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This is a conversation that takes place in Conversations with God book 1. It is about
a man who supposedly is speaking with god, and gets answers back. This man is Neale Donald
Walsch.
Neale: Why do some people, take Christ, for example, seem to hear more of Your communication
than others?
God: Because some people are willing to actually listen. They are willing to hear, and they
are willing to remain open to the communication
even when it seems scary, or crazy, or downright wrong.
Neale: We should listen to God even when what’s being said seems wrong?
God: Especially when it seems wrong. If you think you are right about everything, who
needs to talk with God?
Go ahead and act on all that you know. But notice that you’ve all been doing that since
time began. And look at what shape the world is
in. Clearly, you’ve missed something. Obviously, there is something you don’t understand.
That which you do understand must seem right to
you, because right is a term you use to designate something with which you agree. What
you’ve missed will, therefore, appear at first to be
The only way to move forward on this is to ask yourself, What would happen if everything
I thought was ‘wrong’ was actually ‘right’?
Every great scientist knows about this. When what
a scientist does is not working, a scientist sets aside all of the assumptions and starts
over. All great discoveries have been made from
a willingness, and ability, to not be right. And
that’s what’s needed here. You cannot know God until you’ve stopped
telling yourself that you already know God. You
cannot hear God until you stop thinking that you’ve already heard God.
I cannot tell you My Truth until you stop telling Me yours.
Neale: But my truth about God comes from You.
God: Who said so?
Neale: Others.
God: What others?
Neale: Leaders. Ministers. Rabbis. Priests. Books. The Bible, for heaven’s sake!
God: Those are not authoritative sources.
Neale: They aren’t?
God: No.
Neale: Then what is?
God: Listen to your feelings. Listen to your Highest Thoughts. Listen to your experience.
Whenever any one of these differ from what you’ve
been told by your teachers, or read in your books,
forget the words. Words are the least reliable purveyor of Truth.