Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

I shall create a new world for myself.

We are constantly creating ourselves by what we move toward or away from.

Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as that.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that ... you really must make the self. It is absolutely useless to look for it, you won't find it, but it's possible in some sense to make it. I don't mean in the sense of making a mask, a Yeatsian mask. But you finally begin in some sense to make and choose the self you want.

You are not creating a new you; you are releasing a hidden you. The process is one of self discovery. The hidden you that wants to emerge is in perfect balance.

Like any art, the creation of self is both natural and seemingly impossible. It requires training as well as magic.

Life is a labor pain; we are here to give birth to ourself.

Think of a crucible as an occasion for real magic, the creation of something more valuable than an alchemist could possibly imagine. In it, the individual is transformed, changed, created anew. He or she grows in ways that change his or her definition of self.

You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.

The finest life is spent creating oneself, not procreating.

Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old.

Self-definition and self-determination is about the many varied decisions that we make to compose and journey toward ourselves, about the audacity and strength to proclaim, create, and evolve into who we know ourselves to be. It’s okay if your personal definition is in a constant state of flux as you navigate the world.

The final goal of human effort is man's self-transforma tion.

Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.

There is nothing you cannot be, there is nothing you cannot do. There is nothing you cannot have.

Ignore your previous experience and go into the moment. Be Here Now. See what there is to work with right now in creating yourself anew. Life is an ongoing, never-ending process of re-creation.

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of peopleMaybe we’re accumulating these new selves all the time. Hauling them in as we make choices, good and bad, as we screw up, step up, lose our minds, find our minds, fall apart, fall in love, as we grieve, grow, retreat from the world, dive into the world, as we make things, as we break things.

But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.

Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.