“The reality of God will not be found in your previous ideas, but in your present moment experience.”
- Your mind holds the past, your body holds the present, and your soul holds the future.
- The mind analyses and remembers, the body experiences and feels, and the soul observes and knows.
- If you want to access what you remember about God, look to your mind.
- If you want to access what you feel about God, look to your body.
- If you want to access what you know about God, look to your soul.
Your soul talks through your body, which gives you a here-and-now experience of your truth. If you want to know your truth on any subject, look to your feelings. Checking in with your body is the fastest way to doing this.
- The “Tummy Test” – there’s an old saying, “The tummy knows.”
Your soul knows everything – past, present, and future. It knows who you are, and who you seek to be.
- It knows God intimately, because it is the part of God that is closest to you.
- So to know God, all you have to do is truly know your own soul.
- To have a friendship with God, all you really have to do is have a friendship with your Self.
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How can you have a friendship with your Self? At best, what some people have is a truce
- Become clear about Who Your Really Are – and who you are not.
- Once you know Who You Really Are, you’ll fall in love with your Self.
- Once you fall in love with your Self, you’ll fall in love with God
Confusion is the first step toward wisdom. Folly is thinking you have all the answers.
A big ego is not a sign that one likes oneself, but just the opposite.
- If people “brag” and Show off” a lot, it raises the question, what do they dislike about themselves so much that they feel they have to get others to like them to compensate?
- I observe that true self-love disappears the ego, it does not enlarge it. Put another way, the larger your understanding of Who you Really Are, the smaller your ego.
- When you know Who You Really Are fully, your ego is fully gone.
- Your ego is who you think that you are. It has nothing to do with Who You Really Are.
craving and resource from “Friendship with God” by Neale Donald Walsch
