Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

You don't have a soul; you are your own soul. In other words, you are not this book, your social security card, your body, or your mind. You are you.

I am not this body. I am in this body, and this is part of my incarnation and I honor it but that isn't who I am.

Do not think of yourself as the body, but as the joyous consciousness and immortal life behind it.

The authentic self is the soul made visible.

Your job on Earth, therefore, is not to learn (because you already know), but to remember Who You Are. And to remember who everyone else is.

You are not your body; you are not your brain, not even your mind. You are Spirit. All you have to do is reawaken to the memory, to remember.

Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.

The soul is the truth of who we are.

Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?

Whatever we call it - mind, character, soul - we like to think we possess something that is greater than the sum of our neurons and that animates us.

I am not the perishable body, but the eternal Self.

What's in your soul is in your soul.

Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.

The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

There is no self.

Experiences such as, 'I went; I came; I was; I did,' come naturally to everyone. From these experiences, does it not appear that the consciousness 'I' is the subject of those various acts? Enquiry into the true nature of that consciousness, and remaining as oneself, is the way to understand, through enquiry, one's true nature.

Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.

The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.

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

The Truth is inseparable from who you are. Yes, you are the Truth. If you look for it elsewhere, you will be deceived every time.

What you seek, you already are.

Being is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature. But don't seek to grasp it with your mind. Don't try to understand it. You can know it only when the mind is still. When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.

How can one become enlightened? One can, because one is enlightened - one just has to recognize the fact.