Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before.

If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn't even know you are thinking. You would be like a dreamer who doesn't know he is dreaming. When you know you are dreaming, you are awake within the dream.

It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.

Those who are Awake live in a state of constant amazement.

This watchfulness, this witnessing is the ultimate secret of creating a religious life, of creating a life of transcendence, a life of spirituality, of enlightenment, of buddhahood.

Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given.

Our life experiences area result of where our attention takes us.

God is not in heaven - God is in the present moment. If you are also in the present moment you enter the temple.

We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake

It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

We live in this thought web; we identify things and put them away and distance ourselves from them. But to be completely present? That is source, that is art, that is spirituality. And meditation is a way to defy fear and experience that source.

Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

Every moment is an experience.

Life is a state of consciousness.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is.

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.

To an experienced Zen Buddhist, asking if one believes in Zen or one believes in the Buddha, sounds a little ludicrous, like asking if one believes in air or water. Similarly Quality is not something you believe in, Quality is something you experience.

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

Neither. I am just one who has woken up while the rest of you are still sleeping.

Your job on Earth, therefore, is not to learn (because you already know), but to remember Who You Are. And to remember who everyone else is.