Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding.

Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

Do not flinch from experiences that might destroy your beliefs. The thought you cannot think controls you more than thoughts you speak aloud. Submit yourself to ordeals and test yourself in fire. Relinquish the emotion which rests upon a mistaken belief, and seek to feel fully that emotion which fits the facts.

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

I invite people to examine their lives without negativity, knowing that it's scary, but that not doing it is even scarier.

Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.

It is not easy to be a Witch, a bender, a shaper, one of the Wise; nor is it safe, comfortable, laid back, mellow, uplifting, or a guarantee of Peace of mind. It requires openness, vulnerability, courage and work. It gives no answers, only tasks to be done and questions to consider....It functions in those deeper ways of knowing which our culture has denied and for which we hunger.

Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment.

I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.

Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.

Knowing yourself has to always come from within. The outside can inspire or guide you, but knowing has to come from within you.

Revelation is the marriage of knowing and feeling.

Writers spend all their time preoccupied with just the things that their fellow men and women spend their time trying to avoid thinking about. ... It takes great courage to look where you have to look, which is in yourself, in your experience, in your relationship with fellow beings, your relationship to the earth, to the spirit or to the first cause—to look at them and make something of them.

Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.

Prayer has not been a part of my life in the sense that truth has been.

Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all... Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot--or if you do not know how to improve on things--then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.

Find out who you are and try not to be afraid of it.

It changes your life, the pursuit of truth, if you know that you have tried to find the truth and gone past the first apparent truth towards the real truth. It's very, it's very exciting.

I use the word inquiry as synonymous with The Work...Inquiry is a way to end confusion and to experience internal peace, even in a world of apparent chaos. Above all else, inquiry is about realizing that all the answers we ever need are always available inside us.

With every lecture, you’re forced to look again at every choice you’ve made over the lesson-by-lesson chain of your entire life. And after all these years, you see how little you have to work with, how limited your life and education have been. How scant was your courage and curiosity. Not to mention your expectations.

I am completely in charge of the choices I make about what I am doing to lose weight and get healthy. And you know what? We all have this power. Don’t be angry with me for something good I’ve done for myself. Be angry with yourself for not having the courage to do the same in your own life.

Spirituality is a kind of virgin wisdom, a knowing that comes prior to experience.

So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it.

Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.