Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.

Consciousness is not a bunch of thoughts or a certain level of understanding. Consciousness is a dimension that is beyond our physicality.

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.

The Self when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe-the body-is the soul.

Body and soul. Two different things

Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.

The body, then, has a mind of its own. It must follow, then, that the Mind has a body of its own, even if it’s like nothing that we can see around us, or have ever seen.

One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine.

An 'I' without a body is a possibility. But a body without an 'I' is utterly impossible.

The illusion is we are only physical.

And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?

The body was a cage, and inside that cage was something which looked, listened, feared, thought and marveled; that something, that remainder left over after the body had been accounted for, was the soul.

It’s not the body that people love, but the soul. The body is a temporary vehicle. Without the soul, the body is like a car without a driver. I see through my eyes, smell through my nose, taste through my tongue, hear through my ears, feel through my skin, think through my brain, and love through my heart. But who am I? Who is the witness, enjoyer and sufferer that activates my body?

You have seen that the universe is at root a magical illusion and a fabulous game, and that there is no separate "you" to get something out of it, as if life were a bank to be robbed. The only real "you" is the one that comes and goes, manifests and withdraws itself eternally in and as every conscious being. For "you" is the universe looking at itself from billions of points of view, points that come and go so that the vision is forever new.

pg 9, "The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is the oldest tax levied on the intelligence.

When I sleep every night, what am I called or not called? And when I wake, who am I if I was not I while I slept?

Perhaps the best place to begin with an integral approach to business is with.. oneself. In the Big Three of self, culture, and world, integral mastery starts with self. How do body and mind and spirit operate in me? How does that necessarily impact my role in the world of business? And how can I become more conscious of these already operating realities in myself and in others?

Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.

I am me, whatever that means. I am conscious.

It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve.

One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact or action. In fact the I is not necessary here, since it is never united directly to consciousness. One can even imagine a pure and self-aware consciousness which thinks of itself as impersonal spontaneity.

Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are.

We both exist and know that we exist, and rejoice in this knowledge.

Only in unawareness you are mortal. In awareness you are immortal.

The For-itself, in fact, is nothing but the pure nihilation of the In-itself; it is like a hole of being at the heart of Being.