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For those of you who have had the pleasure of reading "Conversations with God" or not, the following is a letter to the world from the author...it eloquently reiterates the themes in the texts.
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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