Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

Individuals have to decide what is true and real for them.

Everybody is determined by his own experience.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

We all have faith in something: usually a mixture of some personal beliefs with modern science. I am not like that. Mostly I just believe in what personally has worked for me.

I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.

I must find a truth that is true for me.

Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation.

The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.

Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.

Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know.

I will no longer take anyone's word for my experience.

The independence and rebelliousness of our adolescence offer us yet another quality essential to our practice; the insistence that we find out the truth for ourselves, accepting no one's word above our own experience.

Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don't learn you don't know.

Nobody ever told me, I found out for myself, you got to believe in foolish miracles.

Do not believe in me or any other teacher, rather trust in your own inner voice. This is your guide, this is your teacher. Your teacher is within not without. Know yourself, not me!

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.

Right now, in this moment, your soul has again created opportunity for you to be, do, and have what it takes to know Who You Really Are. Your soul has brought you to the words you are reading right now-as it has brought you to words of wisdom and truth before. What will you do now? What will you choose to be? Your soul waits, and watches with interest, as it has many times before.

Do not believe a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe a thing because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because they are hallowed by tradition. Find out the truth for yourself. Reason it out. That is realization.

What I state as certain is certain for me. It has approved itself as such in my experience. Let others consult their experience, and see how far it tallies with that which is here set forth.

Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.

Without ignoring the objective side of the truth, it has to be subjective as well, Buddha's whole teaching just for you, something you can taste. Not something to believe in but to discover, to experience.

I was myself the compass of that sea: I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw Or heard or felt came not but from myself; And there I found myself more truly and more strange.

... and it's always been a thing with me to feel that all men know the truth, see? ... The truth itself doesn't have a name on it. To me. Each man has to find this for himself, I think. I believe that men are here to grow themselves into the best good that they can be... I'm not interested in trying to say what it will be, I don't know. But I believe that good will only bring good.

When our beliefs are based on our own direct experience of reality and not on notions offered by others, no one can remove these beliefs from us.