What is true for you? - Neale

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What is true for you? - Neale

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peter6264

Mon Oct 8, 2007 8:47 am (PST)

What is true for you?

My Dear Friends...

"God says, 'You may not have what you want'."

When I first encountered those words in Conversations with God-Book

1, I remember thinking, "Wait a minute! That's exactly the opposite

of what all religions teach. Religions teach that even before you

ask, you will be answered. They teach that God is ready, willing, and

able to fulfill all of our desires, if we will but ask. And they

teach that if God does not grant us our wishes and answer our

prayers, it is because of some higher good or reason, and that we

must have faith in God to know what that is."

"These are the things that religions teach, and now here comes CwG

saying "you may not have what you want."

Can this be true?

Yes. And it is.

As CwG explains, "wanting" something is an admission that it is not

now there. And this admission is what makes that true for us. For

Life is exactly what we say it is. It is exactly what we think it is.

It is exactly how we act that it is. Our thoughts, words and actions

not only describe life, but create it.

If we are saying, "I want more money," for instance, we are actually

making a declaration to the Universe. This is an announcement of what

is true for you.

Think of it this way: imagine that the word "I" is the magic word

that let's the genie out of the bottle. Whatever you say after the

word "I" is an announcement. It is a declaration. It is you, saying

what is true for you. And in God's Universe, your word is law.

So if you think that you want more money, that is the result you will

produce. You will want more money.

If you say "I want more money in my life," the Universe will merely

echo, "Yes." The Universe will merely declare, "because you have said

it, so be it."

That is what the Universe declares after everything you say. If you

say, "I'm sick and tired of this or that," the Universe will

say, "That's true. And so it will be."

If you say, "I want more sex and more companionship in my life!" the

Universe will declare, "That is true. You DO!" The Universe never

disagrees with you!

That is why to "want" something is to push it away from you.

The point here is that I have discovered that the Universe takes me

literally. In fact, the Universe has no other way to get its clues as

to what to create in my reality except from the things I think, say,

and do. What other way is there?

God is not the creator of our reality, God is the observer. And God

provides the tools with which we are given the power to create our

own reality. These tools are three: thought, word, and deed.

In my own life, I have experienced these words to be true. They are

not just some fancy metaphysical talking points that are my truth.

Oh, and by the way, because I say that they work, they do work. This

is what I call Divine Logic. It circles in on itself.

Everything is a circle, everything is a Closed System, and logic is

not an exception. In fact, logic is the ultimate closed system.

In my own life, I have given up "wanting" things. I can

have "desires," but I have no "wants."

What is the difference, you ask?

You can always tell the difference between a desire and a want by the

degree to which you become upset if it is not fulfilled. A desire is

a preference. A want is often experienced as something larger than

that. Perhaps it is even seen as a necessity.

In truth, I have found that there are very fewâ€"actually, remarkably

fewâ€"necessities (that is, things I cannot do without) in life. I can

do without almost anything and be happy. And not just a little bit

happy, a lot happy.

I have experienced that Communion with God is right when it says that

it is an illusion that Need Exists.

I have learned to change my wants to preferences. A book that has

helped me a lot in this regard is a wonderful volume written over 25

years ago by Ken Keyes, Jr. called The Handbook to Higher

Consciousness. It can be found in most libraries and in many Used

Book Stores. I highly recommend it.

~ Neale Walsch