Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

If I'm going to talk about an issue, I better know what it's about viscerally.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

Only I know my life.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.

Love is the garment of knowledge.

What is true for you is what you have observed yourself. And when you lose that, you have lost everything.

The wise are wise only because they love.

Love is wiser than wisdom.

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.

A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.

Experience is a question of instinct about life.

There is a language that is beyond words. If I can learn to decipher that language without words, I will be able to decipher the world.

There are subjects where reason cannot take us far and we have to accept things on faith. Faith then does not contradict reason but transcends it. Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.

Reverence makes it possible to be whole, though ignorant. It is the wholeness of understanding.

My trade and my art is living. He who forbids me to speak about it according to my sense, experience, and practice, let him orderthe architect to speak of buildings not according to himself but according to his neighbor; according to another man's knowledge, not according to his own.

Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers.

The whole of life itself expresses the blues. That's why I always say the blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling and understanding. The blues can be about anything pertaining to the facts of life. The blues call on God as much as a spiritual song do.

Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.

Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.

People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one who knows except the person who carts it around her own self.

When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.

All your knowledge is dust. Knowing is your purity, knowledge is dust.

What is Truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the "voice within" tells you. All that I can in true humility present to you is that Truth is not to be found by anybody who has not got an abundant sense of humility. If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth you must reduce yourself to zero.

Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past. Therefore we need enlightenment. We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity. Once we have more knowledge (light) about each other, we will stop condemning each other and a United front will be brought about.