Top 500 Neale Donald Walsch Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “Humankind has not evolved in its most basic instincts much beyond the caveman era. Yet every attempt to change that is met with scorn.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

452. “There is only one purpose for all of life, and that is for you and all that lives to experience fullest glory.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

453. “The world is starving for a new spiritual truth – a truth that works in sustaining life, not a truth that brings an end to life.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

454. “The beginning is God. The end is action. Action is God creating-or God experienced.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

455. “Even a thought that says I don’t want something? If you don’t want it, why think about it? Don’t give it a second thought. Yet if you must think about it – that is, if you cannot not think about it – then do not resist. Rather, look at whatever it is directly – accept the reality as your creation – then choose to keep it or not, as you wish.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

456. “God comes through all people, in the way that people experience themselves. The beautiful part about God is that God is trans-cultural, and tends to reveal himself through the experiential filters of all people to whom he is revealed.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

457. “Believing that you cannot have something is the same thing as not desiring to have it, for it produces the same result.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

458. “A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

459. “Difficult as it may be for some people to imagine, God does not, we repeat here for emphasis, prefer Baptists over Hindus, Catholics over Jews, Muslims over Mormons, or any religion over any other religion. God does not even prefer those who believe in God over those who do not believe in God. These are not God’s ideas. These are the ideas of human beings who think that these are God’s ideas.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

460. “Today the earth is populated with billions of people desperately hoping to “get somewhere,” but having no idea of where they’re going.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

461. “My child, everything in life is holy.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

462. “However little of anything you have, you can always find someone who has less. Find that someone, and give to them from the abundance that is yours.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

463. “Governments understand that help is power. That is why governments offer as much help to as many people as they can...”

— Neale Donald Walsch

464. “The new spirituality will step away from dogma, will step away from ‘We’re right and you’re wrong.’”

— Neale Donald Walsch

465. “You can choose to acknowledge that some of your old beliefs about God and about Life are no longer working.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

466. “Government is the human attempt to mandate goodness and ensure fairness. Yet there is only one place where goodness is born, and that is in the human heart. There is only one place where fairness can be conceptualized, and that is in the human mind. There is only one place where love can be experienced truly, and that is in the human soul.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

467. “We’ve seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

468. “The first problem, of course, is that we haven’t learned to love ourselves. That’s the first problem. We can only give to another what we have to give. And if we have no love over here, we can’t give it over there.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

469. “As the new spirituality begins to become the pervasive spirituality of the planet, we’ll find that we have abandoned our philosophy of contradictions in which we say we’re all one but continue to try to win.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

470. “And so you ask a very good question. Why go on? Why even start off on such a path? What is to be gained from embarking on such a journey? Where is the incentive? What is the reason? The reason is ridiculously simple. There is nothing else to do.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

471. “That’s what I thought, too. Then this book happened to me. And I mean that literally. This book was not written by me, it happened to me. And in your reading of it, it will happen to you, for we are all led to the truth for which we are ready.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

472. “The new spirituality will bring about what I’m calling the ‘end of better.’ And that is in fact what is called for in the next of the series of books that I’ve been writing.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

473. “In the true order of things one does not do something in order to be happy-one is happy and, hence, does something. One does not do some things in order to be compassionate, one is compassionate and, hence, acts in a certain way.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

474. “It’s a very small and select slice of all the people who have ever been born. I believe we’ve come back during this time, those of us who are here now, specifically to experience it. And to cause a ‘quickening of the spirit.’”

— Neale Donald Walsch

475. “Never do anything in relationship out of a sense of obligation. Do whatever you do out of a sense of the glorious opportunity your relationship affords you to decide, and to be, Who You Really Are.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

476. “It graduates to ‘our state is better than your state,’ and ‘our nation is better than your nation.’ And it circles all the way around to where it started: ‘Our God is better than your God.’”

— Neale Donald Walsch

477. “Beyond the Catholic exclusionary paradigm is a larger one which is the Christian one. Christians claim that if you don’t believe in Christ, you can’t get to heaven. Well that eliminates two thirds of the world’s population!”

— Neale Donald Walsch

478. “You’ll find individuals agreeing on this, but when they get into collective societies and larger groups they find it difficult to achieve group agreement.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

479. “The most difficult thing for people to do is hear their own soul.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

480. “What you give, you become.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

481. “Start telling the truth now and never stop. Begin by telling the truth to yourself about yourself. Then tell the truth to yourself about someone else. Then tell the truth about yourself to another. Then tell the truth about another to that other. Finally, tell the truth to everyone about everything. These are the 5 levels of truth telling. This is the five-fold path to freedom.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

482. “I grant you that frustration is a very mild form of fear, yet it is fear nonetheless.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

483. “The world is in the condition that it’s in because the world is full of sleepwalkers.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

484. “History is supposed to be an accurate, and full, account of what actually happened. Politics is never about what actually happened. Politics is always one’s point of view about what happened. History reveals, politics justifies. History uncovers; tells all. Politics covers; tells only one side. Politicians hate history truly written. And history, truly written, speaks not so well of politicians, either.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

485. “The upper retainable income limit would be a reflection of a consciousness shift on the planet; an awareness that the highest purpose of life is not the accumulation of the greatest wealth, but the doing of the greatest good – and a corollary awareness that, indeed, the concentration of wealth, not the sharing of it, is the largest single factor in the creation of the world’s most persistent and striking social and political dilemmas.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

486. “I’m calling my book series the ‘with God series.’ And this next ‘with God’ book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of ‘better’ on this planet.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

487. “The heart thinks of everything you can give, and the soul thinks of everything you are.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

488. “Compassion is not created as a result of certain conditions. Certain conditions are created as a result of compassion. Abundance is not created as a result of certain conditions. Certain conditions are created as a result of abundance.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

489. “Finally, don’t try to “get out” of anything. What you resist, persists. I.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

490. “Have you never done anything for the sheer enjoyment of it? Does a specific result have to emerge from everything you undertake in order for it to have been “fun” for you?”

— Neale Donald Walsch

491. “I do not show My goodness by creating only what you call perfection all around you. I do not demonstrate My love by not allowing you to demonstrate yours.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

492. “Your story does not live in your soul, only in your mind.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

493. “Is it your thought that I despise some of these, while I love the others? I tell you, I despise nothing. None of it is repulsive to Me. It is life, and life is the gift; the unspeakable treasure; the holy of holies.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

494. “Remember this: It is not nearly so important how well a message is received as how well it is sent.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

495. “And so I tell you this: be now and forever centered upon your Self. Look to see what you are being, doing, and having in any given moment, not what’s going on with another.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

496. “If religions have produced conflict between people, it is not because their teachings are “wrong” but because they may be incomplete.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

497. “The difficulty with humanity’s previous attempts at reinventing itself is that we’ve always started with behaviors rather than with beliefs.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

498. “You can choose to be a person who has resulted simply from what has happened, or from what you’ve chosen to be and do about what has happened.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

499. “With you, it seems to be merely a question of time. The legality of self-destruction – the “rightness” or “wrongness” of it – seems to have much to do with how quickly the deed is done, as well as who is doing it. The faster the death, the more “wrong” it seems to be. The slower the death, the more it slips into “okayness.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

500. “I assure you, there needs to be no place on Earth where people cannot have access to clean, pure water – and whatever else is needed to “make life work” – if the people of Earth simply cared enough about each other.”

— Neale Donald Walsch