Ever wonder how you could be happier than God? Do you think it is even possible? I do! I think that life was meant to be happy. It is not, of course, for a great many people a great deal of the time...but I do believe it was meant to be...
So what can "close the gap" between what was intended and what is actually happening? Ah, great question! Why, it could take a whole book to answer such a question! And we're in luck! Because today is the Big Day! Today is Release Day for Happier Than God, the latest book in the CwG cosmology.
I am so excited about this book! This is a TOOL BOX for all of those who have read Conversations with God. It takes the inspiring messages of CwG and renders them functional in our every day lives.
I call this book "A Master's Manual for Spiritual Awakening." It is a marvelously clear explanation of How Life Works, with a deep exploration of the Process of Personal Creation and the Mechanism of Manifestation.
Above all, it is a sweet revealing and a powerful unveiling of how we can partner with God -- and are already doing so without knowing it -- in producing the experiences of our day-to-day lives.
The book talks about how average, every day people (you don't have to be a guru or a saint) can work in direct collaboration with The Divine to turn ordinary lives into extraordinary experiences.
It is not a book of "spiritual theory." It provides a plan that can change lives. Included is a program that I call 17 Steps to being Happier Than God, an incremental approach that combines the best of the conceptual truths of the 9-book Conversations with God series with the clearest description yet of how to turn those concepts into practical tools for altering life for the better -- forever.
Check it out! If you liked the Conversations with God books, you're going to love this "Tool Box for CwG"! Simply look to the right of this blog and click on the HAPPIER THAN GOD icon.
This may be the most practical spiritual books you will ever read.
Here are a few "pull quotes" from the early Reader Reviews at Amazon.com (the book has been on advance sale for just over a week now, and a few purchasers have posted their reactions to the book online...)
"I read this book in a day and a half. I just could not put it down. I have been studying the law of attraction and positive thinking for a long time now, but always felt there was a piece of the puzzle missing. Neale Donald Walsch does an excellent job putting it all together and I was finally able to find the piece that was missing.
"I love the way he explains how the law of attraction works. Of all the books I have read in the subject I have never seen anyone explain it as clear. The author really makes everything make sense.
Buy the book, and read it. It is a very profound, very spiritual, to the point book." (by M. Alfonso)
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"This book is amazing. This is my first review and I felt compelled to make sure others found out this book is not to be missed!
"I was still on the first chapter when I knew this book was a gem. This book is true spirituality, and it's not about how to conjure a dream home, a six-figure income, or an SUV. You can have that, nothing wrong with it, and the book will explain how and why. And that is why this book is sooo good.
"If you are curious about this book, it is not by chance." (by P. Vidal)
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"I have to say, the title of this book, "Happier than God," kind of threw me at first. But it was written by Neale Donald Walsch, and I really liked his Conversations with God books, so I thought I'd give the book a chance. I'm glad I did!
"I still might have used a different title, but the points he makes are very good. He notes that what is missing from all the current talk about the Law of Attraction (due to the success of The Secret) is God. He explains that some people have misinterpreted the Law to mean you should put all your faith in yourself - in other words, you don't need God. All you've got to do is use the power of your thoughts to attract to you whatever you want.
"In this book, he explains God's role in the process of personal creation. He notes that the ability to create your reality is an expression of God. He says the process really has 3 parts: the first has to do with God, the second has to do with you, and the third with you and God together. He then expounds on how personal creation really works.
"He also indicates that the law of attraction works most effectively and creates greater happiness when you focus first on helping others and then on yourself. He notes this is true because when you focus on yourself, you limit the amount of energy you send out into the Universe, because there's only one of you. When you focus on others, you multiply the amount of energy you output by the number of others you focus on. And, since we are all connected, you benefit as well as the people you help.
"He concludes the book by providing 17 steps to being truly happy. A few examples are:
- Eliminate any thought of separation from God
- Decide that you are not your story
- Bypass the drama
- Drop all expectations
"This is a very powerful book that I would recommend to anyone wishing to experience happiness within a spiritual context!" (by Kara D. Lane, Author, Wake Up to Powerful Living)
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I hope you feel encouraged to acquire this book today. Please consider doing so right now. Just click on the box over at the right, where you see the cover of the book. Thanks!
Love....Neale.
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Dear Robert,
I look forward to our conversations. I know that there is a healing in me that takes place everytime I am able to share my experiences, but even more exciting to me is that I might be able to help another person find the happiness they are searching for.
Have a wonderful day, and may God bless you with abundant revelation!
Kim G.
Dear Michelle,
This flu bug caught up to me also. It was pretty miserable. That is why I didn't get on the computer myself for a couple days. I was in a complete fog. There was no way I could hold on to my thoughts. I just took it as a sign to slow down and welcomed being able to relax my brain from the thought process for awhile. Ha Ha!
I prayed for your children's quick recovery and that it will leave your home even quicker. With that many children I also prayed for your strength, energy, and health to be doubled. I am sure it is needed as I could only handle three children. I admire people who can manage more. Are all your children still at home?
As I said to Robert, I really look forward to our conversations.
God bless you and your children with great health in abundance.
Kim G
A more pertinant question would be whether or not a God that created this world even deserves to be happy.
Dear Charles,
I can say that your question never occured to me. I tend to find many miracles, happiness, joy, laughter, awe inspiring things in even the littlest of things. Yes, at times it does take a little work to find the humor in things, but I rarely fail to find it.
It sounds to me that you are blaming God for the ways of some people. God made this world to be something much, much better than it is. It was in the fact that He gave us free will that I could see you may have a problem with. Even in this I have learned what a great gift it is to be able to have a choice in how we will create, handle, deal, etc..
Most people who feel as you do come from a place of much disappointment and pain, or have had the opposite extreme, where life was way too easy and find it hard to deal with. It is one or the other. It is because they are unable to find a balance within themselves. It is our job to search out the lessons in each thing that we encounter. I have found a lesson in litterally everything in life. I have no regrets in life because of this. Often we don't want to find these things that are being taught to us because it means more work. We have become lazy in the way we handle ourselves. By this I mean that we avoid learning a lesson because often we would have to point the finger at ourself. This is the hardest! It is not an easy thing to look at yourself in the most honest light, and then know you may have been the cause of, by your actions, words, etc.., any bad that has occured in the world. It is even harder for some, once they see their error, to change within themselves so to better the outcome next time.
The other reason we don't want to find our lessons is because then if we were wrong in how we handled something or we found out we are to blame for anything, we then feel the responsibility to make things right. These are two reasons people play the blame game. For many people, it is easier to blame others than it is to look within and act on the responsibility that it brings.
We really do need to teach ourselves how to reprogram our thinking. I am working on how I react with people. I have been accused, (and I agree it is true), that I am way too sensitive. This causes my reaction to things and people to be more critical. Instead of looking at a person who just offended me in a bad way and judge them to be wrong, I now am working on turning my focus on myself right away. I ask my self, why does this make me mad, or I try to stop for that split second and say to my self, "I am in control of how I want to perceive this."
Can you imagine that if everyone started to do this how our world could be!? Most of the bad in this world comes from people's quick reaction to others. I don't blame God! Take the person who has an adolescent that they are raising. Anyone who has done this can tell you that there is always an ocassion where even though you taught the child better, that child will at some point do something you said not to do. When asked why they did what they did, the child replies with an "I don't know". Now, we know why we told that child not to do it. It was because we wanted to save them from the consequences. Does God not give us the list for "Things NOT To Do"? We turn around and do them anyway because we want to learn for our Self, or for reasons we at times don't even know (Too quick to react perhaps).
Hope this explains why I did not entertain that question.
God bless in abundant revelation!
Kim G
I just finished reading Happier than God and loved it. It did help answer some of my questions about the women being raped in Darfur and other atrosities in that area. Again thank you for another great book.
I am looking for a kids audio book that I had when I was a kid, however i dont remember the name. It had a song in it titled I was that missing piece of puzzle. and the book started out with "look at the stars arent they shiny, i can count all of them ican count all the way to 100.If any one can remember anything about this book please e mail me at jasonmadrid1977@yahoo.com.
thank you
Jason
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