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Conversations with God |
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| Book: Hardcover | 5.98 x 8.58in | 240 pages | ISBN 9780399142789 | 29 Oct 1996 | Putnam Adult | 14 - AND UP years |
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Conversations with God Book 1 began a series that has been changing millions of lives for more than ten years. Finally, the bestselling series is now a movie, starring Henry Czerny (The Pink Panther and Clear and Present Danger) and Ingrid Boulting (The Last Tycoon). Produced and directed by Stephen Simon (producer of Somewhere in Time and What Dreams May Come) and distributed by Samuel Goldwyn Films and Fox Home Entertainment, the theatrical release is set for October 27, 2006. The movie is the true account of Walsch (played by Cierny), who went from an unemployed homeless man to an "accidental spiritual messenger" and author of the bestselling book
The Secret of Life
The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation.
You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. . . . Life (as you call it) is an
opportunity for you to know experientially what you already know conceptually. You need learn
nothing to do this. You merely need to remember what you already know, and act on it.
Work
Doing is a function of the body. Being is a function of the soul. The body is always doing
something. . . . The soul is forever being. . . . Your soul doesn't care what you do for a living --
and when your life is over, neither will you. Your soul cares only what you're being while you're
doing whatever you're doing.
Your life work is a statement of Who You Are. If it is not, then why are you doing it? . . . If
"man who supports his family, at all costs, even his own happiness" is Who You Are, then love
your work, because it is facilitating your creation of a living statement of Self. If "woman who
works at job she hates in order to meet responsibilities as she sees them" is Who You Are, then
love, love, love your job, for it totally supports your Self image, your Self concept.
Sex
. . . Sex is joy, and many of you have made sex everything else but. Sex is sacred, too -
- yes. But joy and sacredness do mix (they are, in fact, the same thing), and many of you think
they do not. Your attitudes about sex form a microcosm of your attitudes about life. Life should
be a joy, a celebration, and it has become an experience of fear, anxiety, "not enough-ness," envy,
rage, and tragedy. The same can be said about sex. You have repressed sex, even as you have
repressed life . . . . You have shamed sex, even as you have shamed life, calling it evil and
wicked, rather than the highest gift and the greatest pleasure.
Relationships
There is a way to be happy in relationships, and that is to use relationships for their intended
purpose, not the purpose you have designed. . . . Most people enter into relationships with an eye
toward what they can get out of them, rather than what they can put into them. The purpose of a
relationship is to decide what part of yourself you'd like to see "show up," not what part of
another you can capture and hold. . . . It is very romantic to say that now that your special other
has entered your life, you feel complete. Yet the purpose of relationship is not to have another
who might complete you; but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.
. . . you have no obligation. Neither in relationship, nor in all of life. . . . You have only
opportunity. Opportunity, not obligation, is the cornerstone of religion, the basis of all
spirituality. . . . Relationship -- your relationship to all things -- was created as your perfect tool
in the work of the soul. That is why all human relationships are sacred ground. It is why every
personal relationship is holy.
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