Words are merely utterances: noises that stand for feelings, thoughts, and experience. They are symbols. Signs. Insignias. They are not Truth. They are not the real thing. In fact, you place so little value on experience that when what your experience of God differs from what you've heard of God, you automatically discard the experience and own the words, when it should be just the other way around.
Neale Donald WalschYou cannot know, and become, that which you are, in the absence of that which you are not, as I have already explained to you.
Neale Donald WalschI tell you this: The purpose of life is not to please God. The purpose of life is to know, and to recreate, Who You Are.
Neale Donald WalschUltimately, all thoughts are sponsored by love or fear. All thoughts, ideas, concepts, understandings, decisions, choices, and actions are based on these. And, in the end, there is really only one. Love. In truth, love is all there is.
Neale Donald WalschYou, and you alone, get to determine whether you are going to react positively about something or negatively about something - or, interestingly, have no reaction at all. Your emotions are entirely under your control. Your feelings are what you want them to be.
Neale Donald Walsch