An Inspiring Message From Neale Donale Walsch

["Stacey L. Downing" <SDowning@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Neale Donald Walsch is the author of Conversation with God and whether or
not you are a fan of his, this is an inspiring message:

Statement - September 11, 2001 - 12 noon pst

>
> Dear friends around the world.
> The events of this day cause every thinking person to stop their daily
> lives, whatever is going on in them, and to ponder deeply the larger
> questions of life. We search again for not only the meaning of life, but
the
> purpose of our individual and collective experience as we have created
> it-and we look earnestly for ways in which we might recreate ourselves
anew
> as a human species, so that we will never treat each other this way again.
>
> The hour has come for us to demonstrate at the highest level our most
> extraordinary thought about Who We Really Are.
>
> There are two possible responses to what has occurred today. The first
comes
> from love, the second from fear. If we come from fear we may panic and do
> things-as individuals and as nations-that could only cause further damage.
>
> If we come from love we will find refuge and strength, even as we provide
it
> to others.
>
> A central teaching of Conversations with God is: What you wish to
> experience, provide for another.
>
> Look to see, now, what it is you wish to experience-in your own life, and
in
> the world. Then see if there is another for whom you may be the source of
> that.
>
> If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.
>
> If you wish to know that you are safe, cause another to know that they are
> safe.
>
> If you wish to better understand seemingly incomprehensible things, help
> another to better understand.
>
> If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or
> anger of another.
>
> Those others are waiting for you now. They are looking to you for
guidance,
> for help, for courage, for strength, for understanding, and for assurance
at
> this hour. Most of all, they are looking to you for love.
>
> This is the moment of your ministry. This is the time of teaching. What
you
> teach at this time, through your every word and action right now, will
> remain as indelible lessons in the hearts and minds of those whose lives
you
> touch, both now, and for years to come.
>
> We will set the course for tomorrow, today. At this hour. In this moment.
>
> There is much we can do, but there is one thing we cannot do. We cannot
> continue to co-create our lives together on this planet as we have in the
> past. We cannot, except at our peril, ignore the events of this day, or
> their implications.
>
> It is tempting at times like this to give in to rage. Anger is fear
> announced, and rage is anger that is repressed, and then, when it is
> released, that is often misdirected. Right now, anger is not
inappropriate.
> It is, in fact, natural-and can be a blessing. If we use our anger about
> this day not to pinpoint where the blame falls, but where the cause lies,
we
> can lead the way to healing.
>
> Let us seek not to pinpoint blame, but to pinpoint cause.
>
> Unless we take this time to look at the cause of our experience, we will
> never remove ourselves from the experiences it creates. Instead, we will
> forever live in fear of retribution from those within the human family who
> feel aggrieved, and, likewise, seek retribution from them.
>
> So at this time it is important for us to direct our anger toward the
cause
> of our present experience. And that is not necessarily individuals or
groups
> who have attacked others, but, rather, the reasons they have done so.
Unless
> we look at these reasons, we will never be able to eliminate these
attacks.
>
> To me the reasons are clear. We have not learned the most basic human
> lessons. We have not remembered the most basic human truths. We have not
> understood the most basic spiritual wisdom. In short, we have not been
> listening to God, and because we have not, we watch ourselves do ungodly
> things.
>
> The message of Conversations with God is clear: we are all one. That is a
> message the human race has largely ignored. Our separation mentality has
> underscored all of our human creations.
>
> Our religions, our political structures, our economic systems, our
> educational institutions, and our whole approach to life have been based
on
> the idea that we are separate from each other. This has caused us to
inflict
> all manner of injury, one upon the other. And this injury causes other
> injury, for like begets like and negativity only breeds negativity.
>
> It is as easy to understand as that. And so now let us pray that all of us
> in this human family will find the courage and the strength to turn inward
> and to ask a simple, soaring question: what would love do now?
>
> If we could love even those who have attacked us, and seek to understand
why
> they have done so, what then would be our response? Yet if we meet
> negativity with negativity, rage with rage, attack with attack, what then
> will be the outcome?
>
> These are the questions that are placed before the human race today. They
> are questions that we have failed to answer for thousands of years.
Failure
> to answer them now could eliminate the need to answer them at all.
>
> We should make no mistake about this. The human race has the power to
> annihilate itself. We can end life as we know it on this planet in one
> afternoon.
>
> This is the first time in human history that we have been able to say
this.
> And so now we must direct our attention to the questions that such power
> places before us. And we must answer these questions from a spiritual
> perspective, not a political perspective, and not an economic perspective.
>
> We must have our own conversation with God, for only the grandest wisdom
and
> the grandest truth can address the greatest problems, and we are now
facing
> the greatest problems and the greatest challenges in the history of our
> species.
>
> It is not as if we have not seen this coming. Every spiritual, political,
> and philosophical writer of the past 50 years has predicted it. So long as
> we continue to treat each other as we have done on this planet, the
> circumstance that we face on this day will continue to present itself. The
> difference is that now our technology makes our anger much more dangerous.
>
> In the early days of our civilization, we were able to inflict hurt upon
> each other using sticks and rocks and primitive weapons. Then, as our
> technology grew, it became possible for clans to war against clans and,
> ultimately, for nations to war against nations.
>
> But even then, until most recent times, it was not possible for us to
> annihilate each other completely. We could destroy a village, or a town,
or
> a major city, or even an entire nation, but only now is it possible for us
> to destroy our whole world so fast that nothing can stop it once the
process
> has begun.
>
> That is what makes this point in our history different from any other. And
> that is what makes this call for each of us to have our own conversation
> with God so appropriate and so important.
>
> If we want the beauty of the world that we have co-created to be
experienced
> by our children and our children's children, we will have to become
> spiritual activists right here, right now, and cause that to happen. We
must
> choose to be at cause in the matter.
>
> So, talk with God today. Ask God for help, for counsel and advice, for
> insight and for strength and for inner peace and for deep wisdom. Ask God
on
> this day to show us how to show up in the world in a way that will cause
the
> world itself to change.
>
> That is the challenge that is placed before every thinking person today.
> Today the human soul asks the question: What can I do to preserve the
beauty
> and the wonder of our world and to eliminate the anger and hatred-and the
> disparity that inevitably causes it - in that part of the world which I
> touch?
>
> Please seek to answer that question today, with all the magnificence that
is
> You.
>
> I love you, and I send you my deepest thoughts of peace.
> Neale Donald Walsch

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