There are three basic wisdoms that run through the entire Conversations With God dialogue. These are:
1. We Are All One.
2. There's Enough.
3. There's Nothing We Have To Do.
If you decided that ‘we are all one,’ you would cease treating each other the way you do.
If you decided that ‘there's enough,’ you would share everything with everyone.
If you decided that ‘there's nothing we have to do,' you would stop trying to use ‘doingness' to solve your problems, but rather, move to, and come from a state of being which would cause your experience of those ‘problems’ to disappear, and the conditions themselves to thus evaporate.
This is perhaps the most important truth of all for you to understand at this stage in your evolution, and it is a good place to end this dialogue. Remember this always, and make it your mantra:
There's nothing I have to have, there's nothing I have to do, and there's nothing I have to be, except exactly what I'm being right now.
This does not mean that ‘having' and ‘doing' will be eliminated from your life. It means that what you experience yourself having or doing will spring from your being – not lead you to it.
When you come from ‘happiness,’ you do certain things because you are happy – as opposed to the old paradigm in which you did things that you hoped would make you happy.
When you come from ‘wisdom,’ you do certain things because you are wise, not because you are trying to get to wisdom.
When you come from ‘love,’ you do certain things because you are love, not because you want to have love.
Everything changes; everything turns around, when you come from ‘being,’ rather than seeking to ‘be.’ You cannot ‘do’ your way to ‘being.’ Whether you are trying to ‘be’ happy, be wise, be love – or be God – you cannot ‘get there’ by doing. And yet, it is true that you will be doing wonderful things once you ‘get there.'
Here is the Divine Dichotomy. The way to ‘get there’ is to ‘be there.’ Just be where you choose to get! It's that simple. There's nothing you have to do. You want to be happy? Be happy. You want to be wise? Be wise. You want to be love? Be love.
That is Who You Are in any event.
You are My Beloved.
Oh! I just lost my breath! You have such a wondrous way of putting things.
It is the truth that is eloquent. Truth has an elegance that startles the heart to its own reawakening.
That is what these Conversations with God have done. They have touched the heart of the human race, and reawakened it.
Now they lead you to a critical question. It is a question all of humanity must ask itself. Can, and will, you create a new cultural story? Can and will you devise a new First Cultural Myth, upon which all other myths are based?
Is the human race inherently good, or inherently evil?
This is the crossroads to which you have come. The future of the human race depends on which way you go.
If you and your society believe you are inherently good, you will make decisions and laws that are life affirming and constructive. If you and your society believe that you are inherently evil, you will make decisions and laws that are life denying and destructive.
Laws that are life affirming are laws that allow you to be, do, and have what you wish. Laws that are life denying are laws that stop you from being, doing, and having what you wish.
Those who believe in Original Sin, and that the inherent nature of man is evil, claim that God has created laws which stop you from doing as you wish – and promote human laws (an endless number of them) that seek to do the same.
Those who believe in Original Blessing, and that the inherent nature of man is good, proclaim that God has created natural laws which allow you to do as you wish – and promote human laws that seek to do the same. What is your viewpoint of the human race?
What is your viewpoint of your Self? Left entirely to your own devices, do you see yourself as being able to be trusted? In everything? How about others? How do you view them? Until they reveal themselves to you, one way or the other, what is your basic assumption?
Now, answer this. Do your assumptions further your society in breaking down, or breaking through?
I see my Self as trustworthy. I never did before, but now I do. I have become trustworthy, because I have changed my ideas on the kind of person I am. I am also clear now on what God wants, and what God doesn't want. I am clear about You. These Conversations with God have played a huge role in that change, in making that shift possible. And I now see in society what I see in myself – not something that is breaking down, but something that is breaking through. I see a human culture that is at last awakening to its divine heritage, aware of its divine purpose, and increasingly conscious of its divine Self.
If that is what you see, that is what you will create. Once you were lost, but now you are found. You were blind, but now you see. And this has been an amazing grace.
You have sometimes been apart from Me in your heart, but now We are whole again, and We can be forever. For what you have joined together, no one but you can put asunder.
Remember this: You are always a part, because you are never apart. You are always a part OF God, because you are never apart FROM God.
This is the truth of your being. We are whole. So now you know the whole truth. This truth has been food for the hungry soul. Take, and eat of it. The world has thirsted for this joy. Take, and drink of it. Do this in re-membrance of Me.
For truth is the body, and joy is the blood, of God, who is love.
Truth.
Joy.
Love.
These three are interchangeable. One leads to the other, and it matters not in which order they appear. All lead to Me. All are Me.
And so I end this dialogue as it began. As with life itself, it comes full circle. You have been given truth here. You have been given joy. You have been given love. You have been given here the answers to the largest mysteries of life. There is now only one question remaining. It is the question with which we began.
The question is not, to whom do I talk, but who listens?
Thank You. Thank You for talking to all of us. We have heard You, and we will listen. I love You. And as this dialogue ends, I am filled with truth, joy, and love. I am filled with You. I feel my Oneness with God.
That place of Oneness is heaven. You are there now. You are never not there, because you are never not One with Me.
This is what I would have you know. This is what I would have you take, at last, from this conversation.
And here is My message, the message I would seek to leave with the world:
My Children, who art in Heaven, hallowed is your name. Your kingdom is come, and your will is done, on Earth as it is in Heaven.
You are given this day your daily bread, and you are forgiven your debts, and your trespasses, exactly to the degree that you have forgiven those who trespass against you.
Lead your Self not into temptation, but deliver your Self from the evils you have created.
For thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory, forever.
Amen. And amen.
Go now, and change your world. Go now, and be your Highest Self. You understand now all that you need to understand. You know now all that you need to know. You are now all that you need to be.
You never were anything less. You simply did not know this. You did not remember it.
Now you remember. Seek to carry this remembrance with you always. Seek to share it with all those whose lives you touch. For yours is a destiny grander than you might ever have imagined.
You have come to the room to heal the room. You have come to the space to heal the space.
There is no other reason for you to be here.
And know this: I love you. My love is always yours, both now, and even forever more.
I am with you always. All ways.
Goodbye, God. Thank You for this dialogue. Thank You, thank You, thank You.
And you. My wonderful creation. Thank you. For you have given God a voice again – and a place in your heart. And that is all either of Us have ever really wanted. We are together again. And it is very good.
From Conversations With God Book Three, copyright 1998 by Neale Donald Walsch, published in the UK in 1999 by Hodder and Stoughton.
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