Neale Donald Walsch is the author of Conversation with God and whether or not you are a fan of his, this is an inspiring message: Statement - September 11, 2001 - 12 noon pst > > Dear friends around the world. > The events of this day cause every thinking person to stop their daily > lives, whatever is going on in them, and to ponder deeply the larger > questions of life. We search again for not only the meaning of life, but the > purpose of our individual and collective experience as we have created > it-and we look earnestly for ways in which we might recreate ourselves anew > as a human species, so that we will never treat each other this way again. > > The hour has come for us to demonstrate at the highest level our most > extraordinary thought about Who We Really Are. > > There are two possible responses to what has occurred today. The first comes > from love, the second from fear. If we come from fear we may panic and do > things-as individuals and as nations-that could only cause further damage. > > If we come from love we will find refuge and strength, even as we provide it > to others. > > A central teaching of Conversations with God is: What you wish to > experience, provide for another. > > Look to see, now, what it is you wish to experience-in your own life, and in > the world. Then see if there is another for whom you may be the source of > that. > > If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another. > > If you wish to know that you are safe, cause another to know that they are > safe. > > If you wish to better understand seemingly incomprehensible things, help > another to better understand. > > If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or > anger of another. > > Those others are waiting for you now. They are looking to you for guidance, > for help, for courage, for strength, for understanding, and for assurance at > this hour. Most of all, they are looking to you for love. > > This is the moment of your ministry. This is the time of teaching. What you > teach at this time, through your every word and action right now, will > remain as indelible lessons in the hearts and minds of those whose lives you > touch, both now, and for years to come. > > We will set the course for tomorrow, today. At this hour. In this moment. > > There is much we can do, but there is one thing we cannot do. We cannot > continue to co-create our lives together on this planet as we have in the > past. We cannot, except at our peril, ignore the events of this day, or > their implications. > > It is tempting at times like this to give in to rage. Anger is fear > announced, and rage is anger that is repressed, and then, when it is > released, that is often misdirected. Right now, anger is not inappropriate. > It is, in fact, natural-and can be a blessing. If we use our anger about > this day not to pinpoint where the blame falls, but where the cause lies, we > can lead the way to healing. > > Let us seek not to pinpoint blame, but to pinpoint cause. > > Unless we take this time to look at the cause of our experience, we will > never remove ourselves from the experiences it creates. Instead, we will > forever live in fear of retribution from those within the human family who > feel aggrieved, and, likewise, seek retribution from them. > > So at this time it is important for us to direct our anger toward the cause > of our present experience. And that is not necessarily individuals or groups > who have attacked others, but, rather, the reasons they have done so. Unless > we look at these reasons, we will never be able to eliminate these attacks. > > To me the reasons are clear. We have not learned the most basic human > lessons. We have not remembered the most basic human truths. We have not > understood the most basic spiritual wisdom. In short, we have not been > listening to God, and because we have not, we watch ourselves do ungodly > things. > > The message of Conversations with God is clear: we are all one. That is a > message the human race has largely ignored. Our separation mentality has > underscored all of our human creations. > > Our religions, our political structures, our economic systems, our > educational institutions, and our whole approach to life have been based on > the idea that we are separate from each other. This has caused us to inflict > all manner of injury, one upon the other. And this injury causes other > injury, for like begets like and negativity only breeds negativity. > > It is as easy to understand as that. And so now let us pray that all of us > in this human family will find the courage and the strength to turn inward > and to ask a simple, soaring question: what would love do now? > > If we could love even those who have attacked us, and seek to understand why > they have done so, what then would be our response? Yet if we meet > negativity with negativity, rage with rage, attack with attack, what then > will be the outcome? > > These are the questions that are placed before the human race today. They > are questions that we have failed to answer for thousands of years. Failure > to answer them now could eliminate the need to answer them at all. > > We should make no mistake about this. The human race has the power to > annihilate itself. We can end life as we know it on this planet in one > afternoon. > > This is the first time in human history that we have been able to say this. > And so now we must direct our attention to the questions that such power > places before us. And we must answer these questions from a spiritual > perspective, not a political perspective, and not an economic perspective. > > We must have our own conversation with God, for only the grandest wisdom and > the grandest truth can address the greatest problems, and we are now facing > the greatest problems and the greatest challenges in the history of our > species. > > It is not as if we have not seen this coming. Every spiritual, political, > and philosophical writer of the past 50 years has predicted it. So long as > we continue to treat each other as we have done on this planet, the > circumstance that we face on this day will continue to present itself. The > difference is that now our technology makes our anger much more dangerous. > > In the early days of our civilization, we were able to inflict hurt upon > each other using sticks and rocks and primitive weapons. Then, as our > technology grew, it became possible for clans to war against clans and, > ultimately, for nations to war against nations. > > But even then, until most recent times, it was not possible for us to > annihilate each other completely. We could destroy a village, or a town, or > a major city, or even an entire nation, but only now is it possible for us > to destroy our whole world so fast that nothing can stop it once the process > has begun. > > That is what makes this point in our history different from any other. And > that is what makes this call for each of us to have our own conversation > with God so appropriate and so important. > > If we want the beauty of the world that we have co-created to be experienced > by our children and our children's children, we will have to become > spiritual activists right here, right now, and cause that to happen. We must > choose to be at cause in the matter. > > So, talk with God today. Ask God for help, for counsel and advice, for > insight and for strength and for inner peace and for deep wisdom. Ask God on > this day to show us how to show up in the world in a way that will cause the > world itself to change. > > That is the challenge that is placed before every thinking person today. > Today the human soul asks the question: What can I do to preserve the beauty > and the wonder of our world and to eliminate the anger and hatred-and the > disparity that inevitably causes it - in that part of the world which I > touch? > > Please seek to answer that question today, with all the magnificence that is > You. > > I love you, and I send you my deepest thoughts of peace. > Neale Donald Walsch Support the fight against Parkinson's Disease Visit us at www.bid4cure.com <http://www.bid4cure.com> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn