What is THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS? Follow the search for that answer here... (Book Excerpt #141…Note: This picks up where the last excerpt left off. For purposes of continuity, daily reading will prove very helpful.) A Final Tool THERE IS ONE MORE TOOL you’ll want to know about. It is the final tool that will be described for you here, and it was saved for last because its effect can be perhaps the most profound impact produced by any tool, creating a truly extraordinary effect. This is a tool that you will use on everyone in your life who has ever done anything in any way negative to you—and you will use it not by using it, but by throwing it away. The tool in question is . . . FORGIVENESS ~ Let’s begin our description of this tool by looking at what it has in common with all of the others. Every one of the tools that you have been offered here is designed to produce one basic experience: freedom. That is because freedom is the essence of Divinity. There are a lot of words used to describe the fundamental quality of Divinity in human terms—love, peace, joy, etc.—but the word “freedom” comes closest, perhaps, to capturing the primary quality from which all others flow. A person who is absolutely and totally free . . . and this does not mean merely being free to do anything he wants anytime, anywhere he wants, but it also means being free of any sorrow or sadness, any struggle or suffering, any wounds or injuries, any tragedy or torment—anything whatsoever in the past that could cloud or diminish or impact in any unpleasant way the Moment that is Present . . . a person who is this kind of free would love everybody and everything, always be at peace, inevitably experience joy, be forever captivated by Life’s wonder, and feel, from one Moment to the next, simply Divine. So if the experience of Divinity is your goal—(and it is, whether you have known it or not), then that which produces freedom would be the tools you try to find, so that you might construct your reality (which is totally an inner creation and experience that essentially determines what outer events and circumstances mean) in such a way that you would never be unhappy for any reason ever again. Such a state of being would then allow you to move forward with the Agenda of the Soul, advancing rapidly and reaching Completion on your Sacred Journey, thus using virtually every Moment of your Life to serve the Divine Purpose. This is the way Lao-tzu lived. This is the way Buddha lived. This is the way Jesus lived. This is the way that all spiritual masters have walked the earth. All of these masters, and many more, have said quite directly, each in their own way, that an achievable goal for all human beings was freedom from suffering—which produced everything else that a holy and good life would allow. The tools you have been given here do just that. Gratitude will give you freedom from struggle and suffering, in an instant. Recontextualization will give you freedom from anger and resentment, in an instant. Compassion will give you freedom from self-blame and lack of self-worth, and from frustration with others, in an instant. And now your final gift, Forgiveness, will give you freedom from all hurt, damage, or injury in any way from any source. Forgiveness will give you this on the day that you decide you never have to use it again—on the day that you throw it away. It is the discarding of the tool, not the using of it, wherein which its tremendous power is unleashed—like a coiled spring let out of a box. So perhaps the tool should really be called Forgiveness Forgone. On the day that you understand that you don’t have anyone to forgive —and you never had anyone to forgive for anything at all, because all human expressions are ultimately an expression of love, if only in a distorted form, as we discussed in Chapter 16—you will be free, no matter what has occurred in your life. Free from struggle, free from suffering, at last. This is the kind of freedom that Nelson Mandela felt, allowing him to love the jailers who keep him imprisoned for over 20 years, to use one recent, and striking, human example. This is the kind of freedom that Pope John Paul II felt when he went to the jail cell of the man who shot and nearly killed him, giving the gunman his papal blessing. ================================= ================================== Visit this site: CWGConnect to find out more. (NOTE from NDW SUPPORT: Neale considers THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS (just released from Hay House) to be his most important book to emerge from Gods inspiration since Conversations with God. Neales dream is that everyone could read every word thats in this text. He is therefore posting the entire book, line-by-line, here on Facebook, in daily excerpts. He hopes that you will find the book as beneficial as he has.)
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