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.
True masters are those who've chosen to make a life rather than a living.
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What this quote means
This quote emphasizes the importance of pursuing a meaningful life over merely earning a paycheck.
Neale Donald Walsch highlights the distinction between living a life driven by purpose and passion versus one merely focused on financial survival. True mastery comes from individuals who invest in their personal growth, relationships, and aspirations, steering their lives toward fulfilling experiences rather than just the mundane cycle of work for income. It suggests that a life of meaning requires intention and dedication.
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Example use cases
In a motivational speech about career choices, one might say, 'As Neale Donald Walsch reminds us, true masters are those who've chosen to make a life rather than a living.'
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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.
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