversations with the underlying neo-christian idealism of a U.S. citizen". It was at points repetitive, self-contradictory and uninteresting.
Critique aside... the power of CWG lies not in itself as a novel, but in whatever sticks with- and has a positive influence on its reader. It has had a positive influence on me, stimulating ideas and confirming pieces of information I received elsewhere. Book 3 will surely land in my hands.
September 23, 2019
It was an enjoyable read but less so than Book 1. The main reason for this is because Book 2 fails to accept reality as it is, and attempts to change it. If fails to accept others as they are, and says they are imperfect in their current ways. But a change in collective consciousness cannot be achieved without a change in individual consciousness, for the individual creates the collective. For this reason, I recommend Book 1 over Book 2.
This book collects some very insightful nuggets of wisdom. One of them is the fact that education should be focusing more on wisdom, rather than knowledge. We should not teach children what to think, but rather how to think. Another is the fact that there is a need for higher transparency and visibility in the flow of value of society. Many billionaires are hiding their wealth offshore, and this money could be used to help the poor.
Looking forward to reading Book 3.
Some excerpts I enjoyed:
-You can tell you are on your way to mastery when you see the gap closing between Willing and Experiencing.
-There is only one thing that is "not possible” for God, and that is for God to not be God. God cannot "not be.” Nor can God not be like Itself. God cannot "un-God” Itself. I am everywhere, and that’s all there is to it. And since I am everywhere, I am nowhere. And if I am NOWHERE, where am I? NOW HERE.
-moment of your death you will realize the greatest freedom, the greatest peace, the greatest joy, and the greatest love you have ever known.
-The inability to experience the suffering of another as one’s own is what allows such suffering to continue. Separation breeds indifference, false superiority. Unity produces compassion, genuine equality.
-Religion asks you to learn from the experience of others. Spirituality urges you to seek your own.
-It is only through the exercise of the greatest freedom that the greatest growth is achieved— or even possible. If all you are doing is following someone else’s rules, then you have not grown, you have obeyed.
-If you derive your life’s greatest happiness from experiences obtainable only in the Outside World—the physical world outside of yourself—you will never want to give up an ounce of all that you’ve piled up, as a person and a nation, to make you happy.
-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.
-Wisdom which comes from within is not nearly so easily discarded as wisdom which comes from another. You tend to hang on a lot longer to that which you’ve created than to that which you’ve been told
This book collects some very insightful nuggets of wisdom. One of them is the fact that education should be focusing more on wisdom, rather than knowledge. We should not teach children what to think, but rather how to think. Another is the fact that there is a need for higher transparency and visibility in the flow of value of society. Many billionaires are hiding their wealth offshore, and this money could be used to help the poor.
Looking forward to reading Book 3.
Some excerpts I enjoyed:
-You can tell you are on your way to mastery when you see the gap closing between Willing and Experiencing.
-There is only one thing that is "not possible” for God, and that is for God to not be God. God cannot "not be.” Nor can God not be like Itself. God cannot "un-God” Itself. I am everywhere, and that’s all there is to it. And since I am everywhere, I am nowhere. And if I am NOWHERE, where am I? NOW HERE.
-moment of your death you will realize the greatest freedom, the greatest peace, the greatest joy, and the greatest love you have ever known.
-The inability to experience the suffering of another as one’s own is what allows such suffering to continue. Separation breeds indifference, false superiority. Unity produces compassion, genuine equality.
-Religion asks you to learn from the experience of others. Spirituality urges you to seek your own.
-It is only through the exercise of the greatest freedom that the greatest growth is achieved— or even possible. If all you are doing is following someone else’s rules, then you have not grown, you have obeyed.
-If you derive your life’s greatest happiness from experiences obtainable only in the Outside World—the physical world outside of yourself—you will never want to give up an ounce of all that you’ve piled up, as a person and a nation, to make you happy.
-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.
-Wisdom which comes from within is not nearly so easily discarded as wisdom which comes from another. You tend to hang on a lot longer to that which you’ve created than to that which you’ve been told
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September 5, 2018„Sve, sve što je ikada bilo, što jeste i što će ikada biti postoji upravo sada. I tako, sve što jeste – JESTE. Ali, sve što jeste stalno se menja, jer život je neprekidni proces stvaranja. Stoga, na vrlo stvarni način, to što JESTE – NIJE. JESTE nikada nije isto, što znači da JESTE NIJE.”
Vala, ako posle ove knjige ne postanem neka sektašica, ništa nisam uradila! 😂 Šalim se.
Knjiga koja predočava društvene, ekonomske, religijske i političke probleme čovečanstva i umesto da kritikuje i iznosi svoje pesimistične poglede na budućnost, ona pred čitaoce iznosi Novi svetski poredak (malo me je podsetilo na Ekarta Tola koji govori o buđenju nove svesti) ; ona jednostavno promatra, a ništa ne savetuje, niti nameće; ona nudi rešenje za problem, a ne problem za svako rešenje. Kolektivnu svest i stvarnost svela je na čisto ljudske, individualne okvire i filosofska razmatranja o duhovnosti našeg bića (mislim da se Parmenid okretao u grobu 😂). Pišem o njoj kao da je živa, jer to zaista jeste: sama je sebe prouzrokovala i iznela na svetlost dana, sama je sebe napisala i objavila. U vezi sa tim, ovo je napredno štivo koje se ne libi da nas prodrma i dovede u pitanje sva naša ubeđenja, koja smo godinama gajili, i učenja koja su nam nametnuta počevši od porodice. Jednom rečju, novo jevanđelje. Inovativno, avangardno i beskompromisno.
U moj život je ušla „slučajno”, neplanirano, bez prethodne pripreme. Ne mogoh da nađem prvi deo, pa mi je ovo došlo kao zamena. U svakom slučaju, preporučujem svima koji su radoznali, otvoreni za nova saznanja i razbijanje predrasuda ironijom božanske dihotomije (pa ko je još očekivao da će Bog biti šaljivdžija! 😉) , razuveravanje, za sve one koji su spremni da se možda osećaju nelagodno u nekim trenucima, za sve koji žele da čuju samo istinu direktno od Izvora koji je u svima nama, zato nije ni čudo što su mnogi čitaoci – pa među njima i ja – ovo naslućivali i u potpunosti rezonirali sa „jednim neobičnim dijalogom” čitajući ga.
Vala, ako posle ove knjige ne postanem neka sektašica, ništa nisam uradila! 😂 Šalim se.
Knjiga koja predočava društvene, ekonomske, religijske i političke probleme čovečanstva i umesto da kritikuje i iznosi svoje pesimistične poglede na budućnost, ona pred čitaoce iznosi Novi svetski poredak (malo me je podsetilo na Ekarta Tola koji govori o buđenju nove svesti) ; ona jednostavno promatra, a ništa ne savetuje, niti nameće; ona nudi rešenje za problem, a ne problem za svako rešenje. Kolektivnu svest i stvarnost svela je na čisto ljudske, individualne okvire i filosofska razmatranja o duhovnosti našeg bića (mislim da se Parmenid okretao u grobu 😂). Pišem o njoj kao da je živa, jer to zaista jeste: sama je sebe prouzrokovala i iznela na svetlost dana, sama je sebe napisala i objavila. U vezi sa tim, ovo je napredno štivo koje se ne libi da nas prodrma i dovede u pitanje sva naša ubeđenja, koja smo godinama gajili, i učenja koja su nam nametnuta počevši od porodice. Jednom rečju, novo jevanđelje. Inovativno, avangardno i beskompromisno.
U moj život je ušla „slučajno”, neplanirano, bez prethodne pripreme. Ne mogoh da nađem prvi deo, pa mi je ovo došlo kao zamena. U svakom slučaju, preporučujem svima koji su radoznali, otvoreni za nova saznanja i razbijanje predrasuda ironijom božanske dihotomije (pa ko je još očekivao da će Bog biti šaljivdžija! 😉) , razuveravanje, za sve one koji su spremni da se možda osećaju nelagodno u nekim trenucima, za sve koji žele da čuju samo istinu direktno od Izvora koji je u svima nama, zato nije ni čudo što su mnogi čitaoci – pa među njima i ja – ovo naslućivali i u potpunosti rezonirali sa „jednim neobičnim dijalogom” čitajući ga.
May 2, 2015
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This book was excellent. It teaches you to embrace everything good in the world.
The first book in the series focused on individual consciousness, the second global consciousness. The book brings up very good points. Neale and God go back and forth discussing all of our global crisis. which really makes for an interesting read. I promise you, you won't be bored. A New World order is mentioned, as well as the poor, the hungry, and the homeless. They dive into deep issues concerning our world's financial system, political spectrum, a lot of which has to do with the "haves" and the "have-nots." I will say that this book was harder to get through than the first one, seeing how the topic strays from how to live in your own personal life, to global issues that lost me a few times. Nevertheless, this book opens your eyes to see the world in a different view----a world we should all be striving for as caring human beings. Besides, I'm all for a belief system that doesn't tell me I'm going straight into the internal fire, lost forever in total damnation, because I'm in love with someone of the same sex. I also like a belief system that doesn't tell me God is all loving and then tells me that we're all sinful, wicked begins undeserving of his kingdom.
Full review on husbandandhusband.net
This book was excellent. It teaches you to embrace everything good in the world.
The first book in the series focused on individual consciousness, the second global consciousness. The book brings up very good points. Neale and God go back and forth discussing all of our global crisis. which really makes for an interesting read. I promise you, you won't be bored. A New World order is mentioned, as well as the poor, the hungry, and the homeless. They dive into deep issues concerning our world's financial system, political spectrum, a lot of which has to do with the "haves" and the "have-nots." I will say that this book was harder to get through than the first one, seeing how the topic strays from how to live in your own personal life, to global issues that lost me a few times. Nevertheless, this book opens your eyes to see the world in a different view----a world we should all be striving for as caring human beings. Besides, I'm all for a belief system that doesn't tell me I'm going straight into the internal fire, lost forever in total damnation, because I'm in love with someone of the same sex. I also like a belief system that doesn't tell me God is all loving and then tells me that we're all sinful, wicked begins undeserving of his kingdom.
Full review on husbandandhusband.net
October 8, 2017
So dissappointing. From a God that just observes, to a god instructing how politics, government and taxes "should" be. I started this series as a fresh, better interpretation of the Bible. However, this book itself had so manu contradictions, that it is now "like the Bible"to me, a book filled with things that can't possibly be true, for they are in contradiction of themselves.
Two stars because amidst all the disappoint there were a few good nuggets, so next time I will read with a highlighter, as now I don't remember what the good things were. .
This book would be so much more true, if Walsch would have just titled it "What if..." and leaveout all the stuff about it being from god instead of his own imaginings, yada yada.
Recommended for those who are mentally strong enough to sift through the yuck and yum of this book and be enlightened, not dismayed and dissapointed.
4 mentaly strong enuf 2 sift thru yuck/yum of book, be enlightened, not dismayed and disapointed.
Two stars because amidst all the disappoint there were a few good nuggets, so next time I will read with a highlighter, as now I don't remember what the good things were. .
This book would be so much more true, if Walsch would have just titled it "What if..." and leaveout all the stuff about it being from god instead of his own imaginings, yada yada.
Recommended for those who are mentally strong enough to sift through the yuck and yum of this book and be enlightened, not dismayed and dissapointed.
4 mentaly strong enuf 2 sift thru yuck/yum of book, be enlightened, not dismayed and disapointed.
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