Neale Donald Walsch - Happier Than God: Turn Ordinary Life into an Extraordinary Experience

Copyright 2008 by Neale Donald Walsch

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Formerly distributed by Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN: 978-1-57174-580-4

Library of Congress Control Number: 2011920472

ISBN: 978-1-4019-3366-1
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God says for me to tell you this:

Nothing needs fixing;
everything desires A Celebration.
You were made to bend
so that you could discover
all of the many Miracles
at your feet.
You were made to stretch
so that you could find
Your Own Beautiful Face of Heaven
just above
all that you think you must shoulder.

When I appeal to God
to speak to me,
I am feeling just as small
and alone
as you are.
But this is when,
for no good reason at all,
I begin to Shine.

(Begin to Shine - 2007 m. Claire)

Let us begin with a word of gratitude.

Thank you, God. Thank you for this book and for this
life and for the wonder of this moment. Thank you
for everything that has ever happened to me, is
happening now, and ever will happen. For all of it
has produced the perfection of this next breath and the
glory of Who I Am now going to be.

Good. Now, on the inside cover, write todays date. You will want to remember it, for you are about to be given a formula for all of life that will change everything in your day-to-day experience.

Unless it does not.

And this is the day on which you will make that decision

Where is Your Heart Leading You?

You were born with unique, undeniable gifts. In your quietest moments, you can feel them yearning to awaken.
You long to express them and show the world what youre truly capable of.

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Youre Now Witnessing an
Extraordinary Mechanism

L ife was meant to be happy.

Do you believe that?

Its true. I know it doesnt seem like it when you look around, but its true. Life was meant to be happy.

You were meant to be happy. And if you are happy, you were meant to be happier. Even if youre very happy, you can be even happier.

How happy? Just how happy can you be? Well you can be happier than God.

I once heard a lady describing a gentleman who was very wealthy. She said, Hes got more money than God! Thats how I mean this. I mean to use the ultimate superlative.

I also mean the words I have used literally. I mean just what the words say. Which brings up a lot of questions. Does this mean that God even experiences the thing called happiness? (Yes.) Does that mean that God experiences unhappiness? (No.) If we can be happier than God, does that mean that we are separate from God? (No.) Then how is this possible?

Well, as it happens there is a formula by which you can be happier than God. All mystics have known it, most teachers of mystical wisdom have known it, some contemporary spiritual messengers know it, but its become, through the centuries, sort of a mystery formula because its not talked about very much. Not very much at all.

Why? Simple. Very few of the folks to whom spiritual teachers and messengers might be talking have been able to believe what the mystery formula is said to be able to produce. And when you talk about things that no one believes, you can become very unpopular.

So even today, in what is supposed to be a time of intellectual and spiritual enlightenment, not many teachers and spiritual messengers reveal this formula, even if they know it. Or if they are talking about it, they are talking about only half of it. Most of them are keeping the other half, the most breathtaking part of this formula, under wraps. So what we have here is an amazing truth, but you dont know the half of it.

What good is a truth if its not fully revealed? None at all, of course. In fact, only half a truth can be misleading. It can even be dangerous. So were going to speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth here. Well start with a look at why youre holding this book, and when we finish, well have described an extraordinary mechanism.

Okay? Good. Here goes.

Ask yourself why you picked up this book.

Never mind. Ill tell you. You picked up this book on an impulse.

And where did that impulse come from?

You. It came from you.

Why? Why did the impulse originate in you? What caused that to happen? And from what part of you did it come?

Those answers take up much of this bookand theyre pretty darned exciting. But for now, lets move to an even larger question: How is it that this book just happened to be hereright