5 steps to peace
1. You can choose to acknowledge that some of your old beliefs about God and about Life are no longer working.
2. You can choose to acknowledge that there is something you do not understand about God and about Life, the understanding of which will change everything.
3. You can choose to be willing for a new understanding of God and Life to now be brought forth, an understanding that could produce a new way of life on your planet.
4. You can choose to be courageous enough to explore and examine this new understanding, and, if it aligns with your inner truth and knowing, to enlarge your belief system to include it.
5. You can choose to live your lives as demonstrations of your highest and grandest beliefs, rather than denials of them.
These are the Five Steps to Peace, and if you take them, you can shift everything on your planet.
--The New Revelations: A Conversation with God by Neale Donald Walsch
These are the steps to fundamental belief changes, changes that are absolutely necessary to bring about true peace in our world. We cannot bring peace by changing our behaviors, though this is what we've tried to do for millenia. It is as simple as it is profound, that beliefs create behaviors.
If you don't believe this, think about the worst behaviors and what beliefs produce them. Muslims suicide bomb people because they believe they will be rewarded in heaven. What a strong belief to override the natural part of humanity that seeks to survive at all cost! Christians murder abortion doctors because they believe God has told them to do it. Again, a belief so strong it allows them to kill another human being, which goes against human nature. It also goes against the 10 commandments, but logic is clearly not involved here. Think of smaller behaviors. Your feelings towards a person completely change by something you believe happens, even if it doesn't. Why do we do anything? We believe something exists and react accordingly. Thefore, change the beliefs and you change the behaviors.
We are all one. We are not separate from each other or God. This fundamental fact can change everything. Would you hurt another being if you believed that person was a part of you, and thus hurting them hurt yourself? If we are not separate from each other, than no one is above or below another. How can you look down on another if you believe them to be equal to you? How can you treat another anything less than equal once you believe them to be so? There will be no need to legislate equality because equality will come naturally.
There is no one right way to God. We all know that most wars are fought over religious ideas. If we believe that we are one with God, then we realize we do not need any particular religion or ritual to return to God, because we are already with God. The ability for any religion to then say they are right is taken away, and thus cooperation can begin. When will Ireland see peace? When they realize they are fighting over nothing, that no one is right, that they are all one. When will the middle east have peace? When they accept that the God they all worship (take your pick which one it is) is not God, but a God they made up many millenia ago to control populations.
It is simple. God is all. Therefore God does not require anything from us, because by definition God is all. We are also God because God is all. We are not separate from God, we just perceive it as such. God is joy, pure love. God requires nothing, loves unconditionally. Think about this, feel it in your heart to be true, and come to your spirituality. For that is where true peace and joy come from.
2. You can choose to acknowledge that there is something you do not understand about God and about Life, the understanding of which will change everything.
3. You can choose to be willing for a new understanding of God and Life to now be brought forth, an understanding that could produce a new way of life on your planet.
4. You can choose to be courageous enough to explore and examine this new understanding, and, if it aligns with your inner truth and knowing, to enlarge your belief system to include it.
5. You can choose to live your lives as demonstrations of your highest and grandest beliefs, rather than denials of them.
These are the Five Steps to Peace, and if you take them, you can shift everything on your planet.
--The New Revelations: A Conversation with God by Neale Donald Walsch
These are the steps to fundamental belief changes, changes that are absolutely necessary to bring about true peace in our world. We cannot bring peace by changing our behaviors, though this is what we've tried to do for millenia. It is as simple as it is profound, that beliefs create behaviors.
If you don't believe this, think about the worst behaviors and what beliefs produce them. Muslims suicide bomb people because they believe they will be rewarded in heaven. What a strong belief to override the natural part of humanity that seeks to survive at all cost! Christians murder abortion doctors because they believe God has told them to do it. Again, a belief so strong it allows them to kill another human being, which goes against human nature. It also goes against the 10 commandments, but logic is clearly not involved here. Think of smaller behaviors. Your feelings towards a person completely change by something you believe happens, even if it doesn't. Why do we do anything? We believe something exists and react accordingly. Thefore, change the beliefs and you change the behaviors.
We are all one. We are not separate from each other or God. This fundamental fact can change everything. Would you hurt another being if you believed that person was a part of you, and thus hurting them hurt yourself? If we are not separate from each other, than no one is above or below another. How can you look down on another if you believe them to be equal to you? How can you treat another anything less than equal once you believe them to be so? There will be no need to legislate equality because equality will come naturally.
There is no one right way to God. We all know that most wars are fought over religious ideas. If we believe that we are one with God, then we realize we do not need any particular religion or ritual to return to God, because we are already with God. The ability for any religion to then say they are right is taken away, and thus cooperation can begin. When will Ireland see peace? When they realize they are fighting over nothing, that no one is right, that they are all one. When will the middle east have peace? When they accept that the God they all worship (take your pick which one it is) is not God, but a God they made up many millenia ago to control populations.
It is simple. God is all. Therefore God does not require anything from us, because by definition God is all. We are also God because God is all. We are not separate from God, we just perceive it as such. God is joy, pure love. God requires nothing, loves unconditionally. Think about this, feel it in your heart to be true, and come to your spirituality. For that is where true peace and joy come from.
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