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The
Secret of Enlightenment: Know that you know
By Neale Donald Walsch,
author of “Conversations with God”
We hear a lot these days about this thing called "enlightenment." Yet what
is it? How do we get it?
Conversations with God Book 1 offers some marvelous wisdom about all this:
"What enlightenment asks you to do is to know something you have not
experienced, and thus experience it."
Most people think they can really "know" what they "know" if they experience it.
Yet enlightenment says, "supposing you could know a thing without experiencing
it?"
And, of course, we can. In fact, most of what we know, we know without having an
experience of it. We are simply taking the word of others. And that
is the problem. We are taking the word of others--others who think they
know about things--rather than going within to see what we have to tell
ourselves.
There exists inside ourselves a Place of Wisdom which is (believe it or not)
infallible. In this place is perfect understanding, perfect clarity.
If we would but listen to ourselves, rather than to the words of others who
claim to know the Truth, we will find that we are enlightened. Indeed, we
will find that we have been enlightened all along.
Once we decide what we know about a thing, we will experience it. For our
thought about a thing produces our reality. In this way, knowing precedes
experiencing. Indeed, it produces it.
This is an extraordinary key. It is so simple, and yet for many it is
difficult to accept. Yet every Master has taught,
"As you believe, so will it be
done unto you."
We will soon be starting a New Year, and this would be a wonderful time to
recreate what you Know; a wonderful time to "become enlightened."
So go within, and give yourself permission to know, and to "know that you
know," what is really true about life, about yourself, and about God.
This will then become part of your experience. - NDW
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