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riendship with

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an uncommon dialogue

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Neale Donald Walsch

author of

Conversations with God

book 1

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book 2

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book 3

1999

www.universe-people.com

BOOKS BY NEALE DONALD WALSCH

Conversations with God, book 1Conversations with God, book 2Conversations with God, book 3Conversations with God, book 1 GuidebookMeditations from Conversations with God, book IMeditations from Conversations with God, book 2: A Persona/JournalThe Little Soul and the SunQuestions and Answers on Conversations with GodNeale Donald Walsch on RelationshipsNeale Donald Walsch on Abundance and Right LivelihoodNeale Donald Walsch on Holistic Living

Acknowledgments

I want to again acknowledge, first and foremost, my best friend, God. I am deeply grateful tohave found God in my life, deeply grateful to have made

friends

with God at last, and deeplygrateful for all that God

has

given me—and has given me a chance to give.

3 On a somewhat different plane, though no less heavenly, is my friendship with my partner and wife, Nancy who is a living definition of the word “blessing.” I have been blessed from themoment we met, and in every moment since.Nancy is an astonishing person. She radiates, from the heart of her being, a quietwisdom, endless patience, deep compassion, and the purest love I have ever known. In aworld of sometimes darkness, she is a bringer of the Light. To know her is to be reunitedagain with every thought I’ve ever had about all that is good and kind and beautiful; withevery hope I’ve ever held about gentle and supporting companionship; and with everyfantasy I’ve ever entertained about lovers truly in love.I am indebted to

all

the wonderful people who have impactedmy life and helped me in my work, modeling behaviors and attributes and ways of

being

thathave inspired and instructed me. Oh, what a priceless gift to have such teachers who showthe way! Among them, I am so grateful to...Kirsten Bakke, for defining absolute dependability, and showing me that spectacular, take-charge leadership never

has

to leave compassion, sensitivity, or caring behind.Rita Curtis, for demonstrating stunningly that personal power does not subtract fromfemininity one bit but adds to it

Ellen DeGeneres, for modeling human courage that most people do not think is possible,and for thus making

possible for every one of us.Bob Friedman, for showing me that integrity exists, indeed.Bill Griswold and Dan Higgs, for modeling what life-long friendship was meant to be.Jeff Golden, for showing me that searing brilliance, passionate conviction, and gentlepersuasion can go hand in hand.Patty Hammett, for demonstrating what love, loyalty and unwavering commitment are

all

about.Anne Heche, for modeling absolute authenticity, and how not to give it up for anything.Jerry Jampolsky and Diane Cirincione, for showing me that when humans are willing tolove, there is no limit to what can be compassionately created—and gently overlooked.Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, for showing me that

is possible to make a staggering contributionto an entire planet without being staggered, yourself, by

it.

Kaela Marshall, for always modeling forgiveness when faced with the unforgiveable,allowing me to believe God’s promise that there is redemption for us all.Scott McGuire, for demonstrating stunningly that sensitivity does not subtract frommasculinity one bit but adds to

it.

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101 Well, we humans like to do that. We like to

take

great truths and reduce them to simplisticconclusions. Then we can have really good arguments about them.I see. Is that your intention here? Do you wish to have an argument with Me?No. I really am trying to get at some wisdom here, in my own stumbling way.Then it would benefit you to listen to everything I am saying and to place all of My words intothat larger context, rather than create a meaning out of only a few of My words.I stand corrected.Do not stand corrected. Stand advised. A correction is for someone who has done wrong.Advice is for someone who is seeking direction.God gives direction, not correction; commendation, not condemnation.

Whew.

Oh, boy...I know, I know. Another bumper sticker.Well, it

is.

It really is!Make as many bumper stickers as you like. I-shirts, too.Get the word out. Stop at nothing. Do a movie. Go on television. Be shameless!While you’re at it, be shameless about love. Get the shame out of it, and replace it withcelebration you may want to do the same thing about sex.Let’s not get into that, or we’ll never get my question answered. Are You saying that being inthe arms of another is okay, as long as you’re honest about it?I am saying that a thing is okay or not okay depending on what you decide about it. I amsaying that people in relationship cannot even know if it is okay with them if they do not knowthat it is occurring.I am saying that what does not work in highly evolved relationships is lying—about anything. Iam saying that lying is lying, whether it is by commission or omission. And I am saying thatonce the whole truth is told, your decision about whether you can love a person who hasloved, or is now loving, another is ultimately based on what you declare to be your mostappropriate and comfortable form of relationship—and that this will be based, in most cases,on what you imagine that you need from another person in order to be happy.I am saying that if you need nothing, then you can love another unconditionally, without anylimitations whatsoever. You can grant them total freedom.Yes, but then you wouldn’t be in a life partnership with them.You wouldn’t, unless you would. Mastery is reached when this becomes a decision and achoice based on what is true for you, rather than what someone else has told you ought to betrue, or on what your society has established as its current convention around lifepartnerships, or on what you feel others may think of you.

102 Masters give themselves the freedom to make any choice they wish—and give those theylove the same freedom.Freedom is the basic concept and construct of life everywhere, because freedom is the basicnature of God. All systems which reduce, restrict, impinge upon, or eliminate freedom in anyway are systems which work against life itself.Freedom is not the

goal

of the human soul, but its very nature. By

nature the

soul is free.Lack of freedom is, therefore, a violation of the very nature of the soul. In truly enlightenedsocieties, freedom is not recognized as a right, but as a fact. It is something that

is,

rather than something that is

given.

Freedom is not granted, but rather,

taken

for granted.What is observable in enlightened societies is that all beings are free to love each other, andto express and demonstrate that love to each other, in whatever way is authentic and trueand appropriate to the moment.The people who decide what is appropriate to the moment are the people doing the loving.There are no laws of government, societal taboos, religious restrictions, psychologicalbarriers, tribal customs, or unspoken rules and regulations regarding who, when, where, andhow one may love, and who, when, where, and how one may not.Yet here is the key that makes this work in highly evolved societies.

All

the parties who are inlove must decide what love would do now. One party may not decide to do somethingbecause he thinks it is loving, if there is no agreement from the other party or parties. All theparties must also be adult and mature and capable of making such decisions for themselves.This eliminates all the questions you just had in your head about child abuse, rape, and other forms of personal violation.What if I am a third party, and I don’t think that what

two

other people have decided is lovingis very loving toward me?Then you must tell the other parties how you feel about it, what your truth is. And, dependingupon how they respond to your truth, you can decide what changes, if any, you wish to makein the form of your relationship with them.But what if it’s not all that easy? What if I need them?The less you need from someone, the more you can love them.How can you need nothing from someone you love?By loving them not for what they can give you, but simply for who they are.But then they could walk all over you!Loving another does not mean that you must stop loving yourself.Granting another full freedom does not mean granting them the right to abuse you, nor doesit mean sentencing yourself to a prison of your own device, in which you live a life you would

103not choose, in order that another may live a life that they do. Yet granting full freedom doesmean placing no limitations of any kind upon another.Wait a minute. How can you stop another from walking

all

over you if you don’t place anylimitations on them?You do not place limitations on

them,

you place limitations on

yourself

You limit what

you

choose to experience, not what

another

is allowed to experience.This limitation is voluntary, and so, in a very real sense, it is not a limitation at all. It is adeclaration of Who You Are. It is a creation. A definition.No one, and nothing, is limited in God’s kingdom. And love knows nothing but freedom. Nor does the soul. Nor does God. And these words are all interchangeable. Love.Freedom. Soul. God. All carry aspects of the other. All

are

the other.You are free to announce and declare Who You Are in every moment of Now. Indeed, youare doing so, without even knowing it. You are not free, however, to declare who someoneelse is, or who they must be. This, love would never do. Nor would God, who is the essenceof love itself.If you wish to announce and declare that you are a person who needs and requires theexclusive love of another in order to be happy, in order to feel comfortable and appropriateand secure, you are free to announce that. You will show it with your actions in any event;they will be your announcement.If you wish to announce and declare that you are a person who needs and requires thelargest portion of the time and energy and focus of another in order to be happy, in order tofeel comfortable and appropriate and secure, you are free to announce that, too. Yet I will tellyou this: if you allow your declaration of Self to translate into jealousy of another, or of another’s friends or job or hobby and outside interests, your jealousy will end your love, andmay very well end that other’s love for you.The good news is that defining who you are, and who you choose to be, does not have totranslate into jealousy of another, nor into control over them. It simply and lovingly states whoyou are, and how you choose Life to be for you. Your love for another goes on, even as youlovingly and compassionately work through whatever differences may exist between you, andhowever you change the nature of your relationship as a result of those differences.You do not have to end a relationship in order to change

it.

Indeed, you cannot end arelationship, but can only alter it. You always have a relationship with everyone. The questionis not whether you have a relationship, but what kind of relationship do you have?Your answer to this question will affect your life forever—and, indeed, could truly change theworld.(9)

Nine

104I have learned throughout my conversations with You that my relationships are sacred. Theyare the most important aspects of life, because it is through relationships that I express andexperience who I am, and who I choose to be.And not merely your relationships with other people, but your relationships with everythingeverywhere. Your relationship with Life, and all the elements of Life. Your relationship withmoney, love, sex, and God—the four cornerstones of the human experience. Your relationship with trees, plants, animals, birds, wind, air, sky, and sea, Your relationship withnature, and your relationship with Me.My relationship with everything determines who and what I am. Relationship, You have toldme, is holy ground. Because in the absence of a relationship with something else, I cannotcreate, know, and experience anything I have decided about myself. Or, as You have put it,

in the absence a/that which I Am Not, that which I Am.., is not.

You have learned well, My friend. You are becoming a messenger.Yet as I try to explain this to others, they sometimes get lost. This concept doesn’t alwayseasily translate.Try using the Parable of Whiteness.Yes, that helped me immediately.Imagine that you are in a white room, with white walls, white floor, white ceiling, no corners.Imagine that you are suspended in this space by some invisible force. You are danglingthere, in mid-air. You cannot touch anything, you cannot hear anything, and all you see iswhiteness. How long do you think that you will “exist” in your own experience?Not very long. I’d exist there, but I wouldn’t know anything about myself Pretty soon, I’d goout of my mind.Actually, that’s exactly what you would do. You would, literally, leave your mind. Your mind isthe part of you that is assigned the task of making sense out of all incoming data, and withoutany data incoming, your mind has nothing to do.Now, the moment you go out of your mind, you cease to exist in your own experience. Thatis, you cease to know anything in particular about yourself.Are you big? Are you small? You cannot know, because there is nothing outside of yourself with which to compare yourself.Are you good? Are you evil? You cannot know. Are you even here? You cannot know,because there is nothing over there.You cannot know anything about yourself in your own experience. You can conceptualize itall you want, but you cannot experience it.Then something happens to change all this. There appears a tiny dot on the wall. It’s as if someone has come along with a fountain pen and squirted a tiny dot of ink. Nobody knowshow the dot actually got there, but it doesn’t matter, because the dot has saved you.Now, there is something else. There is You, and there is the Dot On The Wall. Suddenly, youcan make some decisions again, you can have some experiences again. The dot is over

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121“Why not? I can see where your heart is, and there’s no point in keeping you here, countingthe days until you can get over there. So go ahead.”Jay stuck his hand out, and I shook it. “I’ve enjoyed this,” he smiled. “Cub reporter tomanaging editor. It’s been quite a ride for you.“Yeah.”“We’ve had a good ride, too. Thanks for taking us along.”“No, thanks for taking

along.” I choked up. “Thanks for giving me a chance. I reallyneeded that job when you gave it to me. I’ll never forget that. I don’t know how I can ever repay something like that.”“I do,” Jay said.“How?”“Pass it on.”That was it. How could I leave this guy? How could I abandon the paper? Jay saw the lookon my face. “Don’t even think about it,” he said. “Pack your stuff and get out of here.”Then he was gone. Just like that. Out of my office,

and

out the door to the street. But as heleft, he said over his shoulder, “Don’t look back, friend. Never look back.”That was the last time I saw him.He gave you good advice.Really? We should never look back, ever? There’s nothing to gain from looking back?He meant, “No second guesses.” Move forward with no second-guessing, no

guirt

trips, nohesitation. Your life is out in front of you, not behind you. What you’ve done is what you’vedone. You can’t change that. But you can move forward.Yes, but isn’t it okay to have regrets?As long as you don’t confuse regret with guilt. They are not the same. Regret is your announcement that you did not demonstrate your highest idea about who you are. Guilt isyour decision that you are not worthy of doing so ever again.Your society and your religions teach you of a guilt which requires you to be punished withouthope of rehabilitation. Yet I tell you this: the purpose of life is to recreate yourself anew ineach moment, in the next grandest version of the greatest vision ever you held about WhoYou Are.In this, I have joined you as cocreator, seeing where you are going, seeing the path you haveset for yourself, and giving you the tools to experience exactly what you needed to

122experience, to create exactly what you needed to create. All of this has been called forth byyou and Me together.Whose “will” is it, then?I tell you that it is Divine Will. Remember this, always:

Your Will and Mine is that will which is Divine.

Oh, man, that’s wonderful. Wow. That says it, doesn’t it? That puts it

all

together. You have away of doing that. You have a way of putting it

all

in ten words or less. That’s another way of saying something You said in

Conversations with God:

“Your will for you is My will for you.”Yes.But you said something back there that struck me. You said that I have simply been “usingGod” to make my life happen. Somehow, that doesn’t seem right. I mean, it doesn’t feel asthough that’s the kind of relationship I’m supposed to have with You.Why not?I don’t know, exactly. But somewhere mixed in there are some things I’ve been taught aboutbeing here to serve God. When I was at St. Lawrence Elementary School in Milwaukee and Iwas really thinking that I was going into the seminary, I remember the nuns talking about Godusing me to serve God’s purpose. There was never any talk about my using God to serve mypurpose.And yet, this is how I would have it be.It is? You would?Yes.You want us to use You? We are not here for You to use us?Part of the problem in understanding this, in straightening this out, is that this conversation isbeing constructed on top of a separation paradigm. That is, we are talking as if you and Iwere somehow separate from each other— which is, of course, how most of the human racethinks of it. It is how most people imagine their relationship with God to be. So it may beuseful to talk within that paradigm if it allows for greater understanding, but I just want to notethat we are speaking of the illusion here, not reality, not what is real.I understand. 1 agree that there may be some benefit in speaking in illusory terms about lifeinside “the illusion.” I am clear that all life on Earth is illusory. I know now, and often deeplyexperience, the Ultimate Reality of Oneness, with You and with everything and everyone. Butit is helpful to sometimes discuss things within the framework of my—and many people’s—lesser understandings. Speaking within that framework, are we not here for You to use us?If you were there for Me to use you, why is the world the way it is? Could it be that this iswhat I had in mind?

Or could

it be that this is

what you’ve had in mind?

I tell you this: it is thelatter, and not the former.The world around you is exactly what you’ve had in mind.

123 I’m going to say that again, because there’s a possibility you may have missed it. I said,

The world around you is exactly what you’ve had in mind.

What you have

carried in your mind

about the world is what you will see around the world.What you carry in your mind about your life is what you will see in your life.If I have been using you for My purposes (as you have framed them in your limitedunderstanding), I must be a very inefficient God. I can’t seem to get anything done! Evenusing you as My Messenger and assistant, even sending to Earth My only begotten Son (assome of you would have it), I have been unable to turn the tide, to change the course of events, to create the world of My desires. Could it be that My purpose has been to create theworld as it is? Of course not... unless... My purpose has been for

you

to create the world asyou

choose.

that

case, you

have

served My purpose, and I

have

been “using” you.Yet you have also been “using” Me, because it is only through the creative power that resideswithin you—power given to you by Me—that you have been able to create the world of your dreams.This is the world of my dreams?If you had not dreamed it, it could not be.Many days, this seems like the world of my worst nightmares.Nightmares are dreams as well. They are particular kinds of dreams.How do I get rid of them?Change your mind about what you

hold

in mind about the world. It is part of that sameprocess of which I spoke earlier. Think about what you’re going to think about. Think onthings good and wondrous. Think of moments of splendor, visions of glory, expressions of love.“Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven, and all else will be added unto you.Exactly.And use You, use God, in the process?God

the process. The process is what I Am. It is the process you call Life. You cannot notuse Me. You can only not know that you are. Yet if you use Me consciously, if you use Mewith awareness and with intention, all things will change.This is Step Five in creating a friendship with God. Use God.Please tell me how to do that. It still seems so strange to think of it in those terms. I need Youto help me understand what it means to use God.It means to use all the tools and gifts I have given you.The gift of creative energy, which allows you to form your reality and create your experiencewith your thoughts, words, and deeds.

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