We are all here for a reason and we are all an important part of the whole
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Our sacred journey is to experience and express Who We Really Are…
- Every event of life is a miracle, as is life itself. Life is designed to provide your soul with the perfect tools, the perfect circumstances, the perfect conditions with which to realise and experience, announce and declare, fulfil and become Who You Really Are. Neale Donald Walsch
- Your purpose is to create and recreate yourself anew in each golden moment of Now in the next grandest version of the greatest vision you have ever held about Who You Really Are. To announce and become, express and fulfil, experience and know your true Self. Neale Donald Walsch
- It is the purpose of your soul to announce and declare, to be and to express, to experience and to fulfil Who You Really Are. And who is that? Whoever you say you are! Your life lived is your declaration. Your choices define you. Every act is an act of self definition. Neale Donald Walsch
- The point of life therefore is to create who and what you are, and then to experience that. Neale Donald Walsch
- Life in the physical realm is glorious, and its purpose is to bring you happiness through the awareness of who you really are. So go into this magnificent world of your creation, and make your lifetime an extraordinary statement and experience of the most glorious idea that you have ever had about yourself. Neale Donald Walsch
- There is only one reason to do anything… as a statement to the Universe of who you are. Neale Donald Walsch
- I am not my past. I am not my yesterdays. I am not what I did yesterday, what I said yesterday, what I thought yesterday. I am the grandest version of the greatest vision I’ve ever had about who I am. Creating myself anew in the golden moment of now. Neale Donald Walsch
- Do not waste the precious moments of this, your present reality, seeking to unveil all of life’s secrets. Those secrets are a secret for a reason. Grant your God the benefit of the doubt. Use your NOW moment for the Highest Purpose – the creation and the expression of Who You Really Are. Decide who you are – who you want to be-and then do everything in your power to be that. Neale Donald Walsch
- Now, having seen the differences between where you are and where you want to be, begin to change—consciously change—your thoughts, words, and actions to match your grandest vision. Neale Donald Walsch
- Your job on Earth, therefore, is not to learn (because you already know), but to remember Who You Are. And to remember who everyone else is. Neale Donald Walsch
- Each person’s life – each lifeform, in fact – represents a world, a unique way in which the universe experiences itself. Eckhart Tolle
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… to allow our souls to evolve and grow
- The spiritual being sees the physical world as an arena for growth and learning with the specific purpose of serving and evolving into higher levels of love. Wayne Dyer
- Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of consciousness. Eckhart Tolle
- Life is a chance to grow a soul. Powell Davies
- The spiritual being sees the physical world as an arena for growth and learning with the specific purpose of serving and evolving into higher levels of love. Wayne Dyer
- Every problem is an assignment designed by your soul.
- There comes a time in the evolution of every soul when the chief concern is no longer the survival of the physical body, but the growth of the spirit; no longer the attainment of worldly success, but the realization of Self. Neale Donald Walsch
- The soul is very clear that its purpose is evolution…it is not concerned with the achievements of the body or the development of the mind. These are all meaningless to the soul. Neale Donald Walsch
- The meaning of earthly existence lies, not as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Your soul already knows that, what it needs is to use the long journey to be able to grow, stretch along the horizon, touch the sky. Paulo Coelho
- Let your soul be an oasis of transformation that takes your life to the next level and fulfills your dreams. Rejoice in your awakening, the future is now and love is in every breath you take. Micheal Teal
- The soul was never put in the body…to stand still. John Webster
- We are on this earth in bodies because our souls have things to learn that we could not learn in any other way. Jamie Windsong Kasper
- I count life just a stuff to try the soul’s strength on. Robert Browning
- Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls. Antoine de Saint- Exupéry
- Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time. Timothy Leary
- It would be idle to say that life is a steady progression in happiness. But it is most certain that in the natural course of things a healthy soul grows continually richer until its latest day on earth. George S. Merriam
- You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul. Swami Vivekananda
- Growth, Evolution
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…to know ourselves as God
- It is through the world and ultimately through you that the Unmanifested knows itself. You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are! Eckhart Tolle
- My purpose in creating you, My spiritual offspring, was for Me to know myself as God. I have no way to do that save through you. Thus it can be said that My purpose for you is that You should know yourself as Me. Neale Donald Walsch
- We are all God, Godding – experiencing Our Self through the experiencing of Our parts. We are God expressing Our Self. Neale Donald Walsch
- No individual can ultimately fail. The Divinity which descends into humanity is bound to re-gain its original state. N. Sri Ram
- The ultimate purpose of our life is to rejoin God in conscious participation of divinity. Edgar Cayce
- The question ‘Who am I?’ is not an idle one. How you answer the question will determine how you live the rest of your life. It will determine the quality of your life. Neale Donald Walsch
- The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too. Teresa of Avila
- We are all just walking each other home. Ram Das
- Each of us is here to discover our higher self or our spiritual self. We must find out for ourself that inside us is a god or goddess in embryo that wants to be born so that we can express our divinity. Deepak Chopra
- The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself. Carl Sagan
- God
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… to know ourselves as the “light”…
- The parable of the soul and the sun: There was once a soul who knew itself to be the light. This was a new soul, and so, anxious for experience. “I am the light,” it said. “I am the light.” Yet all the knowing of it and the all the saying of it could not substitute for the experience of it. For in the realm from which the this little soul emerged, there was nothing BUT the light. Every soul was magnificent and shone with the brilliance of My awesome light. And so the little soul in question was as a candle in the sun. In the midst of the grandest light, of which it was a part, it could not see itself, nor experience itself as Who It Really Is. Now it came to pass that this soul yearned and yearned to know itself. And so great was its yearning that I one day said “Do you know, Little One, what you must do to satisfy this yearning of yours? You must separate yourself from the rest of us and then you must call upon yourself the darkness.” “What is the darkness, oh Holy One?” the little soul asked. “That which you are not.” I replied, and the little soul understood. And so this the soul did, removing itself from all Yea, and going even unto another realm. And in this realm, the soul had the power to call into its experience all sorts of darkness. And this it did. And yet in the midst of all the darkness did it cry out, “Father, father, why have you forsaken me?” But I have never forsaken you, but stand by you always, ready to remind you of Who You Really Are, ready, always ready to call you home. Neale Donald Walsch
- In creating “something else” – namely the realm of the relative – we have produced an environment in which we may choose to be God, rather than simply be told that we are God, in which we may experience our Godness as an act of creation, rather than conceptualisation, in which the little candle in the sun – the littlest soul – can know itself as the light. Neale Donald Walsch
- Just like a sunbeam can’t separate itself from the sun, and a wave can’t separate itself from the ocean, we can’t separate ourselves from one another. We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind. Marianne Williamson
- From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all. Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own Being. Hafez
- There is a light which cannot ever be extinguished. It is inside of you. It is you. Neale Donald Walsch
- Within each of us is a light, awake, encoded in the fibers of our existence. Divine ecstasy is the totality of this marvelous creation experienced in the hearts of humanity. Tony Samara
- One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. Carl Jung
- If there is darkness in the world it is simply because we have chosen not to turn on the light; the light within… Robert Beno
- Light
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… and to kindle and shine that light for the benefit of all
- As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. Carl Jung
- Be a Bringer of the Light. For your light can do more than illuminate your own path. Your light can be the light which truly lights the world. Neale Donald Walsch
- We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light. Earl Nightingale
- The windows of my soul I throw wide open to the sun. John Greenleaf Whittier
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We have forgotten who we are in order that we may discover it and experience it for ourselves
- Life is a cosmic game of hide and seek in which we lose ourselves to find ourselves. Deepak Chopra
- We are actors in a play who have forgotten they are in a play. Swami Premodaya
- Know that this universe is nothing but a dream bluff of nature to test your consciousness of immortality. Paramahansa Yogananda
- Discovery, Awakening
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To see who you are, you must first discover who you are not
- In the seeing of who you are not, the reality of who you are emerges by itself. Eckhart Tolle
- To know what you are, you must first investigate and know what you are not. Nisargadatta Maharaj
- You cannot experience that Which You Are in the absence of that which you are not. Therefore, know that when you experience that which you are not, it is not a failure to experience but a way to experience That Which You Are. Neale Donald Walsch
- Life may more than once call upon you to prove Who You Are by demonstrating an aspect of Who You Are Not. Neale Donald Walsch
- What you are is that which notices what you are not. Michael Jeffreys
- The flower of consciousness needs the mud out of which it grows. Eckhart Tolle
- To see what you’re not makes you available to what you are. Adyashanti
- You cannot know yourself. You can only know what you’re not. Eckhart Tolle
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It takes darkness to become aware of and see the light
- You can’t have a light without a dark to stick it in. Arlo Guthrie
- It takes darkness to be aware of the light. Treasure Tatum
- Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light. Meister Eckhart
- Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner. Eric Hoffer
- Beauty I have learned from the ugly, charity from the unkind, and peace from the turmoil of the world. Frederick Ward Kates
- Without the desert…there is no oasis. Abraham Barzali
- If God created the shadows, it was to bring out the light. John XXIII
- There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. Buddha
- There is strong shadow where there is much light. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. Buddha
- Darkness, Light
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Therefore, we must not curse the darkness but be a light unto it
- Be a light unto the darkness, and curse it not. Neale Donald Walsch
- Let thy light shine, then, in dark places. Edgar Cayce
- The light at the end of the tunnel is not an illusion… the tunnel is.
- I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars. Og Mandino
- Your path is illuminated by the light. Yet darkness lets the stars shine bright. L.W. Brooks
- Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. Mark Twain
- Only in the darkness can you see the stars. Martin Luther King Jr.
- Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light. Francine Rivers
- Darkness cannot put out the Light. It can only make God brighter.
- We are all the Light. Light is all we are. But we have been placed in a relative realm (a world of light and dark) so we can experience who we are and who we are not. Neale Donald Walsch
- Evil needs to be understood for what it is: the dynamic of the absence of Light. It is not something that one should prepare to battle, to run from, or to outlaw. Gary Zukav
- God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God. Albert Einstein
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There is both light and darkness in all of us
- Nothing is not the opposite of everything. Dark is not the opposite of light. Good is not the opposite of bad. They are all the same coin, the head is inseparable from the tail. Yin is entirely dependent on Yang to exist. All opposites arise and fall away together. So, running away is also running toward. Silence is sound, stillness movement. Nothing is everything. Mike Jenkins
- I believe that within each of us lies the essence of the universe. I am the sinner, the saint, the depraved and the righteous. I am everything that is good and holy; Buddha Nature. I am also ignorance, the reactive mind; the Shadow. Today I love and accept. Tomorrow I judge and expect. I live in a sea of change; sometimes floating in calm serenity, sometimes clinging, gasping, drowning through the storms of my life. Most importantly, (I have come to believe) I am the Observer, pure consciousness…connected forever to the Unified Field, to Brahman, to God…and so are you. Martin Prihoda
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We uncover who we are by unshedding all that is untrue within us
- The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed – it is a process of elimination. Elbert Hubbard
- What you seek is already within you. You uncover it by shedding all that is untrue within you. Sampo Kaasila
- The real can be known only through the illusion. You cannot know the truth directly. First you have to know that which is not true. First you have to encounter the untrue. Through that encounter you become capable of knowing the truth. If you know the false as the false, truth will dawn upon you. Osho
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We are here to create ourselves
- The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself. Deepak Chopra
- Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself. Erich Fromm
- The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore not to find out Who You Are but determine Who You Want to Be. Neale Donald Walsch
- Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George Bernard Shore
- Life is a creative process, not a journey of discovery or a school of learning. You’re not discovering yourself, but recreating yourself. So don’t try and figure out who you are, but establish who you want to be. You create your reality every minute, probably without realizing it. You can be, do, and have whatever you can imagine. Didn’t I say you were gods? Neale Donald Walsch
- It is not God’s function to create or uncreate the circumstances of your life. God created you in the likeness of God. You have created the rest, through the power God has given you. God has given you the free choice to create with life as you will. Neale Donald Walsch
- There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation. Henri Bergson
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We are here to enable consciousness to flow
- Opening yourself to the emerging consciousness and bringing its light into this world then becomes the primary purpose of your life. Not your aims or your actions are primary, but the state of consciousness out of which they come. Eckhart Tolle
- Be true to life by being true to your inner purpose. As you become present and thereby total in what you do, your actions become charged with spiritual power. At first there may be no noticeable change in what you do—only the how changes. Your primary purpose is now to enable consciousness to flow into what you do. Eckhart Tolle
- Consciousness is the intelligence, the organizing principle behind the arising of form. Consciousness has been preparing forms for millions of years so that it can express itself through them in the manifested. Eckhart Tolle
- You are not here to merely survive but to soar, to express and release the dynamic power of consciousness residing at the deepest center of your being. Michael Bernard Beckwith
- Molecules dissolve and pass away, but consciousness survives the death of the matter on which it rides. Deepak Chopra
- Remember, we are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we’re so deeply interconnected with one another. Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is the supreme creative act. Ram Dass
- Consciousness, Meaning, Purpose
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We exist to inspire others in their lives…
- To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground. Stephen Covey
- I am burning. If anyone lacks tinder, let him set his rubbish ablaze with my fire. Rumi
- Every day I expand in creativity, love, kindness, generosity and abundance as I inspire those around me to do the same. Gay Hendricks
- A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself. Oprah Winfrey
- He tries to show each person how much they are capable of achieving. Paulo Coelho
- If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality. Norman Cousins
- Making a difference
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…through the example of our own
- The world needs demonstration more than it needs teaching. Wallace D. Wattles
- The best and only thing one artist can do for another is to serve as an example and an inspiration. Steven Pressfield
- The best sermon is a good example. Benjamin Franklin
- You become an inspirational person by setting your goals and pursuing them. Live by example, make your life the highest version of what it can be, and inspire others by your direct actions. Celestine Chua
- Everything you think, say, and do is a message. Your whole life is your teaching. If you thought that others, tomorrow, would walk in the path that you have taken today, would you take the same path? You may think that people do not look to you, but they do. More people than you know. Everyone, in fact whose life you touch is touched by your example. Neale Donald Walsch
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We are here to create moments of grace
- My moments of awakening can come at any time, and through any person. These are my moments of grace, when clarity and wisdom, love and understanding, guidance and insight are brought to me and through me. My life has been created to bring me just such moments. That is why I do whatever it takes – meditate, exercise, pray, read, write, listen to music, whatever I find works – to ignite my awareness daily. Neale Donald Walsch
- Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- I remember I am simply using illusions to create a localised contextual field within which I can experience, and not merely conceptualise, any one of the myriad aspects of Who I Am. I use this contextual field like an artist using a paint brush, producing wonderful pictures and creating powerful and extraordinary moments – moments of grace – in which I may know myself experientially. Neale Donald Walsch
- The secret of life is that all we have and are is a gift of grace to be shared. Lloyd John Ogilvie
- Just ask, “What would love do now?” Neale Donald Walsch
- Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace. Karl Barth
- We may not all live holy lives, but we live in a world alive with holy moments. Kent Nerburn
- Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. William Hazlitt
- The moment of grace comes to us in the dynamics of any situation we walk into. It is an opportunity that God sews into the fabric of a routine situation. It is a chance to do something creative, something helpful, something healing, something that makes one unmarked spot in the world better off for our having been there. We catch it if we are people of discernment. Lewis B. Smedes
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Our souls care more about being and becoming than doing
- Because we are spiritual beings, it is the spirit of what we do that determines how much fulfillment we derive. You can be going through all the motions and doing all the appropriate and expected actions, but if you are empty or absent inside, your deeds mean little. Only soul satisfaction can fulfill you; everything else will leave you hungry. Rumi
- The ultimate importance is not what you do, it’s how you do it—the state of consciousness brought to the process. Eckhart Tolle
- Your soul doesn’t care what it does for a living – and when your life is over, neither will you. Your souls cares only about what you’re being while you’re doing whatever you’re doing. It is a state of beingness the soul is after, not a state of doingness. Neale Donald Walsch
- At the end of your life, you will know that nothing you have done will matter – only who you have been while you have done it. Have you been happy? Have you been kind? Have you been gracious? Have you been compassionate and considerate of others? And most of all, have you been loving? You will see that it is who you have been, not what you have done, that matters to the soul. And you will see that it is your soul, after all, that is Who You Are. Neale Donald Walsch
- Who you are being tells me much more than what you are doing. Ellie Walsh
- It is better to travel well than to arrive. Buddha
- The highest level of creativity consists in being, not doing. When the being is intense enough, when the words are spoken enough, when the thoughts are thought enough, the doing will automatically follow. Marianne Williamson
- At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it. Thich Nhat Hanh
- “How” is always more important that “what.” See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it. Eckhart Tolle
- In truth it matters less what we do… than how we do it and why. Donna Farhi
- In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important. Les Brown
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Final thoughts
- Our purpose here on earth: to manifest the very nature of our spirit, which is touched by the spirit of God. Rumi
- Every occurrence is a true gift to help you complete your life in the ways intended for you by your soul. You exist as an extension of your soul. You do not need techniques to activate or rearrange anything. Your life will bring you into perfect contact with experiences needed for fulfilment. Operation Terra
- You are a powerful and creative compassionate and loving spirit that has entered the Earth school to learn lessons and to give gifts. Your personality is a tool of your soul. Gary Zukav
- Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment. Morihei Ueshiba
- When you see people only as personalities, rather than souls with life missions to fulfill, you forever limit the growth and possibilities of what God has in store for another person. Shannon L. Alder
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