Neale Donald Walsch - Communion with God

Communion with God

Books by Neale Donald Walsch

CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD, BOOK 1

CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD, BOOK 2

CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD, BOOK 3

CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD , BOOK 1 GUIDEBOOK

MEDITATIONS FROM CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD , BOOK 1

MEDITATIONS FROM CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD , BOOK 2: A PERSONAL JOURNAL

THE LITTLE SOUL AND THE SUN

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD

NEALE DONALD WALSCH ON RELATIONSHIPS

NEALE DONALD WALSCH ON ABUNDANCE AND RIGHT LIVELIHOOD

NEALE DONALD WALSCH ON HOLISTIC LIVING

FRIENDSHIP WITH GOD , AN UNCOMMON DIALOGUE

COMMUNION WITH GOD

THE WEDDING VOWS FROM CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD

(with Nancy Fleming-Walsch)

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Communion with God

Neale Donald Walsch

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Copyright 2000 by Neale Donald Walsch.

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Berkley ISBN: 978-1-101-65946-5

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Walsch, Neale Donald.

Communion with God / Neale Donald Walsch.

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To God,

with love

Welcome to this book.

I would like you to consider something extraordinary.

I would like you to consider the possibility that this book was created just for you.

If you can accept that construction, I believe you are about to have one of the most powerful experiences of your life.

Now I would like you to consider something even more extraordinary.

I would like you to consider the possibility that this book was created for you by you.

If you can imagine a world in which nothing is happening to you, and everything is happening through you, you will have gotten the message that you intended to send to yourself here within seven sentences.

You cant ask a book to deliver faster than that.

...

Welcome to this moment.

You are well come here, for this moment was designed by you to bring you to the blessed experience you are about to have.

You have sought the answers to lifes most meaningful questions, and you have sought them repeatedly, earnestly, and sincerely, or you would not be here.

This search has been going on inside of you, whether you have made it a major part of your exterior life or not; it is what has caused you to pick up this book.

With your understanding of that, you have unraveled one of lifes biggest mysteries: why things happen the way they do.

All of this in fourteen sentences.

...

Welcome to this meeting with the Creator.

It is a meeting which you could not have avoided. All people meet with the Creator. It is not a question of whether but of when.

People of earnestness, seeking truth, experience the meeting sooner rather than later. Honesty is a magnet. It attracts Life. And Life is just another word for God.

The person who honestly seeks, honestly receives. Life will not lie to itself.

That is how it has come to pass that you have arrived here, in front of these words. You have placed yourself here, and it has not been by accident. Carefully consider how you got here and you will see that.

Do you believe in the process of Divine Inspiration? I do. I believe in it for you, and I believe in it for me.

Some people dont like it when another says that theyve been inspired by God. As I see it, there are several reasons for this.

First, most people dont think they have ever been inspired by God, at least not in the most immediate waythat is, through direct communicationand therefore anyone who makes such a claim is immediately suspect.

Second, claiming that God is ones inspiration appears to be a bit arrogant, implying that the inspiration may not be argued with, nor found lacking in any way, given its origin.

Third, many of those who have claimed Divine Inspiration have not been the easiest people to live withwitness Mozart, Rembrandt, Michelangelo, or any one of a number of popes, as well as countless others who have done some pretty crazy things in the name of God.

Finally, we have made those whom we do believe have been directly inspired by God into such holy men and women that we dont quite know how to deal with them, or how to interact with them in a normal way. Simply put, as wonderful as they are, they can make us uncomfortable.

So were pretty skittish about this God-is-my-source thing. And, perhaps rightly, we should be. We dont want to swallow whole everything that others tell us, simply because they claim to carry a message from the Most High.

But how can we know for sure what is Divine Inspiration and what is not? How can we be certain who is speaking eternal truth?

Ah, that is the great question. But here is the great secret. We do not have to know. All we have to know is our truth, not someone elses. When we understand this, we understand everything. We understand that what others are saying doesnt have to be The Truth; it only has to lead us to our own. And it will do that. It cannot help but do that, eventually. All things lead us to our innermost truth. That is their purpose.

Indeed, that is the purpose of Life itself.

Life is truth, revealing Itself to Itself.

God is Life, revealing Itself to Itself.

You could not stop this process if you wanted to. But you can speed it up.

That is what you are doing here.

That is why you have brought yourself to this book.

This book does not claim to be The Truth. It is intended to guide you to your own innermost wisdom. It is not necessary for you to agree with its contents for it to do that. In fact, agreeing or not agreeing will be irrelevant. If you agree, it will be because you see in this book your own wisdom. If you disagree, it will be because you do not see your own wisdom. In either case, you will have been led back to your own wisdom.

So thank yourself for this book, because it has already brought you back to clarity about one major point: The highest authority lies within you.

This is so because each of us has a direct connection to the Divine.

Each of us has the ability to access eternal wisdom. Indeed, I believe that God is inspiring all of us, all of the time. And while all of us have had this experience, some of us have chosen to call it something else: