{"id":261,"date":"2008-03-31T04:25:34","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T04:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/conversationswithgod\/2008\/03\/want-to-be-happier.html"},"modified":"2008-03-31T04:25:34","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T04:25:34","slug":"want-to-be-happier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/conversationswithgod\/2008\/03\/want-to-be-happier.html","title":{"rendered":"Want to be happier?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyone wants to be happier, right? Of course. Even the happiest among us cannot get too much happiness. And those who are not so happy could really <\/em>use a boost…
\nOver the next several months I’ll be sharing with you here 17 Steps to Being Happier Than God<\/strong>. These come right out of the book Happier Than God<\/em>, and we’ll consider them one at a time here.
\nStep #1 may be the most important step of all — and, indeed, may be the most important step you ever took in your life.
\nStep 1. Bring an end to Separation Theology<\/strong>
\nWork in your own life and your personal belief system to eliminate any thought of separation from God. Just get rid of that theology.
\nSeparation Theology is a theology that insists that we are \u201cover here\u201d and God is \u201cover there.\u201d Its doctrine tells us that God separated us from God as punishment for our sins, and that our job now is to get back to God, which is possibly only if God will allow it, which God will do only if we obey God\u2019s commands, follow God\u2019s laws, and submit to God\u2019s will. In short, we must do What God Wants. (For my separate exploration of this subject, see What God Wants<\/em>, from Atria Books, 2006.)
\nThis Separation Theology has produced a Separation Cosmology (that is, a way of looking at all of life on this planet that includes separation as its basic principle), which, in turn, has produced a Separation Sociology (that is, a way of socializing our species that requires us to act as separate beings serving our own best and separate interests), which has produced a Separation Pathology (that is, pathological behavior producing suffering, conflict, violence, and death by our own hands).
\nOnly when our Separation Theology is replaced by a Unity Theology will our Separation Pathology be healed. We must come to understand that all of life is One. This is your first step and it is mine. It is the jumping off point. It is the beginning of the end of how things now are. It is the start of a new creation, of the placing into reality of the next grandest version of the greatest vision ever you held about who you are.
\nThe Unspoken Truth reveals to us that Oneness is not a characteristic of life\u2026life is a characteristic of Oneness.
\nLife is the expression of Oneness Itself. God is the expression of Oneness Itself. Life and God are One. Oneness is God and life. It is a circle.
\nWhen we understand this, we see God in everyone and in everything. Including our divine selves. We see clearly that we are God Godding. That is, God in the act of recreating Godself. God, and life, evolves. God never stays the same, but becomes bigger and more of what God is, in every moment.
\nGod is more of everything now than God was a nanosecond ago. When we solve our own case of \u201cmistaken identity,\u201d when we identify ourselves as That Which God Is, we will be as happy as God.
\nBut now follow this: If we use the term \u201cGod\u201d to indicate the Collective Divinity and the term \u201cyou\u201d to indicate the Individuation of Divinity, and if the day comes when you have raised your consciousness to a level where you are happier than many other Individuations\u2026well, then, you will be happier than \u201cGod.\u201d
\nThe Individuation that is \u201cYou\u201d will be of higher consciousness than the largest number of other individuations of Divinity that we call \u201cGod,\u201d just as previous messengers and avatars and masters (Buddha, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad, and more) have experienced their Individuated Consciousness to be raised above the level of the Collective Consciousness. It then became their mission to raise the Collective Consciousness of humanity so that the Entirety Which Is God could evolve even further, continuing to expand in consciousness and total self-awareness.
\nThis is what they were doing here.
\nAll of life is Divine, and when we treat all of life as Divine we will change everything. For how can one aspect, how can a single Individuation of Divinity, ever be totally happy so long as any other Individuation is totally unhappy? The answer is, it cannot. And so, we will raise each other up, that we might all experience ourselves, one by one, being \u201chappier than God.\u201d
\n\u201cI am come that you may have life, and have it more abundantly,\u201d saith the Master. And the Master-in-You will one day say the same thing. When the earth is thus transformed, person by person, no more will children die of starvation. No more will millions suffer from oppression. No more will nation battle nation. When we treat everyone as Divine, there will be war no more.
\nNext Week: a look at Step 2: Stay in touch with who you are.<\/strong>
\nP.S…..i will be presenting a Happier Than God One Day Workshop <\/strong>in Phoenix, Arizona next month.
\nThis is a Masters Class in Spiritual Awakening, sharing How to End Your Story and Begin Your Life. The details:
\nSaturday April 19th, 200b
\n<\/strong>9am to 10pm
\nPhoenix, AZ
\nFor more Workshop information contact:
\nWill : 1-352-442-2244
\nOR…follow the link here: http:\/\/www.nealedonaldwalsch.com\/retreatphoenix.cfm<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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