{"id":60,"date":"2007-09-02T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2007-09-02T01:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/conversationswithgod\/2007\/09\/are-we-supposed-to-be-happy.html"},"modified":"2007-09-02T01:01:01","modified_gmt":"2007-09-02T01:01:01","slug":"are-we-supposed-to-be-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/conversationswithgod\/2007\/09\/are-we-supposed-to-be-happy.html","title":{"rendered":"Are we supposed to be happy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday is Message Day on the blog. Monday through Friday we look at contemporary events and day-to-day occurrences at the intersection of Life and the New Spirituality\u2026but on Sunday, we reserve this space for a specific teaching derived from the material in Conversations with God<\/em>
\nThis week\u2019s message: Life and Happiness
\nLife was meant to be happy.
\nDo you believe that?
\nIt\u2019s true. I know it doesn\u2019t seem like it when you look around, but it\u2019s true. Life was meant to be happy.
\nYou were meant to be happy. And if you are happy, you were meant to be happier. Even if you\u2019re very happy, you can be even happier.
\nHow happy? Just how happy can you be? Well\u2026you can be happier than God.
\nI once heard a lady describing a gentleman who was very wealthy. She said, \u201cHe\u2019s got more money than God!\u201d That\u2019s how I mean this. I mean to use the ultimate superlative.
\nI also mean the words I have used literally. I mean just what the words say. Which brings up a lot of questions. Does this mean that God even experiences the thing called \u201chappiness\u201d? (Yes.)
\nDoes this mean that God experiences unhappiness? (No.) If we can be happier than God, does this mean that we are separate from God? (No.) Then how is this possible?
\nWell, as it happens there is a formula by which you can be happier than God.<\/p>\n


\nAll mystics have known it, most teachers of mystical wisdom have known it, some contemporary spiritual messengers know it, but it\u2019s become, through the centuries, sort of a \u201cmystery formula\u201d\u2026because it\u2019s not talked about very much. Not very much at all.
\nWhy? Simple. Very few of the folks to whom spiritual teachers and messengers might be talking have been able to believe what the \u201cmystery formula\u201d is said to be able to produce. And when you talk about things that no one believes, you can become very unpopular.
\nSo even today, in what is supposed to be a time of intellectual and spiritual enlightenment, not many teachers and spiritual messengers reveal this formula, even if they know it. Or if they are talking about it, they are talking about only half of it. Most of them are keeping the other half, the most breathtaking part of this formula, under wraps. So what we have here is an amazing truth, but you don\u2019t know the half of it.
\nWhat good is a truth if it\u2019s not fully revealed? None at all, of course. In fact, only half a truth can be misleading. It can even be dangerous. So we\u2019re going to speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth here. We\u2019ll start with a look at why you\u2019re even reading this article right now.
\nAsk yourself why you opened this blog and wound up reading it.
\nNever mind. I\u2019ll tell you. You opened this blog on an impulse. And where did that impulse come from?
\nYou. It came from you.
\nWhy? Why did the impulse originate in you? What caused that to happen? And from what part of you did it come? And here\u2019s an even larger question: How is it that this blog just happened to be here\u2014right here, where you are, right now\u2014for you to even see, much less have an impulse about?
\nAh, yes, now that is the key question. If you knew the answer to that question you could change your whole life.
\nHere\u2019s the answer to that question. Get ready to change your whole life.
\nThis blog, written on this topic, just \u201chappened\u201d to be here, right here, right now, because you placed it here.
\nYou caused it to be here. It may not seem as though you did this, but you did. How? With quantum physics. People often use quantum physics without knowing it, without being consciously aware of it.
\nQuantum physics (read that, science, in case you think this is far fetched) says that \u201cnothing that is observed is unaffected by the observer.\u201d If this is true (and it is), then you played a role in all of what is now occurring, exactly as it\u2019s occurring. The only question is whether you did this consciously or unconsciously, knowingly or unknowingly, wittingly or unwittingly. But you did do it, I assure you.
\nYou attracted this blog to you and you caused yourself to be aware of it and you are now reading it\u2014all out of your deep desire to be happier.
\nThis article made its way from my keyboard to Beliefnet.com to your eyes in a way that has nothing to do with accident or coincidence and happenstance. None of this has occurred by chance.
\nSo be happy. You have just witnessed the most extraordinary mechanism in the Universe. You have just witnessed the Mechanism of Manifestation.
\nLet me put this another way. You have just witnessed\u2026
\n\u2026God, in action.
\n(And if that doesn\u2019t make you happy, nothing will.) And that is the other half of the mystery formula I just spoke of. God is the other half.
\nAll over the place these days we\u2019re hearing about the Law of Attraction and the Way of Creation and Mechanics of Manifestation \u2013 but very, very few words are being spoken about God in all of this.
\nWhy, if a person wasn\u2019t careful, he or she might even think that manifestation is a singular experience, that \u201ccreation\u201d is something we are doing on our own. It is not. It is something we are doing in collaboration with God.
\nWhen we \u201cwork with life\u201d in that way, we find ourselves in very, very happy circumstances more than we might ever have hoped or imagined. Just how to work in close collaboration with God is now the chief topic of the public lectures, process-oriented spiritual renewal workshops, and seminars that I am currently presenting around the world. It is also the subject of my most recent writing.
\n(Neale Donald Walsch\u2019s latest book, HAPPIER THAN GOD: A Master\u2019s Manual for Spiritual Awakening, will be released by Hampton Roads Publishing Company in March.)
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\nIf you would like to discuss these and other
\nimportant spiritual and temporal matters with
\nNeale Donald Walsch, and, indeed,
\nif you would like to become a messenger of
\nthe New Spirituality, join Neale in the
\nMessengers’ Circle, a subscription-based
\narea of the author\u2019s website at www.nealedonaldwalsch.com<\/a>
\nNeale personally responds in that location
\non his website to many of the Comments
\nposted here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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