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Life has a reason and a purpose. All people yearn o know wha i is.

Mos have no ye clearly unders ood.

We have been old ha humani ys Basic Ins inc is survival.Ta is no our Basic Ins inc a all.


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only thingthat

neale donald walsch

matters

conversations with humanity

Book 2 in the

Series

the


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Copyright 2012 by Neale Donald Walsch

Published in the United States by: Emnin Books, 324 Wimer St., Ashland, OR 97520 [email protected]

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tions embodied in articles and reviewswithout prior written permission of the publisher.

Te author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any techniqueas a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a

physician, either directly or indirectly. Te intent of the author is only to offer information ofa general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. In the eventyou use any of the information in this book for yourself, which is your constitutional right,

the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.

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ISBN: 978-1-4019-4236-6

Digital ISBN: 978-1-4019-4186-4

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Tis book is dedicated to Em Claire, the American poet whose voice hasbrought an end to loneliness and a new level of feeling, insight, clarity, hon-esty, and beauty to thousands of people around the world. I am thankful forthe gifts she has given to us all, and to me, in a special, life-changing, and

heart-stopping way, as my dearest friend, my wife, and, truly, my Other.


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Part One

Four short conversationsbeginning a longer exploration

that you have been yearningto undertake for quite some time.


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Your Soul Knows Exactly What It Is Doin

D C J : It is wonderful that you have come here.Tere is something you wish to know and something you wish to do,

and Life understands this. Tat is why you are reading this.Here is what you wish to know . . .

98% of he worlds peopleare spending 98% of heir ime

on hings ha don mater.

You have been part of that 98%. Now you are no longer. From thisday forward you choose to spend your time on Te Only Ting Tat

Matters. Te question is, what is that? Here is what you wish to do . . .

Find your answero ha ques ion.

Tis requires a deep exploration of the Self. You are in the right place

for such an important and remarkable undertaking. rust that. If youwerent in the right place to nd your answer, you would not be here. Do


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he Only hing ha Ma ers

Tink this: My Soul knows exactly what it is doing. Also, think this: My Soul already knows what really matters.

So it is not a question of nding that answer, it is a question ofremembering . It is not a process of discovery, it is a process of recovery. Tisdata does not have to beresearched, it merely has to beretrieved .

Lets begin here.

Something very unusual is occurring on this planet right now. Youhave no doubt noticed it. It may be producing a more than normal amountof challenge and disjointedness in your life, and perhaps even some majorupheavals. You are probably noticing it in the lives of others as well.

For a while you may have thought that this was all just your mindplaying tricks on you; that things were not really happening any differ-ently, and that youre just a little tired, a little overcommitted, a little

oversensitive.But now, as each day presents itself with obstacles mounting and chal-

lenges increasing and more and more personal issues coming up to befaced and healed, it is apparent that all of this is not an illusion, not anexaggeration. So you may be asking: Why is all this happening? Whatam I doing wrong?

And heres the answer . . .

Youre doingnothing wrong. AND . . . there issomething very unusual going on right now in your

life, and all over this planet.

Call it an energy shift, call it a cosmic cycle, call it the overhaul of human-

ity, or whatever you will, but whats occurring on Earth right now is, youcan be sure, very real. Its touching lives emotionally, physically, and spiri-


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Your Soul Knows Exac ly W ha I Is Doing

Tis experience is global in scope. alk to people. Just ask them. alkto people anywhere, everywhere. Teyll tell you: Yes, life has been tumul-

tuous lately. More than usual. More than normal. For some, more thanever.Now theres a danger here, and that danger is not in what is happen-

ing, but in how you may construe what is happening. Te danger is thatyou will view whats going on as bad, and then react from utter frustra-tion or fear, or even anger (which is Fear Announced), doing exactly theopposite of what would serve you.

Te biggest danger is that because of the inaccuracy of your perception,you will miss a once-in-a-lifetime (literally a once-in-a-lifetime) opportunity.

Te good news is that your Soul is working hard to make sure youdont do that. It is working at this right now, in this moment.

One last time: Do you really think it ishappenstance that you are read-ing this . . . ?


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Can You Believe Tis?

L . It may not seem that way to you right now, and youmay guffaw when you hear this, but Life loves you and is supporting you,and that is why you are receiving a Special Invitation from Life on this day.

You may actually be able to feel this invitationmuch as you some-

times sense in the sleepy hours of the morning that its time to wake up.Have you ever had that feeling? Nothing in particular is happening.

Teres no alarm going off. No one has come into the room to stir you.Teres just an inner knowing: Its time to wake up.

You may be feeling these days a muted excitement stirring within,generating a restless readiness to respond to a gentle but persistent innervoice that keeps whispering . . .

. . . I .

Tat inner voice is correct. Your life does not have to be a series of worri-some and challenging crises involving nances or relationships or health

or familyor all of the above. Or, for that matter, on some days nothingin particular . . . just a nagging sense ofout-of-orderness.


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life.Tis has no doubt resulted in an expansion of the effectthat all of Lifehas on youand this could feel as if everythingsin your way, standing

between you and peace, because the same kinds of life experiences thatyou encountered with little difficulty just a short while ago now feel liketheyre going to put you on overload.

Youve probably been wondering whats going on, and why you dontseem to be handling things as easily anymore.

Well, its all very simple: Youre not becoming less able, youre becom-ing more capable than ever. But youre growing into thatas Life calls upon

you to pay more attention to more things in more ways more of the time. Add to this the fact that there is more data in toto of which you can

become aware (the worlds new technologies have placed more informationat the ngertips of a 15-year-old today than that to which the Presidentof the United States had access a few years ago)and you can see thechallenge.

And it hasnt stopped there. More things seem to be falling apart all at

once all over the place than ever beforefrom nancial systems to politi-cal systems to social systems, and even weather systems.

So here you are, in the middle of Te Perfect Storm: a conuence ofexpanding energies, enlarging noticements, and rapidly multiplying negativeevents that are producing some very interesting times. o say the least . . .some

Very.

Interesting.imes.

Yet it is as spiritual teacher Mary OMalley wonderfully and suc-cinctly puts it: Whats in the wayis the way.

Te reason that lifes events seem to many people to be in the wayis thatmany people have no ideawhere theyre going.Tey do not know that on


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Can You Believe his?

Te obstacles that people are encountering have not been plunkeddown suddenly and ruthlessly by Life, right in the middle of the path

theyre traveling. Rather, the path theyre travelingis the one with obstaclesalready on it . Why? Why would people be traveling the road with all the detours,

all the pitfalls and potholes and stumbling blocks, and nally, all thedead ends?

Its because theyve been given poor directions, or a very badly drawnmap.

Te way people have been told theyre supposed to go is not the waythey came here to go. And that is why 98% of the worlds people arespending 98% of their time on things that just dont matter.

When you turn that around, youll turn your life around.


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you know that you know, you will yearn to knowwhat you know, speci-cally . Your Mind will want to know what yourSoul is aware of.

It is in your Soul that your deepest awareness lies, for awarenesssprings from Knowledge, and your Soul is where true knowledge is found.Te Mind stores Experiencewhich ismistakenfor Knowledge.

And so now you may ask: Howcan I access all of this Knowledge that Isupposedly possess?

Fair question. Very good question. And the answer? Te simplest way toretrieve information that you alreadyhold about life (but may have forgotten that you holdor forgotten howto access) is tocall it forth.

Tis is another way of saying: Bring it forward . Place it at the fore-front of your thoughts.

You can do this in two ways.One way is to gather it from a place that appears to be outside of you.

Tat is what you appear to be doing right now. A second way is to gather information from a place that isinsideof

you. Tat is what you are actually doing right now.It looks as if you are doing the rst, but you are actually doing the

second.

You are being invited to meet Yourself hereand that is precisely whatyou came here to do. ( o Earth, not just to this book. But it will happenin this book, and be demonstrated in a most unusual way.)

One of the things that you already know, but that you sometimes

forget, is that nothing happens by accident, and that theres no such thing ascoincidence.

I s Impor an ha You Know ha YouKnow Wha You Know

A Soul Knowing:You already knowall that you need toknow, and youknow

that you know.


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Of course, it wasnt intended to be a shock. It was intended to be aconrmation. And conrmation is very timelyon this exact day, because

there are energies, situations, and circumstances in your life right nowthat have tempted you to seriouslyquestion what you knowif not denyit altogether.

Dont do that.Do.Not.Do.

Tat.Tat will not serve you.Tis will.Moving even more fully into this moment and this experience will.rust that your Soul knows, always, what will next serve you. In fact,

that is why what happens nexthappens next.


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Youre About to Become an Author

N what happens next. Youre not going to believe what happens next.

Youre going to be writing this book.Tats crazy, you could say. Im reading this book, not writing it.

Ah, yes, but wait. Magic is about to happen.

Have you ever heard the statement:We are all One ? Of course you have. Youve heard it a thousand times. But have you ever considered what it would be like if it weretrue? Not just conceptually, but actually, factually, functionally?

Well, it is true. Actually.Factually.Functionally.Teres no one else except You, in various forms.o many people this at rst sounds way out, and too abstract to

embrace as a working notion of reality. Yet considered within a larger con-


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Lets take a look. All of us are made of the same stuff, having evolved from the same

First Source. o use an analogy: When the ocean rst appeared, and thenexpanded, it was not created as something other than its drops. A dropof the ocean is the same as the ocean. Itis the ocean, in smaller form. Nosingle drop is other than the ocean. All the drops of the ocean are OneTing: HE OCEAN.

It would not, therefore, be inaccurate for one drop of the ocean tosay to another drop: We Are All One. Te second drop would simply

say, Of course we are. Just because wehave been singularized does not mean

we are other than each other, nor are we other than that of which we are asingularization. We are all the samething, Te Ocean, in singular form.

Tis is also true about human beings. We are all the Same Ting, sim-

ply individuated. We are not separate from Tat From Which We HaveEmerged, nor are we other than each other.

Now you might think, Well, thats all very nice, thats a very nice modelof the world, but theres no way to put that into practice in the reality of

our daily lives. And it would be understandable if you thought that. We are, after

all, appearing to be separate beings, even if we arent in fact. We are, to besure, acting as if we are separate beingseven if we are all the Same Stuff.

We are acting so much so that if the various Parts of Us toldotherPartsof Us that We think there is only One of Us, the other Parts of Us wouldlaugh at Us.

And if We insistedthat We Are All One, the other Parts of Us woulddo more than laugh at Us. Tey would put Us away somewhere, so that

A Soul Knowing:We are all the SameTing, individuated.


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Youre Abou o Become an Au hor

Why? Why all this ominous stuff that sounds as if its coming out ofa bad movie? Because the idea that We Are All Oneupsets every applecart

in the world. It upsets our global economy for sure. How would we proceed?It upsets our global polity for sure. How would we proceed?It upsets our global society for sure. How would we proceed?

And . . . here it comes . . . watch out now . . . it upsets our globaltheology forabsolutely , positivelysure. How would we proceed?

Everything we thought was true would not be true. Everything we

thought was not true would be true. How would we be able to stand upfor ourselves? How would we be able to ght for what is right? How would

we be able to justifykilling each other over what is right if we thought that we were killingourselves over what is not even true?

Okay, so maybe We should just drop the whole idea. Erase the statement: We Are All One.

Forget We said that. Allow yourself to encounter this material as if someone else wrote it

and youre just reading it. Maybe thats enough for the rst sit-down withthis book. Tats the safe way, and so it may be the better way. At least fornow. Perhaps We can get back to this a bit later . . . like, maybe, 10 chap-

ters from now . . . after more groundwork has been laid.Or maybe not. Well see.No, wait. We have to. Its an absolute Must, because its this Awareness

that creates the only context within which Te Only Ting Tat Matterscan emerge as an experience in our lives. So before were done here, youregoing to be invited into a felt sense that We Are All Onebecause youre

going to be writing this book.

But not just yet.


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For now, lets get back to the original literary style. Tat style assumes thisbook is being written by someone else and youre reading it. Lets accept

that idea and return to the original question: What doesmatter? And . . . ifyou pay attention to only that . . . what of the rest of your life?How do you live in this world without paying attention to the things

that you used to spend 98% of your time on? Hang out in a cave? Enter amonastery? Become an ascetic? Drop out, as thousands did in the sixtiescounterculture of hippies in communes disillusioned with conventionalvalues?

No. Te idea here is not to walk away, or to walk around in a medita-tive daze, abandoning all constructive activity. Te idea is torefocusyourlifes intention, so that one day it may be said that 98% of your time isbeing spent on things that do matter.

Te surprise here will be that when this happens, your activities them-selves probably wont change very much. Even if everyone on the planetread this book, agreed with it, and began spending 98% of their time on

what doesmatter, peoples activities wouldnt change that much.People would still get up and go to workor create some way to

survive.People would still marry and have kidsor create someone to love

and by whom to be loved.People would still run and jump

and dance and sing and laughor

create some way to entertain them-selves, to bring joy into their days andnights, and to be happy.

So the question becomes: if whathumans do wont change that much,

what will make what they do suddenlymatter?Te answer lies not in what they do, but in how and why they do it.

Te answer is: something matters if it leads to and produces a particularkind of resulta result desired by the Soul. A result desired by Life Itself.

A Soul Knowing:It is not what you

do, but how and whyyou do it, that makes

it matter.


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Youre Abou o Become an Au hor

Yet what human beings are doing cannot facilitate what they are try-ing to accomplish if they dontknow what they are trying to accomplish.

Tey must be aware of the Larger Goal they are seeking to reach. Andtherein lies the problem. Most people dont know what theyre doing.Tat is not meant in any way pejoratively. It is a simple statement of

fact. Most people have little understanding of the nature of the Journeythey are on, much less how to arrive at their desired destination.

It is the things they are doing day-to-day that play a huge role in mov-ing them toward, or away from, their Larger Goal, yet most are not aware

of where they were intending to go to begin with, and so, as one comedian wryly noted: If were not careful, well all wind up exactly where wereheaded.

oday the earth is populated with billions of people desperately hop-ing to get somewhere, but having no idea of where theyre going.

Te rst step in moving into clarity on where youre going is moving intoclarity on where you areright now, on whoyou are to begin with, and onwhy you are here .

On Earth, that is. What are you doing here? What is the point of this? What is Lifes

purpose?

Tese are the questions that have to be answered before you can beginto make decisions about Te Only Ting Tat Mattersto say nothingof living your daily life focused on that. So the next few chaptersPartwo of this bookwill be devoted to a deep investigation of these veryquestions.

As you move through these next pages, know that this is an explora-tion for which your Mind has earnestly yearned. Your Mind, you see, has

been trying for years to make sense of a life that makes no sense at all.Now, thanks to the Knowledge of your Soul, you will be placing every-


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The Only Thing That Matters

(NO E: If youre a bit impatient at this juncture and do not wish toengage in this investigation right now, but would rather move directly into

a discussion of what it looks like to focus your life in such a way that 98%of what you do doesmatter, feel free skip ahead to Part Tree of this book.But just to let you know: youre very likely to wind up going back to Partwo eventually, reading through the deep explorations in Chapters 518,because it is there that the whole construction of Lifewhich is whatmakesTe Only Ting Tat Matters matter is dened and described.)


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Go outside and play!said God.

I have given you Universes as elds to run ree in! And here take this and wrap yoursel in it

Its called: LOVEand it will always,always keep you warm.

And stars! Te sun and the moon and the stars!Look upon these ofen, or they will remind you o your own light!

And eyes . . . oh, gaze intoevery Lovers eyes;gaze intoevery Others eyes

or they have given youheir Universesas elds to run ree in.

Tere.I have given you everything you need.Now go, go, go ou side

and play!_____

Go Outside and Play2007 em claire


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