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Idea of God
by Neale Donald Walsch
(us author)


Not knowing how to manifest love to one another, you live on a planet where selfless love is an unknown idea, where unconditional love is very rarely practiced and where unlimited love is considered "wrong."
Human beings have created a way of life where feeling one with everyone else all the time can get a person into trouble.
We might even call the three killers of love: need, expectation and jealousy.

Many people try to acquire what they think they need.
They give what they possess in exchange for what they want to have: and they call this process love.
It is important to understand how you came to have these ideas of love.
You imagine that this is the right way to show your love for one another, because you have been taught that this is how God loves you.
God would make a covenant with you:
If you love Me, I will let you enter heaven, otherwise nothing to do.

Someone told you that God is made like that, and you also became like that.
Thus, in your human mythology, you have created a legend that you live every day: love is conditional.
Yet this is not the truth, but a myth.
It is part of your cultural history, but not part of God's reality.
God does not need anything, so He does not ask anything of you.
How can a God need anything?
God is the All-in-One, the Immovable Engine, the Source of everything.

So listen carefully, because now comes the clearest part.
You are made in the image and likeness of God.
You already know this, for it is what you have been taught.
So you, being made in My image and likeness, have thought that experiencing such desires is normal and have created your own fatal attractions.
But now I tell you that I have no needs.
What I have within Me is all I need to express what I am outside of Me.
This is the true nature of God, of the God whose image and likeness you were created in.

Do you understand the wonder of this fact?
Can you see its implications?
You also have no needs.
There is nothing that is necessary for you to be completely happy.
The deepest and most perfect happiness lies within you, and once you have found it, no internal factor can match or destroy it.


(from: "Friendship with God: a dialogue out of the ordinary")