Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

You can choose to acknowledge that there is something you don not understand about God and about Life, the understanding of which will change everything.

I'm not big on faith rules, but if I had to choose one, it would be that every person must choose a faith issue upon which to hang her hat that requires her to change - not somebody else.

I went deep inside myself. I had time to explore my beliefs and because of that I'm stronger. Bob Marley (March 1981)

I have lived enough to know great things will unfold for me externally only if I allow them to unfold for me internally.

The movement of grace toward gratitude brings us from the package of self-obsessed madness to a spiritual awakening.

Civilization changes man on the outside. Meditation softens him within, through and through.

You can't make radical changes in the pattern of your life until you see yourself exactly as you are now. As soon as you do that changes will flow naturally.

To change what you get you must change who you are.

My methods produce lasting behavioral change without unpleasant consequences, because the change does not come from an effort of will. It comes from examining your deep-rooted beliefs of who you are and how the world functions. As you examine these beliefs and make changes in them, you literally become a different person.

The sacred duty of being an individual is to gradually learn how to live so as to awaken the eternal within you.

It is so powerful when we can leave behind our ordinary identities, no longer think of ourselves primarily as a conductor, or writer, or salesclerk, and go to a supportive environment to deeply immerse in meditation practice.

Our culture is so obsessed with the idea that you're going to go through a crisis or some difficult event and come out the other side a changed or improved person, and I just think that if you're honest, that often does not happen, and in fact, it shouldn't happen.

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

I am not a spiritual guy, but all of a sudden I felt the need to really feel things.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

Devotion begins at home, inside your own awareness.

I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28.

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the measure of our greatest challenge: the self, the ego, in our own eyes and as others see us.

There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.

Sometimes all it takes to change a life is to decide which beliefs do not serve you and to literally change your mind about those beliefs.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody's life.

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.