New Spirituality and Religion (Part 1)

The New Spirituality will never condemn traditional religion, but seek always to include it in the process by which divine truth continues to be revealed.

There are far too many treasures in your religious traditions to abandon them. The future of humanity with regard to religion is not about desertion, but dissection, not about rejection, but rejuvenation.

What humans will do in the years just immediately ahead is begin to dissect their religions, looking at them closely, exploring them piece by piece, examining them doctrine by doctrine, to see what makes sense and what doesn’t make sense, what is functional and what is dysfunctional, what works and what doesn’t work in tomorrow’s world.

Tomorrow’s God
Neale Donald Walsch
Pages 216-217

It Is Insanity

Yours is a culture that has long used physical pain as a punishment for unwanted behavior not only in children, but in adults. You actually kill people to get people to stop killing people.

It is insanity to use the energy that created a problem to seek to solve the problem.

It is insanity to repeat the behaviors you want to stop in order to stop them.

It is insanity to model behaviors all over your society that you say you do not want your offspring to copy.

And the highest insanity is pretending that none of this is happening, then wondering why your children are acting insane.

Friendship With God
Neale Donald Walsch
Pages 129-130

New Spirituality and Religion (Part 2)

Then they will rejuvenate those traditions, gently releasing what is no longer beneficial, and adding new insights, new ideas, and new truths, born of the new awareness and the expanded consciousness that will be the basis of the New Spirituality.

NDW: So religion will not disappear from the face of the earth.

On the contrary, it will be more ubiquitous than ever. But gone will be the teachings of an angry, jealous, punishing Deity. Gone will be the moral justifications for vengeance and retribution. Gone will be the doctrines of exclusivity and “betterness” that have cast their shadow across the face of many religions in the past.

And alongside religion will stand a new form of human expression of the impulse toward the Divine, an expression that will not be rooted in codified texts and teachings, but in the moment-to-moment experience of each person sincerely seeking God.

Tomorrow’s God
Neale Donald Walsch
Page 217

Can Fear Express Love?

In its highest form, yes. Everything expresses love, when the expression is in its highest form.

Does the parent who saves the child from being killed in traffic express fear, or love?

NDW: Well, both, I suppose. Fear for the child’s life, and love - enough to risk one’s own life to save the child.

Precisely. And so here we see that fear in its highest form becomes love . . . IS love . . . expressed as fear.

Similarly, moving up the scale of natural emotions, grief, anger, and envy are all some form of fear, which, in turn, is some form of love.

Conversations With God, Book 3
Neale Donald Walsch
Page 24

Sexuality

“The hypocrisy around the subject of sexuality is huge. Early on, there were others who were a lot more interested in you satisfying what made them feel good than in satisfying what made you feel good. There were so many things that you felt inclined to go this way, that you were forced to go that way, that at an early age, you made a conscious decision that if it felt good, it was wrong. And if it felt wrong, it was probably right.”

Ester & Jerry Hicks

The Freedom to Feel Wholeness (Part 2)

Other cultures, by contrast, consider the freedom to feel that wholeness to be the foremost responsibility we have as human beings. And, sure, we know intellectually that the world is more than a random assemblage of multiple and even disparate parts; but knowing that the world is ultimately a unity is not to be confused with the freedom to feel and live within its unity.

Once we have lost our freedom to feel the world’s unbroken wholeness, of course, we lose the freedom to feel the self as a whole. We lose the kind of creativity that only wholeness can support. We also, obviously, lose our ability to be present with the world’s fundamental reality, as well as with the fundamental truth of our own lives, which lies in our relationship to that reality.

New Self, New World
Philip Shepherd
Page 6

Wisdom

“As you perceive something, you give birth to a thought, and this thought now thinks. Now that it exists, now that it has been conjured, now that it has been focused, now it vibrates. Now, by Law of Attraction, other thoughts that are vibrationally same will come to it. So it begins its expansion immediately.”

Ester & Jerry Hicks

The Freedom to Feel Wholeness (Part 1)

The desire to . . . clamber out of the solitary cell of the self lies at the very heart of the age-old quest of the human soul: the quest for wholeness - that is, to feel the world as a whole, and the self as a whole within it, and, in feeling that wholeness, to live it.

In that regard, it seems to me that the primary freedom denied us by our [Western] culture’s invisible walls is the freedom to feel the unbroken wholeness of the world to which we belong - which happens to be the world’s primary reality.

New Self, New World
Philip Shepherd
Page 6

When a Being Is a True Buddha

Our ancient texts tell us that when a being is a true Buddha and has become emptied of self and so full of the creative power of that emptiness that is always manifesting everything, all things testify to his or her truth and obey his will effortlessly.

Sogyal Rinpoche
Tibetan Dzogchen Lama of the Nyingma tradition
Quoted in “The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism”
Andrew Harvey
Pages 27-28

Positive aspects

“Make lists of positive aspects. Make lists of things you love-and never complain about anything. And as you use those things that shine bright and make you feel good as your excuse to give your attention and be who-you-are, you will tune to who-you-are, and the whole world will begin to transform before your eyes. It is not your job to transform the world for others-but it is your job to transform it for you. A state of appreciation is pure Connection to Source where there is no perception of lack.”

Ester & Jerry Hicks

That Would Heal the World

I invite every minister, every priest, every rabbi, every teacher, every guru, every Master, every president, every prime minister, every king, every queen, every leader, every nation, every political party to issue one statement that would heal the world:

OURS IS NOT A BETTER WAY, OURS IS MERELY ANOTHER WAY.

Friendship With God
Neale Donald Walsch
Page 153

The Missing Message (Part 3)

If humanity adopted this Missing Message as its next new truth in religion — just as it regularly adopts new truths in medicine, science, and technology — the world could change overnight. For the idea that you and all humans are one with God and one with each other is psychologically and spiritually revolutionary.

Tomorrow’s God
Neale Donald Walsch
Page 34

The Missing Message (Part 2)

The Missing Message (Part 2)

Because this message has been missing, humanity has been missing the mark in its attempts to create a world of peace and harmony and happiness, and religions have been missing the point of Life itself, causing millions of people to be missing the experience of Oneness with the Creator - and with each other.

Tomorrow’s God
Neale Donald Walsch
Pages 33-34

For Everything There Is a Season (Part 2)

For Everything There Is a Season (Part 2)

a time to seek, and a time to lose;

a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

a time to rend and a time to sow;

a time to keep silence and a time to speak;

a time to love, and a time to hate;

a time for war and a time for peace.

What is it time for now? That is the question. What time do you choose for it to be now? You have had all of these times, and now it is time for you to choose which time you wish to experience “this time”!

Friendship With God
Neale Donald Walsch
Pages 229-230

Law of Attraction

Each and every component that makes up your life experience is drawn to you by the powerful Law of Attraction’s response to the thoughts you think and the story you tell about your life. Your money and financial assets; your body’s state of wellness, clarity, flexibility, size, and shape; your work environment, how you are treated, work satisfaction, and rewards-indeed, the very happiness of your life experience in general-is all happening because of the story that you tell.

Ester & Jerry Hicks

The Missing Message (Part 1)

[Judaism, Islam and Christianity] - and many others - teach of a Creator who is separate from His creation. So, the message here that Tomorrow’s God will be separate from nothing is a radical message. It is also a very important one. Perhaps the single most important message of the New Spirituality. And it is the one element that is missing from most of the world’s theologies.

It is the Missing Message.

Tomorrow’s God
Neale Donald Walsch
Pages 33-34

What if?

When you play the What-If? game, look for things that make you feel better. There is never a situation in which there is not a way out-but, out of habit, most people continue to choose the “lack” perspective until they eventually find themselves where it seems that there are no more choices. But as you hold to your intention to look for evidence of Well-Being and thriving and success and happiness, you will tune yourself to the vibrations of those things-and so those kinds of good-feeling experiences will dominate your life.

Ester & Jerry Hicks

The Universe does not know…

The Universe does not know or care whether the vibration that you’re offering is in response to something you are living right now, and observing, or in response to something you are imagining. In either case, the Universe accepts it as your point of attraction and matches it.

Ester & Jerry Hicks

For Everything There Is a Season (Part 1)

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven.

A time to be born, and a time to die;

a time to plant, and a time to harvest that which has been planted;

a time to kill, and a time to heal;

a time to break down, and a time to build up;

a time to weep, and a time to laugh;

a time to mourn and a time to dance;

a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;

a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

Friendship With God
Neale Donald Walsch
Page 229

What Is the Function of God?

It is my function to glorify you, and so, to glorify Me. For only in the glory of you will the glory of Me be found.

Only through the wonder of you will the wonder of Me be made known. Only through Life Itself, expressed in its next grandest way, can Life Itself be experienced in such a way.

The New Revelations
Neale Donald Walsch
Page 82