Post by dee on Jul 4, 2006 22:49:11 GMT -5
This is taken from page 134 of Conversations with God, by Neale Donald Walsch.
By that which you call evil do you define youreself, and by that which you call good.
The biggest evil would therefore be to declare nothing evil at all.
You exist in this life in the world of the relative, where one thing can exist insofar as it relates to another. This is at one and the same time both the function and the purpose of relationship: to provide a field of experience within which you find yourself, define yourself, and -- if you choose -- constantly recreate Who You Are.
Chooseing to be God-like does not mean you choose to be a martyr. And it certainly does not mean you choose to be a victim.
On your way to mastery -- when all possibility of hurt, damage, and loss is elimintated -- it would be well to recognize hurt, damage, and loss as part of your experience, and decide Who You Are in relationship to it.
Yes, the things that others think, say or do will sometimes hurt you -- until they do not anymore. What will get you from here to there most quickly is total honesty -- being willing to assert, acknowledge, and declare exactly how you feel about a thing. Say your truth -- kindly, but fully and completely. Live your truth, gently, but totally and consistently. Change your truth easily and quickly when your experience brings you new clarity.
No one in right mind, least of all God, would tell you, when you are hurt in a relationship, to "stand aside from it, cause it to mean nothing." If you are now hurting, it is too late to cuase it to mean nothing. Your task now is to decide what it does mean -- and to demonstrate that. For in so doing, you choose and become Who You Seek to Be.
By that which you call evil do you define youreself, and by that which you call good.
The biggest evil would therefore be to declare nothing evil at all.
You exist in this life in the world of the relative, where one thing can exist insofar as it relates to another. This is at one and the same time both the function and the purpose of relationship: to provide a field of experience within which you find yourself, define yourself, and -- if you choose -- constantly recreate Who You Are.
Chooseing to be God-like does not mean you choose to be a martyr. And it certainly does not mean you choose to be a victim.
On your way to mastery -- when all possibility of hurt, damage, and loss is elimintated -- it would be well to recognize hurt, damage, and loss as part of your experience, and decide Who You Are in relationship to it.
Yes, the things that others think, say or do will sometimes hurt you -- until they do not anymore. What will get you from here to there most quickly is total honesty -- being willing to assert, acknowledge, and declare exactly how you feel about a thing. Say your truth -- kindly, but fully and completely. Live your truth, gently, but totally and consistently. Change your truth easily and quickly when your experience brings you new clarity.
No one in right mind, least of all God, would tell you, when you are hurt in a relationship, to "stand aside from it, cause it to mean nothing." If you are now hurting, it is too late to cuase it to mean nothing. Your task now is to decide what it does mean -- and to demonstrate that. For in so doing, you choose and become Who You Seek to Be.
