Communion with God (Conversations with God Series) - Softcover

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Neale Donald Walsch is the author of the New York Times bestsellers: Conversations with God book 1, book 2, and book 3, as well as Meditations from Conversations with God book 1 and book 2, and the Conversations with God book 1 Guidebook. Walsch lectures and hosts workshops throughout the country, in addition to running his foundation, ReCreation. His books have been translated into twenty-two languages. He lives in Oregon.

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God has spoken to you many times in many ways over many years, but seldom asdirectly as this.

This time I speak to you as You, and that has occurred on only a handful ofoccasions in the whole of your history.

Few humans have had the courage to hear Me in this way-as themselves. And fewerstill have shared with others what they have heard. Those few who have listened,and shared, have changed the world.

Aesop, Confucius, Lao-tzu, Buddha, Muhammad, Moses, and Jesus were among them.

So, too, Chuang Tzu, Aristotle, Huang-po, Sahara, Mahavira, Krishnamurti.

Also, Paramahansa Yogananda, Ramana Maharshi, Kabir, Ralph Waldo Emerson, ThichNhat Hanh, the Dalai Lama, Elizabeth Clinton.

As well, Sri Aurobindo, Mother Teresa, Meher Baba, Mahatma Gandhi, KahlilGibran, Baha-' Alla-h, Ernest Holmes, Sai Baba.

Including Joan of Arc, Francis of Assisi, Joseph Smith . . . and more, others,not mentioned here. This list could go on. Yet, relative to the total number ofhumans who have inhabited your planet, the number is minuscule.

These few have been My messengers-for all have brought forward The Truth withintheir hearts, as best as they understood it, as purely as they knew how. Andwhile they have each done so through imperfect filters, they have nonethelessbrought to your awareness extraordinary wisdom, from which the whole human racehas benefited.

What is amazing is how similar their insights have been. Offered at vastlydifferent times and places, separated by legions and centuries, they might justas well have been speaking all at the same time, so tiny have been the variancesbetween them, and so huge the commonalities.

Now it is time to expand this list to include others, living today, as My latestmessengers.

We will speak with one voice.

Unless we do not.

You will make that choice, even as you have always done. For in each Moment ofNow have you made your decision, and announced it in action.

At the beginning, your thoughts are Mine, and Mine are yours. For at thebeginning, it can be no other way. There is only one Source of That Which Is,and the one Source is That Which Is.

All things emanate from that Source, then permeate the Isness all over, andreveal themselves as Individuations of the Whole.

The individual interpretations of the one message produce the miracle of Onenessin many forms.

This Oneness in many forms is what you call Life.

Life is God, interpreted. That is, translated into many forms.

The first level of translation is from the unified non-physical to theindividuated non-physical.

The second level of translation is from the individuated non-physical to theindividuated physical.

The third level of translation is from the individuated physical into theunified physical.

The fourth level of translation is from the unified physical into the unifiednon-physical.

Then the cycle of Life is complete.

The continuing process of the translation of God produces endless variety withinGod's unity. This variety of the unity is what I have called "individuation." Itis the individual expression of that which is not separate but which can beindividually expressed.

The purpose of individual expression is for Me to experience My Self as thewhole, through the experiencing of My parts. And while the whole is greater thanthe sum of the parts, I can only experience this by knowing the sum.

And that is who you are.

You are the Sum of God.

I have told you this many times before, and many of you have heard this as theson of God. That, too, is correct. You are the sons, and daughters, of God. Yetit does not matter what labels or names you use, it adds up to the same thing:You are The Sum of God.

So, too, is everything around you. Everything that you see, and do not see. AllThat Is, All That Ever Was, and All That Ever Will Be is Me. And all that I am,I am now.

I Am That I Am-as I have told you many times.

There is nothing that I have ever been that I have ceased to be. And there isnothing that I will ever be that I am not now. I cannot become anything that Inow am not, nor can I fail to be anything that I once was.

This is as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world withoutend. Amen.

I am coming to you now, in this day and time, as you begin another millennium,so that you may start a new thousand years in a new way: knowing Me at last,choosing Me first, and being Me always, all ways.

There is no mistake in the timing. I began these new revelations early in thelast decade, continued My conversations with you throughout the last years ofthe century, and in the final moments of the last millennium reminded you howyou may have a friendship with Me.

Now, in the first year of the new millennium, I speak to you with one voice,that we may experience communion.

Should you choose this experience of communion with God, you will finally knowpeace, and joy unbounded, and love fully expressed, and full freedom.

Should you choose this truth, you will change your world.

Should you choose this reality, you will create it, and at last fully experienceWho You Really Are.

It will be the hardest thing you have ever done, and the easiest thing you willever do.

It will be the hardest thing you have ever done because you will have to denywho you think you are, and stop denying Me. It will be the easiest thing youwill ever do because there will be nothing that you have to do.

All you have to do is be, and all you have to be is Me.

Even this will not be an act of will but a simple acknowledgment. It will notrequire an action, only an admission.

I have been seeking this admission forever. When you grant Me admission, you letMe into your life. You admit that you and I are One. This is your ticket toheaven. It says: Admit One.

When I gain entrance into your heart, you gain entrance into heaven. And yourheaven can be on Earth. Everything can truly be "on earth as it is in heaven"when the time of separation is over and the time of unification is at hand.

Unification with Me, and unification with all others, and with every livingthing.

This is what I have come to tell you, once more, through the messengers oftoday. You will know them as My messengers because they will all be bringing thesame message:

We Are All One.

This is the only message that matters. It is the only message there is.Everything else in Life is a reflection of this message. Everything else sendsit.

The fact that you have so far failed to receive it (you have heard it often, butyou have failed to receive it) is what has caused every misery, every sorrow,every conflict, every heartache in your experience. It has caused every murder,every war, every rape and robbery, every assault and attack, mental, verbal, andphysical. It has caused every illness and disease, and every encounter with whatyou call "death."

The idea that we are not One is an illusion.

Most people believe in God: They just don't believe in a God who believes inthem.

God does believe in them. And God loves them more than most of them know.

The idea that God turned stone-silent and stopped talking to the human race along time ago is false.

The idea that God is angry with the human race and kicked it out of Paradise isfalse.

The idea that God has set Himself up as judge and jury and will be decidingwhether members of the human race go to heaven or hell is false.

God loves every human being who ever lived, lives now, or ever will live.

God's desire is for every soul to return to God, and God cannot fail in havingthis desire fulfilled.

God is separate from nothing, and nothing is separate from God.

There is nothing that God needs, because God is everything there is.

This is the good news. Everything else is an illusion.

The human race has been living with illusions for a long time. This is notbecause the human race is stupid, but because the human race is very smart.Humans have understood intuitively that...