An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 3 by Neale Donald Walsch

  • You must learn to be gentle with yourself. And stop judging yourself.
  • It is not necessary to have achieved the highest level of evolution to speak of the highest level of evolution.
  • You will not grow through guilt, but only shrivel and die.
    Awareness is what you seek. But awareness is not guilt, and love is not fear.
  • “All good things come to those who wait.”
  • First you “be” the thing called “happy” (or “knowing,” or “wise,” or “compassionate,” or whatever); then you start “doing” things from this place of being-ness-and soon you discover that what you are doing winds up bringing you the things you’ve always wanted to “have.”
    The way to set this creative process (and that’s what this is. . . the process of creation) into motion is to look at what it is you want to “have,” ask yourself what you think you would “be” if you “had” that, then go right straight to being.
  • Happiness is a state of mind. And like all states of mind, it reproduces itself in physical form.
  • “Fake it until you make it.”
    …Only you can’t really be
    “faking.” Your actions have to be sincere.
    Everything you do, do out of sincerity, or the benefitof the action is lost.
    This is not because I won’t “reward you.” God does not “reward” and “punish,” as you know. But Natural Law requires the body, mind, and spirit to be united in thought, word, and action for the process of creation to work.
    You cannot fool your mind. If you are insincere, your mind knows it, and that’s that. You’ve just ended any chance that your mind can help you in the creative process.
    You can, of course, create without your mind-it’s just a great deal more difficult. You can ask your body to do something your mind doesn’t believe, and if your body does it long enough, your mind will begin to let go of its former thought about that, and create a New Thought. Once you have a New Thought about a thing, you’re well on your way to creating it as a permanent aspect of your being, rather than something you’re just acting out.
    This is doing things the hard way, and even in such instances, the action must be sincere. Unlike what you can do with people, you cannot manipulate the universe.
    So here we have a very delicate balance. The body does something in which the mind does not believe, yet the mind must add the ingredient of sincerity to the body’s action for it to work.
  • If you choose to be prosperous, cause another to prosper.
  • So when you want something, give it away. You will then no longer be “wanting” it. You will immediately experience “having” it. From there on, it is only a question of degree. Psychologically, you will find it much easier to “add onto,” than to create out of thin air.
  • I never, ever interfere with your deepest desire.
  • When your choices conflict-when body, mind, and spirit are not acting as one-the process of creation works at all levels, producing mixed results. If, on the other hand, your being is in harmony, and your choices are unified, astonishing things can occur.
    Your young people have a phrase-“having it all together”-which could be used to describe this unified state of being.
    There are also levels within levels in your decision making. This is particularly true at the level of the mind.
    Your mind can, and does, make decisions and choices from one of at least three interior levels: logic, intuition, emotion-and sometimes from all three- producing the potential for even more inner conflict.
    And within one of those levels-emotion-there are five more levels. These are the five natural emotions: grief, anger, envy, fear, and love.
    And within these, also, there are two final levels: love and fear.
    The five natural emotions include love and fear, yet love and fear are the basis of all emotions. The other three of the five natural emotions are outgrowths of these two.
    Ultimately, all thoughts are sponsored by love or fear. This is the great polarity. This is the primal duality. Everything, ultimately, breaks down to one of these. All thoughts, ideas, concepts, understandings, decisions, choices, and actions are based in one of these.
    And, in the end, there is really only one.
    Love.
    In truth, love is all there is. Even fear is an outgrowth of love, and when used effectively, expresses love.
  • Grief is a natural emotion.
    Grief that is continually repressed becomes chronic depression, a very unnatural emotion.
    Anger is a natural emotion.
    Anger that is continually repressed becomes rage, a very unnatural emotion.
    Envy is a natural emotion.
    Envy that is continually repressed becomes jealousy, a very unnatural emotion.
    Fear is a natural emotion…The purpose of natural fear is to build in a bit of caution. Caution is a tool that helps keep the body alive. It is an outgrowth of love. Love of Self.
    Children who are made to feel that fear is not okay-that it is wrong to express it, and, in fact, that they shouldn’t even experience it-will have a difficult time appropriately dealing with their fear as adults.
    Fear that is continually repressed becomes panic, a very unnatural emotion.
    Love is a natural emotion.
    Love that is continually repressed becomes possessiveness, a very unnatural emotion.
  • Newly departed souls therefore learn to monitor their thoughts very carefully, because whatever they think of, they experience…
    If physicalized souls learned to control their thoughts as quickly and as efficiently as spiritualized souls, their whole lives would change.
    In the creation of individual reality, thought control, or what some might call prayer-is everything.
  • Thought control is the highest form of prayer. Therefore, think only on good things, and righteous. Dwell not in negativity and darkness. And even in moments when things look bleak-especially in those moments-see only perfection, express only gratefulness, and then imagine only what manifestation of perfection you choose next.
    In this formula is found tranquillity. In this process is found peace. In this awareness is found joy.
  • Souls released from the body quickly remember to monitor and control their thoughts very carefully, for whatever they think of, that is what they create and experience…you are at cause in the creation of your experience, not at the effect of it.
  • To the degree that your uncontrolled thoughts are stronger than the collective consciousness, to that degree you will experience them as reality. To the degree that the collective consciousness is accepted, absorbed, and internalized, to that degree you will experience it as your reality…
    1. You may allow your uncontrolled thoughts to create The Moment.
    2. You may allow your creative consciousness to create The Moment.
    3. You may allow the collective consciousness to create The Moment.

    …It is when you are surrounded by lower consciousness that you will benefit more from remaining with your individual understandings, and when you are surrounded by higher consciousness that you receive greater benefit from surrender.
    …I cannot overemphasize the importance of the company you keep.
    In what you call the afterlife, there is nothing to worry about on this score, for you will instantly and automatically be surrounded by beings of high consciousness-and by high consciousness itself.

  • Be open, therefore. Be OPEN. Don’t close off the possibility of new truth because you have been comfortable with an old one. Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
    Yet be not quick to judge another. Rather, seek to avoid judgment, for another person’s “wrongs” were your “rights” of yestermorn; another person’s mistakes are your own past actions, now corrected; another person’s choices and decisions are as “hurtful” and “harmful,” as “selfish” and “unforgivable,” as many of your own have been.
    It is when you “just can’t imagine” how another person could “do such a thing” that you have forgotten where you came from, and where both you and the other person are going.
  • Nothing in this universe occurs by accident. There is no such thing as an “accident,” nor is there any such thing as “coincidence.”
  • Finally, don’t try to “get out” of anything. What you resist, persists.
    1. All thought is energy.
    2. All things are in motion.
    3. All time is now.

    Asking the question engages the mind, and that’s the last thing a psychic wants to do. Intuition does not reside in the mind. To be psychic, you’ve got to be out of your mind. Because intuition resides in the psyche. In the soul.
    Every feeling you’ve ever had resides in your soul. Your soul is the sum total of all your feelings. It is the repository.

  • Whatever you cause another to experience, you will one day experience.
  • What you fear, you create. Yet there is really nothing to be afraid of.
  • There are no coincidences in the universe.
  • You may return to mortal form-that is, a physical form which can “die”-whenever and however you wish.
  • “Right” and “wrong” are philosophical polarities in a human value system which have nothing to do with ultimate reality-a point Which I have made repeatedly throughout this dialogue. They are, furthermore, not even constant constructs within your own system, but rather, values which keen shifting from time to time…
    Glorify what you are today, yet do not condemn what you were yesterday, nor preclude what you could become tomorrow.
    Understand that “right” and “wrong” are figments of your imagination, and that “okay” and “not okay” are merely announcements of your latest preferences and imaginings.
  • Enlightenment begins with acceptance, without judgment of “what is.”
    This is known as moving into the Isness. It is in the Isness where freedom will be found.
    What you resist, persists. What you look at disappears. That is, it ceases to have its illusory form. You see it for what it Is. And what Is can always be changed. It is only what Is Not that cannot be changed. Therefore, to change the Isness, move into it. Do not resist it. Do not deny it.
    What you deny you declare. What you declare you create.
    Denial of something is re-creation of it, for the very act of denying something places it there.
    Acceptance of something places you in control of it. That which you deny you cannot control, for you have said it is not there. Therefore what you deny controls you.
  • The person of great wisdom needs little sleep.
  • Daily meditation is one of the best tools with which to create this experience. With it, you can raise your life energy to the highest chakra . . . . . and even leave your body while you are “awake.”
  • Breathe long and deep. Breathe slowly and gently. Breathe in the soft, sweet nothingness of life, so full of energy, so full of love.
  • The realm of the relative is, in fact, held together by just such tensions. As an example, the tension between good and evil. In ultimate reality there is no such thing as good and evil. In the realm of the absolute, all there is is love. Yet in the realm of the relative you have created the experience of what you “call” evil, and you have done it for a very sound reason. You wanted to experience love, not just “know” that love is All There Is, and you cannot experience something when there is nothing else but that. And so, you created in your reality (and continue to do so every day) a polarity of good and evil, thus using one so that you might experience the other.
    And here we have a Divine Dichotomy-two seemingly contradictory truths existing simultaneously in the same place. Specifically:
    There is such a thing as good and evil.
    All there is is love.
  • Your life was never meant to be a struggle, and doesn’t have to be, now or ever.
  • So there is no need to worry about what you are going to “get back.” There is only a need to worry about what you are going to “give out.” Life is about creating the highest quality giving, not the highest quality getting.
    …life is not “for getting.” Life is “for giving,” and in order to do that, you need to be forgiving to others-especially those who did not give you what you thought you were going to get!
  • A HEB, in fact, would never consume an animal, much less fill the ground, and the plants which the animal eats, with chemicals, then fill the animal itself with chemicals, and then consume it.
  • A HEB never worries-and wouldn’t even understand the human concept of “worry” or “stress.” Neither would a HEB “hate,” or feel “rage,” or “jealousy,” or panic. Therefore, the HEB does not produce biochemical reactions within her own body that eat away at it and destroy it. A HEB would call this “eating itself,” and a HEB would no sooner consume itself than it would consume another corporal being.
  • There is no shame.
  • Nor any such thing as guilt.
  • “Good” does not-cannot–exist experientially without its opposite. Therefore have you also created evil, which is the backward motion, or opposite direction, of good. It is the opposite of life-and so have you created what you call death.
  • Your brain is not the source of your intelligence. It is simply a data processor. It takes in data through receptors called your senses. It interprets this energy in formation according to its previous data on the subject. It tells you what it perceives, not what really is. Based on these perceptions, you think you know the truth about something, when, actually, you do not know the half of it. In reality, you are creating the truth that you know.
  • There was no one to forgive. All I have created is Perfection and Love.
  • You are deciding what is “cold” and what is “warm,” what is “up” and what is “down.” (Get out in space and watch your definitions disappear!) You are deciding what is “good” and what is “evil.” And your ideas about all these things have changed through the years-indeed, even through the seasons. On a summer day you would call 420F “cold.” In the middle of winter, however, you would say, “Boy, what a warm day!” …
    It is not necessary for an opposite condition to exist right next to you in order to provide a contextual field within which the reality that you choose may be experienced.
    The distance between contrasts is irrelevant. The entire universe provides the contextual field within which all contrasting elements exist, and all experiences are thus made possible. That is the purpose of the universe. That is its function.
  • what you are doing now is simply remembering everything you are, and choosing the portion of that which you prefer to experience in this moment, in this lifetime, on this planet, in this physical form.
  • You do have to live within a contextual field within which That Which You Are Not exists, in order for you to experience That Which You Are. This is the Universal Law, and you cannot avoid it. Yet you are living in such a field, right now. You do not have to create one. The contextual field in which you are living is called the universe.