Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

“A life lived by choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived by chance is a life of unconscious reaction.”

“Are you in a place called fear, or in a place called love? Where are you, and where are you coming from, as you encounter life?”

“Be a gift to everyone who enters your life, and to everyone whose life you enter. Be careful not to enter another’s life if you cannot be a gift.”

“Do what you do for the sheer joy of it,
Do what you choose, not what someone else chooses for you.”

“Feelings can be tricky. Feelings are the language of the soul, but you must make sure you are listening to your true feelings and not some counterfeit model constructed in your mind.”

“Government is the perfect portrayer of the accuracy of the axiom that if you lie big enough, long enough, the lie becomes the truth.”

“Happiness is a decision, not an experience. The same is true of love. Love is not a reaction. Love is a decision.”

“If the whole world followed you, would you be pleased with where you took it?”

“If you say you’re happy, then you’re happy. Who gets to measure these things if it isn’t you?”

“If you want guarantees in life, then you don't want life. You want rehearsals for a script that's already been written.”

“If you want the best the world has to offer, offer the world your best.”

“It is okay to be at a place of struggle. Struggle is just another word for growth. Even the most evolved beings find themselves in a place of struggle now and then. In fact, struggle is a sure sign to them that they are expanding; it is their indication of real and important progress. The only one who doesn’t struggle is the one who doesn’t grow. So if you are struggling right now, see it as a terrific sign — celebrate your struggle.”

“Move forward with no second-guessing, no guilt trips, no hesitation. Your purpose is to recreate yourself anew in each moment.”

“No one does anything inappropriate, given their model of the world.”

“Pain results from a judgment you have made about a thing. Remove the judgment and the pain disappears.”

“Sometimes you have to do what you don’t want to do in order to ensure that you won’t have to keep on doing it! This apparent contradiction is part of the Divine Dichotomy, which says that sometimes the only way to ultimately be a thing may be, at first, to not be it!”

“The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be.”

“What you resist, persists.”

“When change visits your life, you can be sure that things are turning for the better. If you have faith, you will see that this is true.”

“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.”

“You are all messengers. Every one of you. You are carrying a message to life about life every day. Every hour. Every moment.”

“You will return to Heaven whether you have loved God in the right way or not. There is no place else to go.”

“Your soul doesn't care what you do for a living - and when your life is over, neither will you. Your soul cares only about what you are being while you are doing whatever you are doing.”

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”

“All human actions are motivated at their deepest level by two emotions – fear or love.”

“Remember first that everything you think, say, and do is a reflection of what you've decided about yourself; a statement of Who You Are; an act of creation in your deciding who you want to be.”

“True masters are those who've chosen to make a life rather than a living.”

“What's happening is merely what's happening. How you feel about it is another matter.”

“Must you know that yours will be the better picture before you pick up the brush and paint? Can it not simply be another picture? Another expression of beauty? Must a rose be better than an iris in order to justify it’s existence?”

“You are afraid to die, and you’re afraid to live. What a way to exist.”