{"id":76,"date":"2007-09-18T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T01:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/conversationswithgod\/2007\/09\/the-place-for-action-in-a-spir.html"},"modified":"2007-09-18T01:01:01","modified_gmt":"2007-09-18T01:01:01","slug":"the-place-for-action-in-a-spir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/conversationswithgod\/2007\/09\/the-place-for-action-in-a-spir.html","title":{"rendered":"The Place for Action in a Spiritual World"},"content":{"rendered":"

(This weblog creates, for us all, a chance to meet at the interaction of Life and the New Spirituality. It is written by the author of <\/em>Conversations with God, the worldwide best-selling series of books. The \u201cNew Spirituality\u201d is defined by the author as \u201ca new way to experience and express our natural impulse toward the Divine without making others wrong for the way in which they are doing it.\u201d)<\/em><\/p>\n

HIGHLIGHTS OF TODAY’S BLOG…
\n* The function and the process of Life<\/em>
\n* Action is the highest form of prayer<\/strong>
\n* The road to Self Realization is from Knowing to Experiencing to Being
\n* This is how the Soul evolves <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I was waking from a deep sleep early one morning recently when I kept hearing words in my head. Over and over the same words. There were seven of them, and they repeated themselves softly, without urgency or insistence, but also without ceasing.
\nI knew that I would not \u201cget it out of my head\u201d until I wrote the words down, because it was clear that I was not to forget them.
\nHere they are…<\/p>\n

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Action is the highest form of prayer.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hmmmm, I thought as I scribbled them on a piece of paper from the nightstand, where is that<\/em> coming from?
\nOf course, I knew where it was coming from. That is, I knew what the source\/<\/em> was. What I didn\u2019t know was, From what Larger Idea is this thought emerging? Where is this coming from\u2026<\/em> ?
\nI decided to put my hands on a keyboard and see what showed up on my computer screen. Here\u2019s what I received\u2026<\/p>\n

\nIt has been said that Beingness<\/em> is the highest form of existence. And this is true. But what leads<\/em> to Beingness? Action. That is why You have been placed into the Physical. For it is in moving around the energy that you would call \u201cphysical\u201d that Beingness is most profoundly demonstrated.
\nIt is the purpose of Life to BE Who You Really Are.
\nIt is the function of Life to provide You with opportunities to experience that. It is the process of Life to move you into that expression and experience.
\nHere is how the process works. First, you decide Who You Are Next Going to Be. This is a spiritual undertaking and a spiritual function. It is an invitation to the soul from The Soul; to the Little Self from the Big Self; to the Individuation from the Unification. It is the next idea from the Divine. It is what creates Growth. It is the fuel of Evolution.
\nOnce you \u201cget\u201d this Idea, you can never let it go, and it will not \u201clet go of you\u201d, until it is fully expressed. This may take many lifetimes. But it does not have to.
\nWhat You are \u201cup to\u201d, what You are engaged in, is a process by which you seek to make this new idea of the Self \u201creal\u201d This is called Self Realization.
\nThe mechanism by which you produce Self Realization is called Experience. Experience is the device, or the tool, through which you turn Knowing into Being. This is a physical undertaking and a physical function. It is why physicality exists.
\nOnce you Experience who you Know your Self to Be, you move into Beingness.<\/em> The State of Being into which you move is neither physical nor spiritual, but a third state altogether which is both, and therefore neither. It is when you Know and Experience simultaneously. In this state there is no Time, only simultaneosity. Everything occurs sequentaneously.
\nThis Third State is the apex of the Holy Triangle. It is Complete Awareness and Total Expression of the Pure Essence of Who You Are. It is bliss. It is nirvana. It is heaven. It is Unification. It is Self Realization.
\nThis Complete Awareness and Total Expression can occur at any \u201cmoment\u201d during the process that you call Life. Indeed, it is occurring at every<\/em> \u201cmoment,\u201d because there is no such thing as Time. It is occurring sequentaneously. It is Always Occurring, and you simply do not Know it. Because you do not Know it, you do not Experience it.
\nTherefore, Self Realization is not a process of accomplishing, it is a process of awakening to what has already been accomplished. It is not something You achieve, it is something you become aware that you have already achieved. Indeed, at the highest level it is clear that this is not even something that you have \u201cachieved,\u201d for achievement implies that there was something you had to \u201cdo\u201d to Become this — and there is not. You ARE this, and always were this, for the Idea and the Expression of it is and always will be Simultaneous. It is Full Awareness which reveals this to You.
\nWhen you pray, you are asking God for this Full Awareness. You may not think of it this way consciously, but that is what you are doing, whether you know it or not, whether you call it that or not.
\nYet your life as you live it<\/em> is the process by which you turn what you Know of your Self into what you Experience of your Self, thus producing what you are Being Now. Therefore, all the words that you put into your fervent prayer do not have half the power of what you do<\/em> when you get up off your knees. How you behave<\/em> between visits to the Temple is how you Be-Have the Experience of what you Know about your Self.
\nAction is the highest form of prayer.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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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
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\nMessengers’ Circle, a subscription-based
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\nOccasionally Neale personally responds
\nin that location on his website to the Comments
\nposted here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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