NEALE DONALD WALSCH

You'll find individuals agreeing on this, but when they get into collective societies and larger groups they find it difficult to achieve group agreement.

It's a very small and select slice of all the people who have ever been born. I believe we've come back during this time, those of us who are here now, specifically to experience it. And to cause a 'quickening of the spirit.'

A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.

The world is starving for a new spiritual truth - a truth that works in sustaining life, not a truth that brings an end to life.

I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion.

As we move into the 21st century, there's what the Bible calls a 'quickening of the spirit.'

The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'

It graduates to 'our state is better than your state', and 'our nation is better than your nation.' And it circles all the way around to where it started: 'Our God is better than your God.'

A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.

I think that things happen individually first, and then collectively. It's not the other way around.

One either has to believe in a God who's terribly prejudiced, or disbelieve the teachings of such exclusionary theologies. Religions have taught us that 'we are better than they.'

The new spirituality will also base itself on a third very large spiritual understanding, which is that life is eternal. Most religious people claim to believe that, but very few people actually live as if that were true.

We've seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive.

As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.

There is a divine purpose behind everything - and therefore a divine presence in everything.

The new spirituality will step away from dogma, will step away from 'We're right and you're wrong.'

If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious.

God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet.

As the new spirituality begins to become the pervasive spirituality of the planet, we'll find that we have abandoned our philosophy of contradictions in which we say we're all one but continue to try to win.

They may not use the word better. But they certainly believe that they'll go to heaven and Jews will not.

I think in metaphysical terms, I would call that increasing the speed of the vibration of life.

It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race.

The Roman Catholics teach that unless you're a Roman Catholic you do not go to heaven.

The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.'