Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

There were now and then, though rarely, the hours that brought the welcome shock, pulled down the walls and brought me back again from my wanderings to the living heart of the world. Sadly and yet deeply moved, I set myself to recall the last of these experiences. It was at a concert of lovely old music. After two of three notes of the piano the door was opened of a sudden to the other world. I sped through heaven and saw God at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of nothing in the world. I accepted all things and to all things I gave up my heart.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.

Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality.

When a wave of love takes over a human being... such an exaltation takes him that he knows he has put his finger on the pulse of the great secret and the great answer.

The word spiritual, not the word religious, is the key.

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them... may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.

There's these things we do that take us into the zone - and we go in that place that I feel like is the place of love that you reach when you're in love or making love, or you're having a good conversation. I feel like that is God.

I'm actually very spiritual.

God is still in the business of coming down to earth: to this cubicle, this email, this room, this house, this job, this hospital room, this car, this bed, this vacation. Any place can become Bethel, the house of God. Cleveland, maybe. Or the chair you're sitting in as you read these words.

In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.

Open your eyes and the whole world is full of God.

Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.

Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable.

I wish the state of enthusiasm I am in may last, for to-day I have felt that there is a God; I have been devotional, and my mind has bben led away from the follies that it is mostly wrapped up in.

I want to breathe in the Spiritual.

I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.

Heaven is a state of mind, not a location, since Spirit is everywhere and in everything.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

See, Heaven is not someplace on a disc in the sky floating around, it's right here amongst us.

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.

Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love.

God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.