Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.

There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.

I've always wanted people to know who they are from the inside. Then they can create the life they desire and deserve. I've always believed that my job was to facilitate the evolution of the human consciousness.

You cannot see the changes that you're dreaming about, because they're internal.

You're put in certain situations and it kind of opens up those doors and it opens up your eyes to realize what your true calling was.

Getting to know myself changed everything. It's the best thing I've ever done.

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.

Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.

When you realize that the real breakthroughs come from levels of higher consciousness, then you also realize that the achievement of maturity and wisdom is the most powerful generator of new beginnings possible.

Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.

He suddenly understood the message of so many spiritual teachers that the only revolution that can work is the inner transformation of every human being.

You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.

If you could envision the type of person God intended you to be, you would rise up and never be the same again.

Enlightenment is not a complete remedy.

Some form of suffering often brings about a readiness. One can say it cracks open the shell of the egoic mind with which many people identify as "me." Life cracks open that shell, and once that crack is there, then we are reached more easily by spiritual teaching.

And it is in this darkness, when there is nothing left in us that can please or comfort our own minds, when we seem to be useless and worthy of all contempt, when we seem to have failed, when we seem to be destroyed and devoured, it is then that the deep and secret selfishness that is too close to us for us to identify is stripped away from our souls. It is in this darkness that we find liberty. It is in this abandonment that we are made strong. This is the night which empties us and makes us pure.

We are searching for the core of our lives; our culture intuits that writing, that ancient activity, might be the pathway...Awakening does not feed ego's needs and desires; it pulverizes the self. Our society couldn't knowingly bear such reduction, so we've tricked ourselves into the same path but call it writing.

It wasn't until I began to work on my inner life and know myself that my life changed. Success really does begin within. The size and quality of your outer life is only limited by the size and quality of your inner life.

True progress comes not through action, but through awakening.

Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.

Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.

For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer.

If you accept that a relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy, then the relationship will offer you salvation, and you will be aligning yourself with the higher consciousness that wants to be born into this world.

It is taught, we too can be enlightened, every one of us. We can be completely freed from the bonds of limitation and conditioned confusion through our own endeavor, inspiration, effort and development. There is a path, and we can traverse it.

Once you realize that the way you exist right now is not enough, that there is something more, your spiritual process has already begun.