(Note: This picks up where the last excerpt left off.
For purposes of continuity, daily reading will prove very
helpful.)
For now, let’s get back to the original literary
style. That style assumes this book is being written by someone else
and you’re reading it. Let’s accept that idea and return to the
original question: What does matter? And . . . if you 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 a
monastery? Become an ascetic? “Drop out,” as thousands did in the
sixties counterculture of hippies in communes disillusioned with
conventional values?
No. The idea here is not to walk away, or
to walk around in a meditative daze, abandoning all constructive
activity. The idea is to refocus your life’s intention, so that one
day it may be said that 98% of your time is being spent on things
that do matter.
The surprise here will be that when this
happens, your activities themselves probably won’t change very
much. Even if everyone on the planet read this book, agreed with it,
and began spending 98% of their time on what does matter, people’s
activities wouldn’t change that much.
People would still get
up and go to work—or create some way to survive.
People
would still marry and have kids—or create someone to love and by
whom to be loved.
People would still run and jump and dance
and sing and laugh—or create some way to entertain themselves, to
bring joy into their days and nights, and to be happy.
So the
question becomes: if what humans do won’t change that much, what
will make what they do suddenly matter?
The answer lies not in
what they do, but in how and why they do it. The answer is: something
matters if it leads to and produces a particular kind of result—a
result desired by the Soul. A result desired by Life Itself.
It
is when the way in which you are doing anything facilitates the
Larger Goal that you are seeking to reach that it matters.
Yet
what human beings are doing cannot facilitate what they are trying to
accomplish if they don’t know what they are trying to accomplish.
They must be aware of the Larger Goal they are seeking to reach. And
therein lies the problem. Most people don’t know what they’re
doing.
That is not meant in any way pejoratively. It is a
simple statement of fact. Most people have little understanding of
the nature of the Journey they 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 moving 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 we’re not careful, we’ll all wind up exactly where we’re
headed.”
Today the earth is populated with billions of people
desperately hoping to “get somewhere,” but having no idea of
where they’re
going.
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(NOTE from NDW SUPPORT: Neale considers THE
ONLY THING THAT MATTERS (just released from Hay House) to be his most
important book to emerge from God's inspiration since "Conversations
with God." Neale's dream is that everyone could read every word
that's in this text. He is therefore posting the entire book,
line-by-line, here on Facebook, in daily excerpts. He hopes that you
will find the book as beneficial as he has.)
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