Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Never think you can separate who you are from what you're doing.

We've all got an identity. You can't avoid it. It's what's left when you take everything else away.

Everything has its own place and function. That applies to people, although many don't seem to realize it, stuck as they are in the wrong job, the wrong marriage, or the wrong house. When you know and respect your Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don't belong.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

You were born as the one you are.

I'm always aware that there are, broadly speaking, two different ways to act: there is acting, and then there's being, and I'm always more interested in that.

In order to do something you must be something.

Things can be really empty in this world, and I don't just mean the music world. It can become a very meaningless place if you don't really understand: 'who am I? Why am I here? What am I doing?' To feel fulfilment and have a deeper level of understanding, personally, that is the most important thing.

How could I have been anyone other than me?

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

Life, is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.

If you don't know yourself, you don't know your nature. If you don't know your nature, you don't know where to exist. By knowing your nature, knowing yourself, you know what to be and how to live. And that only comes from knowledge of self, knowing yourself.

Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.

Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.

You are what you are" "Which is what? I wondered

Awareness is something that is very important. And you say that it looks impossible to become what we really are, to be authentic, to be ourselves again. But I will tell you that it is much more difficult to try to be what we are not.

It doesn't matter what you do. It matters who you are.

You are not a human being. You are not your body, you are not your mind, and you are not your soul. These are things that You have. The You that has these things - indeed, that has given your Self these things - is far bigger than any of them, and even all of them put together.

Stop trying to figure out what is 'best' for you (how you can win the most, lose the least, get what you want) and start going with what feels like Who You Are.

Why do we have to spend our lives striving to be something that we would never want to be, if we only knew what we wanted? Why do we waste our time doing things which... are just the opposite of what we were made for?

Every child is simple, just a clean slate. Then the parents start writing on his slate - what he has to become. Then the teachers, the priests, the leaders - they all go on emphasizing that you have to become somebody; otherwise, you have wasted your life. Just the opposite is the case. You are a being. You need not become anybody else. That is the meaning of simplicity: remaining at ease with one's being, and not going on any track of becoming - which is unending.

You yourselves are the Being you are seeking.

I realize then that it's not enough to know what someone is called. You have to know who they are.

The soul is the truth of who we are.