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Every Act is an Act of Self Definition

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Neale Donald Walsch | March 9 2012

My dear friends… I said here last week that there are two ways to give something meaning: (1) we can pull the meaning from our Past, or (2) we can choose the meaning in our Present, as Highly Evolved Beings would do. Let’s pick up our narrative from there…

Lower animals do not create meaning, they simply remember it. A deer hears a twig snap in the forest and “decides” that it means danger. The deer doesn’t wait around to see if he’s right or not. The deer scampers. Because the deer remembers.

The first time that deer heard a twig snap, he may have been very young, and he watched his parents scamper. So he scampered, too. Now he scampers even though his parents are not there. What made his parents scamper? Their parents scampered. What made their parents scamper? Their parents scampered. Deer-scampering has been going on for generations.

Higher animals do not scamper if they hear a twig snap in the forest– unless they choose to. Higher animals hear the same sound, but go through an entirely different process. They think about the snap. They think about who or what might have made the noise, how close the noise is, what it means, and what level of danger they are in, if any.

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“Are You A Spiritual Scrooge?

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Neale Donald Walsch | February 3 2012

godMy dear friends…

We are embarked in this space on a year-long exploration of The Holy Experience. I hope and trust that you are enjoying it as much as I am.

The Holy Experience is just like any other form of wealth. You cannot fully experience it until you share it with others. What good does it do you to have inherited a million dollars if you never spend so much as a nickel of it?

Like the Walt Disney comic book character Uncle Scrooge McDuck sitting there ogling his pile of gold, you’ll find that there’s not much joy in holding onto it. Yet if you grab a handful of it and give it to others–go on a “spending spree”–suddenly you know experientially what having that money is all about.

Similarly, if you keep the Holy Experience all to yourself, you will find after a very short while that you are experiencing the smallest part of it. Yet if you grab a handful of it and give it to others – go on a “spiritual spending spree”–suddenly you know experientially what having the Holy Experience is all about.

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Step Out of Yesterday

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Neale Donald Walsch | January 18 2012

My dear friends

DivinityWe spoke here last week about Awareness as a step on the road to The Holy Experience. There are just a few more words I want to say on that subject before I move to this week’s exploration…

Awareness is a very, very important aspect of Life. I think it’s an important quality to nurture and to grow. If we can grow in Awareness, I think that we grow in one of the most vital ways. I think that Awareness is Vitality. I think it is Spiritual Vitality. I think that one is “spiritually vital” when one is Aware—and I think that when one is Aware one becomes “spiritually vital.” I’m saying that I think the effect is circular.

So look deeply into each moment. Savor each nanosecond. Don’t miss a single cloud formation, if you can help it. Or a single fragrance. Or a single nuance in the energy of your Beloved. Don’t miss this; don’t miss this, Don’t Miss This.

When you are aware–deeply aware–of the wonder of Now (Eckhart Tolle has written marvelously on this subject), you find it really very easy to declare that you are now having The Holy Experience.

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The Most Important Key Of All

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Neale Donald Walsch | Neale Donald Walsch
December 8 2011

We continue this week our ongoing series on The Holy Experience. As I said last week, the second step in creating the Holy Experience is understanding that you are worthy of having it. This understanding is born of the clarity that God finds us whole, complete, and perfect just as we are, in this moment, for we are not judged by God in any way.

Yet even if we accept that God will never judge us and never has, there is still the question of our own self-judgment–the harshest judgment of all. And so a major process for us, a huge portion of our internal work and of our personal preparation for the Holy Experience, and what we termed the most important key of all, has to do with self-forgiveness.

Almost always it is easier for people to embrace the idea that God forgives them than it is for them to forgive themselves. We have a whole list of “wrongs” we imagine ourselves to have done in our lives, and we can’t forget them.

We, and only we, know the inner workings of our mind, the quiet scheming of our heart, the sad assessment of our very human conscience, as we look at our lives and give ourselves a grade.

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