All people are special, and all moments are golden. There is no person and there is no time more special than another. Many people choose to believe that God communicates in special ways and only with special people. This removes the mass of the people from responsibility for hearing God's message, much less receiving it (which is another matter), and allows them to take someone else's word for everything.
Interpretation
Every person holds inherent value, and all moments are significant; individuals shouldn't defer their spiritual understanding to others.
This quote emphasizes the idea that every individual and every moment possesses unique worth. It critiques the tendency for people to believe that communication from God is reserved for a select few, thus abdicating their personal responsibility to engage with their own spirituality and understandings. Walsch advocates for recognizing that everyone has the capacity to perceive and interpret spiritual messages, suggesting that there is no need to rely solely on others' interpretations.
In practice
In a discussion about equality and individuality during a community gathering.
What you hope, you will eventually believe. _x000D_ What you believe you will eventually know. What you know, you will eventually create. What you create, _x000D_ you will eventually experience. What you experience, _x000D_ you will eventually express. What you express, _x000D_ you will eventually become. _x000D_ This is the formula for all of life.
Fear and guilt are your only enemies. Love and awareness are your true friends. Do not confuse one with the other, for one will kill you, while the other gives you life.
Your whole life is a message. Every act is an act of self-definition . Everything you think, say and do sends a message about you.
Love lets go. Need holds on. This is the way you can tell the difference between need and love. Let go of expectation, let go of requirements and rules and regulations that you would impose on your loved ones.
When you find peace within, you also find that you can do without. This means simply that you no longer need the things of your outside world, and not needing is a great freedom.
Giving up is not the answer. Neither is giving in. Stand your ground. There is a way of doing that without having to be combative. There is a way of hanging on to your true self, and demonstrating it, without resorting to aggression. But giving up and giving in is not the way. Simply and quietly claiming your right to be You is the way.
In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in the long term.
The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.
Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.
And what? What's the other choice? To passively let things happen and then say: "Tut-tut, what at botch that was"? Don't we all manipulate people? Even if we openly ask them to make a choice, don't we try to frame it so they'll chose as we think they should?
Money is human happiness in the abstract.
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. The industrial society ... recognises nothing except the power to acquire ... No other kind of hope or satisfaction or pleasure can any longer be envisaged within the culture of capitalism.
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