How To Forgive Someone | Neale Donald Walsch

We were having dinner as a family, my kids were there, and this guy tried to grab my iPhone from the table right now. Firstly, it was stupid of me to be leaving my iPhone directly on a table. We were eating outdoors in Barcelona. I happened to push him away, and then he went off that. There was a part of me that wanted to tackle him to the ground and have my friends call the cops so he wouldn't do that to other people. Right. Would that be counter to being a highly evolved being, tackling this man to the ground and calling the cops? I'm asking because I don't know.

See, everything is contextual. Things happen in context. In a society of highly evolved beings. It never would have happened to begin with. He wouldn't have reached for your phone. If he reached for your phone and you pushed him away, I would probably not go after him and tackle him to stop him from doing it to someone else. I would probably. I would have. I would have stopped him and I would have said, hold it, sir. You don't have to run away. Hold it. You don't have to run away. Would you like some money? You want some cash? Are you in such trouble in your life that you actually want to steal my phone? Hold it just a second. I've got €300 for you if you'll just stop where you are. And by the way, whether he stopped or not, that would have been a huge message for everybody in the restaurant. Even if he didn't stop, even if he kept on running, everybody in the restaurant would have gone. Did that guy just offer the potential thief €300 to stop running? Giving him a reward to not get away? And if he did stop, I'd say, come on over here, pal. Come on. Hey, look, you know what? If things are so tough for you that you have to violate your inner sense of who you are, because I know that deep down inside, like all of us, you're a wonderful person. There are people who love you, people that you love. I'm sure you're just. You're no less wonderful than I am. But you may have had a tougher life, a few tougher breaks that I didn't have. If you feel so desperate in your life that you have to reach over my shoulder and try to grab my property off the table, I'll give it to you. I really need my phone because, you know, all my data is here. But if you want enough money to buy your own phone, and a couple of them, or two or three if you want. Here, look. What do you need? Take it from me. I mean, literally, take it from me. You don't need to do this. There are other ways to experience the wonder and the glory of who you are. And if you'll promise to me and give me your deep soul promise that you won't take anyone else's property ever again, I'll double what I just gave you. How about €600? Come on, we'll go to the ATM, we'll get it out of the machine. I'm not kidding. I'm not kidding. I'm not going to report you to the police. I'm going to report you to yourself. I'm going to give you a chance to report in. Who am I really? This guy sees me. This guy sees me as who I really am. That's what I would have done. Wow.

That. Obviously I have a lot to learn, but I wanted to bring that up because I didn't want people there hearing what you just said about highly evolved beings not practicing violence and go, oh, I know that. What I wanted you guys to get a sense of is that to really know that you are operating in a way that is so counterintuitive to what our societies and our rules and maybe even how we've been brought up to operate.

I gotta tell you that I was in one of the third world countries, frankly, at forgot where I was. I think it was near Machu Picchu. But in any event, I was in a third world country where I was going to give a talk. Yes. But on the way there, there was a little festival, a street festival where the little artisans, the locals, the local people had made little handkerchiefs and little caps and gloves and things that knitted and all these wonderful artifacts, and they were selling them on the street off their table. And so I was traveling with some people who were with me, some companions, and. And so they were saying, oh, look at that, that's beautiful. So how much? How much? And the lady would say, you know, I'm going to make it up, you know, 20 pesos. And the guy would say, I'll give you 15. And I said, why? And he was bidding her down. When she said, oh, okay, okay, okay, 15 pesos. He said, 10. And he was bidding her down. I said, wait a minute, wait a minute. I said, what are you doing? I said, what was the original price? She said, 20 pesos. I said, I'll give you 40. She looked at me, she said, what? No, just 20, senor. Just 20. I'll give you 40. Okay, okay, 40 pesos. I said, you take 40. She said, yes, I gave you 60. I'm bidding her up no matter what. She accepted. I doubled it. I bit her up. And the guy next to me thought, this guy's crazy. And I thought, what am I doing on this street where I earn more money in a day than she will earn in a year? And I'm trying to get her to come down on her price. A scarf that she took two hours or more to make. Come on, wake up. Stop it. Just stop it.