Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Communion with God

This was the first book of Neale Donald Walsh I read so I have been reading them in inverse order. In this book, he discusses the ten illusions including need and superiority. These points are all sensible but more so for me after having immersed myself in Buddhist thought. I still find it hard to grasp egolessness and how everything is one, but understanding this is what allows Neale to argue that there is no such thing as need. If one were one with God and everyone else, then it is only the illusion of separation that creates the idea of need.

Without the need to feel superior, we begin accept things as they are. We learn to stop struggling and just be. We appreciate ourselves for who we are - to the extent that we accept the existence of a self. We begin to be grateful for who we are and what we have. We look to God with joy and gratefulness instead of fear. We begin to feel abundance instead of scarcity. We dispel the illusion of the self and of separation and we start to feel we are all one.