Conversations With God – Book 2 by Neale Donald Walsch

Conversations With God : An Uncommon Dialogue (Book 2) by Neale Donald Walsch
Notes
– Reactive and Creative. When you C things correctly, you become Creative, rather than Reactive.

– Stop changing one’s mind; keep choosing the same thing.

– Negative feelings are not true feelings at all; rather, they are your thoughts about something, based always on the previous experience of yourself and others.

– Time is not a continuum. It is an aspect of Relativity that exists in an “up and down” paradigm, with “moments” or “events” stacked on top of each other, happening or occurring at the same “time.”

– “Older” and “younger” has to do with the levels of awareness of a particular soul. Even other past lives are happening now.

– Hitler went to heaven and there’s no good or bad or hell.

– When you see the utter perfection in everything—not just those things with which you agree, but (and perhaps especially) those things with which you disagree—you achieve mastery.

– Exploitation of the underclass is justified by the self-congratulatory pronouncements from the upper class of how much better off their victims are now than they were before these exploitations. By this measure the upper class can ignore the issue of how all people ought to be treated if one were being truly fair, rather than merely making a horrible situation a tiny bit better—and profiting obscenely in the bargain.

– There is no such thing as space—pure, “empty” space, with nothing in it. Everything is something. Even the “emptiest” space is filled with vapours so thin, so stretched out over infinite areas, that they seem to not be there.
Then, after the vapours are gone, there is energy. Pure energy. This manifests as vibration. Oscillations. Movements of the All at a particular frequency.

– The good news is it’s all right to love sex! It’s also all right to love your Self!
 In fact, it’s mandatory. What does not serve you is to become addicted to sex (or anything else). But it is “okay” to fall in love with it! Paras note: I don’t agree with ‘gods’ message of all the sex you can get especially with the things going round these days.

– Yet do not choose sex instead of love, but as a celebration of it. And do not choose power over, but power with. And do not choose fame as an end in itself, but as a means to a larger end. And do not choose success at the expense of others, but as a tool with which to assist others. And do not choose winning at any cost, but winning that costs others nothing, and even brings them gain as well.

– “Feeling good” is the soul’s way of shouting “This is who I am!”

– You see beauty where you desire to see it. You see ugliness where you are afraid to see beauty.

– Tom and Mary may be far from each other but between them there is a, Tomary energy that wants to manifest and they want it to. Note: God describes sex and union until a third is born and how that makes us gods ourselves.

– For God to know Itself as the All of It, God must know Itself as not the All of It.

– So you unite to know God but then God can only experience himself apart so you push away only to later unite again and there you have sex.

– Betrayal of yourself in order not to betray another is Betrayal nonetheless. It is the Highest Betrayal.

– Enjoy everything. Need nothing.

– When you give your children knowledge, you are telling them what to think. That is, you are telling them what they are supposed to know, what you want them to understand is true. 
When you give your children wisdom, you do tell how to get to their own truth.

– Look up Waldorf/Steiner education. I love the concept of having the same teacher from the start. Teacher moves with the children through all levels of the primary and elementary learning experience. For all those years the children have the same teacher, rather than moving from one person to another. Can you imagine the bond which is formed here? Can you see the value? The teacher comes to know the child as if it were his or her own. The child moves to a level of trust and love with the teacher which opens doors many traditionally oriented schools never dreamed existed. At the end of those years, the teacher reverts to the first grade, starting over again with another group of children and moving through all the years of the curriculum. A dedicated Waldorf teacher may wind up working with only four or five groups of children in an entire career. But he or she has meant something to those children beyond anything that is possible in a traditional school setting. This educational model recognizes and announces that the human relationship, the bonding and the love which is shared in such a paradigm is just as important as any facts the teacher may impart to the child. It is like home schooling, outside the home.

– The same government says it is all right to grow and use another kind of plant, tobacco, not because it is good for you (indeed, the government itself says it is bad), but, presumably, because you’ve always done so.
 The real reason that the first plant is outlawed and the second is not has nothing to do with health. It has to do with economics. And that is to say, power.
Your laws, therefore, do not reflect what your society thinks of itself, and wishes to be—your laws reflect where the power is. Paras note: This book was published in 1997. Half the cotton growers, nylon and rayon manufacturers, and timber products people in the world would go out of business.
 Hemp happens to be one of the most useful, strongest, toughest, longest-lasting materials on your planet. You cannot produce a better fiber for clothes, a stronger substance for ropes, an easier-to-grow-and-harvest source for pulp. You cut down hundreds of thousands of trees per year to give yourself Sunday papers, so that you can read about the decimation of the world’s forests. Hemp could provide you with millions of Sunday papers without cutting down one tree. Indeed, it could substitute for so many resource materials, at one-tenth the cost.

– Goes into politics and geopolitical situations. Too many things in ‘quotes’ and italics as it is.

– The first question when you encounter another in any circumstance should always be: What do I want here? Not: What does the other person want here?

– Live simply, so that others may simply live.

– Talks of how soils are being destroyed.

– How total transparency with money would fix so much. Amounts, where it goes, everything. Things like 2 amounts on a tag, the cost and the price.

– God supports a one world government but not the Big Brother way. Everyone tithes 10% so there is no poverty or starving and equality/equity everywhere would mean most of the problems are gone.

So it’s taken me 10 years to get to the second book. I hope to hop on to the third one right after this.