Returning to Original Wholeness
My dear friends...
We spoke in this space last week about “unfracturing the Self.” In that entry I made the statement that life is meant to be happy, and there really should be no reason for it to be otherwise.
I added that certainly, there is no reason for life to be an experience of ongoing unhappiness. But when we are living as fractured people, trying to serve two masters and three agendas and four different thoughts that four different people have about who they think we are...
Unfracturing the Self
My dear friends...
It seems to me that life continues to be an unfolding mystery for nearly everyone. There have been, and are now, true Masters holding all the answers, knowing every solution, and living life in ongoing peace and harmony (no matter what was or is happening). So we know that reaching such a level of personal and spiritual development is possible. Indeed, we have been promised this by every great religion. Still, I have seen very few people achieve it “in a flash.”...
Are holy scriptures infallible?
My dear friends...
In Friendship with God I asked a very direct question --- and received a very direct answer. I would like to share with you that exchange...
Can’t You say something about gays? I have been asked over and over again, at lectures and appearances and retreats all over the world: won’t You say something to end once and for all the violence and cruelty and discrimination against gays? So much of it is done in Your name. So much of it is said to be justified by Your...
At least once in your life
My dear friends...
For many weeks we have been speaking here about The Holy Experience. I want to invite you to avoid developing preconceived notions about what that Experience is all about, or what it is supposed to “look like.”
It may not be about feeling “filled with the light” or “warm all over” or “One With The Universe.” It could be about that, but it also may not be.
It may not be about only speaking softly and always moving slowly...
Be one of the 5%
My dear friends...
A question: Did Conversations with God do for your spiritual life what it did for mine? The 9 books in the dialogue series did more than simply alter my ideas about God. They gave me tools -- powerful insights that I have used to build new approaches to age-old problems.
I was so excited about it that the first thing I wanted to do was share the CWG messages with everybody. I knew how much they meant to me, and I could only imagine what...
Secret of happy relationships
My dear friends...
I spoke in this space last time about the fact that loneliness is the biggest social issue on our planet today. I said that we’ve been living in a world of increasing isolation, where extended families have been disappearing and the opportunities for closeness with others have been vanishing. The sudden rise and almost addictive use of social networking sites on the Internet by millions around the globe is, without doubt, humanity’s collective compensatory...
Vulnerable, close, and naked
My dear friends...
We have been discussing in this space something that I have called The Holy Experience. And this week I want to share with you that I observe the quality of my life increasing exponentially when I am willing to be vulnerable, close, and naked—as opposed to being totally invulnerable, closed off, and always having my backside covered.
I find that when I am close to another, I am close to myself. I find that when I am ready to share intimacy, authenticity, the Real...
Do you have discipline?
My dear friends...
We have been exploring here what I have called The Holy Experience, and how to create it in one’s life. There are a number of tools that I have found with which one may do this, and over the past many weeks we have been exploring them one by one. Last week we looked at Tool #10, Service. Today, we invite you to pick up the tool of Discipline.
I see this tool being used in two ways. First, as a means of forming and shaping my own day-to-day experience of life, so...
Who are you serving today?
My dear friends...
We have been exploring here what I have called The Holy Experience, and how to create it in one’s life. There are a number of tools that I have found with which one may do this, and over the past many weeks we have been exploring them one by one. This week, a look at Tool #10: Service & Discipline.
When I was a younger man I had a great sadness. A woman with whom I was engaged to be married decided that she didn’t want to marry me after all. She broke off...
Make a Ritual of Ritual
My dear friends...
Last week we discussed in this space Movement as a tool in the creation of The Holy Experience. We also promised that this week we would explore yet one more tool: Ritual. Let’s look at that now.
The dictionary defines ritual as a series of actions or type of behavior regularly and invariably followed by someone, often according to a prescribed order.
Rituals are patterns of ordered living. By their nature they move us into non-awareness by their autonomic forms....
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Through the years the Weekly Bulletin and its articles written by Neale Donald Walsch have become a favorite in the email boxes of thousands of readers around the world. We are pleased to present in this space, in addition to Neale's newest articles, occasional selections from the very best of his past writings for this publication. We do not wish our readers to miss any of these commentaries, showing us a way to apply CWG in our daily lives. Whether a new presentation or an encore printing, we trust that you will receive much value from these writings.
