Neale Donald Walsch - Neale Donald Walsch On Abundance And Right Livelihood

Neale Donald Walsch lives with his wife, Nancy, in southern Oregon. Together, they have formed ReCreation, a nonprofit foundation for personal growth and spiritual understanding with the goal of giving people back to themselves. Walsch lectures and hosts workshops throughout the world to support and spread the messages contained in Conversations with God.

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Also available in the Applications for Living series:

Neale Donald Walsch on Holistic Living
and Neale Donald Walsch on Relationships.

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Abundance and Right Livelihood

Well, nice to see you all here. Good morning, everybody. Good morning, my darling. That's my wife. Good morning. I don't call everybody in the audience my darling. But I could be tempted to.

Well, I suppose you wonder why I called this meeting. And so do I. I'd like to start off our time together this morning just chatting a little bit about what happened to me in my life. I wanted to kind of roll into some of the experiences that I've had over the last six or eight years, bring you up to speed and up to date, and let you know what that was like for me. And we can go from there, and begin talking about some of the specific topics that I hope we have a chance to explore here together.

How nice of you to choose to be in the room with me on this day. And how nice of you to choose to be on the planet with me at this time. This is a very, very important time. People have said that for centuries, and they've always meant it. But I'm not sure it's always been quite as true as it is right now.

We're moving into a period of time on this planet when the decisions and choices we make will produce a critical impact and an extraordinary effect on the lives that we are collectively creating. So, it's really important that we come together in groups like this, groups large and small, and share our reality, share our understanding, become even more clear about what it is that we hold in common. And when we find that there are differences between us, find a way to celebrate those differences. Because if we don't learn how to celebrate our differences, we're not going to be able to make a difference on this planet. And you came here to make a difference. That's why you came to this body, at this time. That's why you came to this particular planet at this particular moment. Whether you know it or not, you came here with a very big agenda. And for most people, if you're like me, the agenda is much larger than you might originally have thought or imagined. I'm going to repeat that. I said: For most people, if you're like me, the agenda is much larger than you might originally have thought or imagined.

To begin with, your life has nothing to do with you. And that might change your whole idea about what you're doing here. And your life has nothing to do with your body. That also might change your whole idea about what you're doing here. Your life has to do with the agenda that has been set for you by you, by that part of you that we've come to call, in our language, your soul.

And it has been my observation that very few people have spent a lot of time during this particular life paying attention to the agenda of their soul. I know that I haven't. Most of my life, I paid attention to the agenda of my ego, of my mind, of my bodyin other words, of that part of me that I thought that I really was. And I paid very little attention to the agenda of my soul, to the real reason that I'm here. And yet, those of us who begin to pay attention to the real reason that we're here begin to make an extraordinary impact on the worldan impact beyond anything that you might have imagined possible. Suddenly you find yourself at aat a precipice, at the edge. And it is very much, as Apollinaire once put it, Come to the edge.

We can't. We're afraid.

Come to the edge.

We can't. We'll fall.

Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.

There are a few of us, a very few of us, who are now ready to fly, who are ready to go, as Gene [Roddenberry] said, to places where no human has gone beforewho are really ready to fly now, and to take all those whose lives they touch with them, on a flight of fancy that will truly change the world. And in these days and times, you will have an opportunity to decide whether you are one of those select few; selected, I might add, by yourself, not by anyone else. This is a self-selecting process. You'll wake up one day and look in the mirror, and say, I select me. I choose me. I'm it. It's a game of tag, with only one player. I'm it.

It is very much like a children's game, you know. It is very much like a children's game, played with the abandon and with the joy of children who play togetherexcept in this game, there is only one player. And now you get to quit playing hide and seek, and you get to start playing tag. I'm it. You're it. Thank you very much.

So, in these days and times, you get to choose yourself; or not, as you wish. As you wish. But if you choose yourself to play in this particular game, you'll find that you have caused yourself to set aside all of your prior beliefs, understandings, thoughts, and ideas about what it is that you are doing here, about why you brought yourself to your body at this time and in this place. You'll change everything you ever thought about that. And you'll find that your life, indeed, will have nothing to do with you, or with your body.

And yet the irony is that, in the moment that you decide and declare that your life has nothing to do with you or your body, everything you ever sought, hungered for, struggled to obtain for yourself and for your body will come to you, automatically. And you won't even care. Because you will no longer need it. You will enjoy it, for sure. But you will no longer need it. And the struggle will at last be over.

But it will have just begun for the hundreds and the thousands and, maybe, the millions of people whose lives you will touch. And you will see them every daypeople for whom the struggle really has just begun, who are taking those first few steps on the journey home. And they, like you, will reach out a hand, figuratively, if not literally, and sometimes even quite literally. And they'll look around them, and hope to find someone who will reach a hand back, who will say, Come, follow me; who will