A first-person spiritual monologue by Neale Donald Walsch urging listeners to live as their divine, self-sufficient nature rather than as isolated individuals seeking external validation or resources. Walsch explains that life is about the impact on others and recommends using life events as opportunities to demonstrate inner qualities (compassion, wisdom, generosity), which will in turn transform relationships and external circumstances.
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If you're God, then you clarify it. Help me out here. What does it take to make life work? I can remember sitting on the couch, crying out at 4 o' clock in the morning, what do you want from me? What don't I get here? God said Neil, it's really very simple. You think your life is about you and your life has nothing to do with you. It's about everyone whose life you touch and the way in which you touch it. My life isn't about me. Yes, it's about universal you in the sense that you and everyone else are one, but it's not about individual, localized you, the you you think of as Neo. I've given you everything you need. You simply haven't used what I've given you. Compassion, awareness, intelligence, indeed wisdom, clarity, understanding, generosity. All the wonderful things you think of as being supremely human, but you have imagined that your life is about you. So you think you've got to somehow gather these things you think you don't have, or somehow find a way to make yourself secure in a world that doesn't see you as who you really are. So you've got to do stuff to earn money and you've got to do stuff to earn love, and you have to do stuff to make relationships work and all these things you have to do, and all you would really have to do if you really got it, was just be who you are, the divine being who you are, and use life's events as opportunities with which to do that. And if you simply did that, you would find that everything else that you thought you had to strain for and stress for and struggle for would fall in on you automatically. I began to live my life as if my life had nothing to do with me, as if I needed nothing, required nothing, lacked nothing, demanded nothing, even in a sense, requested nothing, but simply chose to use the days and times, the minutes, the hours, the events of my life as opportunities for me to demonstrate that I already have all of that, that I am the source of it, that I am not looking for some other person, place or event to source it to me, but that I am the source of all the things I thought I needed to struggle and strain for. I need nothing from you. Not your admiration, not your love, not your approval, certainly not your physical things. I don't need your money, I don't need your car, I don't need your house. I don't. I don't need your body. I don't need anything. Honestly, I need nothing from you. And the extraordinary thing about that is, should you live your life that way? Even a few hours here or there, that way, it's an amazing thing that will happen. People will suddenly look at you. First they'll say, what are you? What are you smoking? But after they get that, no, this is the new you. This is the transformed you. This is the evolved you. You finally, after all these years, figured out what you're doing here. Can you believe the highest thought you ever dared to hold about yourself? And then if you actually embrace and hold that thought, thought as your truth, I'm not making it up. I'm not imagining it. I'm not spinning out here. This is actually what's true about me. Then, when you embrace that highest, grandest thought you ever had about yourself, then you can embrace that thought about others as well. Sa.
