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Neale Donald Walsch Neale Donald Walsch conversationalist. author. spiritual messenger.

A modern day spiritual messenger, bestselling author Neale Donald Walsch founded the Conversations with God Foundation, dedicated to inspiring the world to move toward peace, clarity, and love. [www.nealedonaldwalsch.com]

The only way I know to live a continuously peaceful, joyous life is to talk with God every day. Before, when I didn’t do that, I felt life as a heaviness too much of the time. I thought I had to “do life” all by myself, that I was essentially alone – one person working against virtually insurmountable odds. That’s an illusion, and even though I knew then that it was an illusion, I still used to fall into it. Now, since I’ve gotten into the habit of talking with God every day – and listening to what God has to say to me – I find myself residing in an optimistic, happy, stable place in my moment-to-moment experience, and moving forward with my life in a confident, easy way. So every day, I create a two-way connection with God – not just a one-way prayer or supplication.

As for making my life meaningful, the only way I know to live a meaningful life is to understand and embrace the meaning OF life. To do this, I make sure my daily conversation with God includes asking the Four Fundamental Questions of Life: Who am I? Where am I? Why am I where I am? and What can I do about that?

Every day, with Her answers, God reminds me of what He knows will be helpful for me to remember: (1) I am an Individuation of Divinity; (2) I am in the Realm of Physicality, a part of the Kingdom of God (or what some of us call “Heaven”); (3) I am in this Realm because it is here (and only here) that life can express and experience itself in relative terms, which is necessary if I am to do what I came here to do; and (4) I can (and now choose to) use this physical life to express and experience the next grandest version of the greatest vision ever held about Who I Am. In short, I ask my Universal Self to remind my Local Self that I have come into physicality in order that God might know Itself in Its Own Experience.

Finally, it also makes my life meaningful to do whatever I can to remind others that they, too, are Aspects of Divinity. I call this “giving people back to themselves,” and it is a mission of my life.

– Neale Donald Walsch

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