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Your Soul's Eternal Life Is Guaranteed
Because all souls are the
naturally-occurring vibration
at the very center of Literally
Nothing, your soul's eternal
life is guaranteed—and that
is what really matters! In fact,
you have no choice in the matter
of your soul's eternal life; however,
you do have a choice in the way that
you live your soul's eternal life and
that is all that matters! In other words,
the way that you choose to live your
soul's eternal life is what turns into
the matter of your soul's eternal life...
-Paul Whiting
(a.k.a., Poet, Artist and Philosopher)
"I am the poet who thinks that he knows it!"
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My Writing About How Your Soul's Eternal Life Is Guaranteed: Because all souls are the naturally-occurring vibration at the very center of Literally Nothing, your soul's eternal life is guaranteed—and that is what really matters! In fact, you have no choice in the matter of your soul's eternal life; however, you do have a choice in the way that you live your soul's eternal life and that is all that matters! In other words, the way that you choose to live your soul's eternal life is what turns into the matter of your soul's eternal life... –Paul Whiting (written August 10th, 2016, revised August 11th, 2016 and revised October 14th, 2022)
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My Philosophical Notes:
The reason that I wrote this poem can be summed up with the following statement: I am rereading the "Conversations with God" series of books [which I reread from just shortly after June 5th, 2016 to exactly September 12th, 2016]... And I was rereading "The New Revelations: A Conversation with God," when I read the quote below on page 75, which inspired me to write the poem above:
"The gender-neutral Bible, these critics say, could 'throw innocent believers and new converts off the track to eternal life...'"
And this poem was formerly published on my "Three Dark Horses" and "Small All White in the Forest" blogs, but I decided to only publish "The 'Conversations with God' books-Inspired Posts" on my "Poet, Artist and Philosopher" blog, because these posts are more about philosophy and so is this blog.
Thus, this poem was only published on my "Poet, Artist and Philosopher" blog.
This poem was written in Portland, Oregon.
-Paulee
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"Conversations with God" from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia—which is funded primarily through donations from millions of individuals around the world, including this blogger (I make a totally affordable monthly donation):
"Conversations with God (CwG) is a sequence of books written by Neale Donald Walsch. It was written as a dialogue in which Walsch asks questions and God answers. The first book of the Conversations with God series, Conversations with God, Book 1: An Uncommon Dialogue, was published in 1995 and became a publishing phenomenon, staying on the New York Times Best-Sellers List for 137 weeks. The succeeding volumes in the nine book series also appeared prominently on the List.
In an interview with Larry King, Walsch described the inception of the books as follows: at a low period in his life, Walsch wrote an angry letter to God asking questions about why his life wasn't working. After writing down all of his questions, he heard a voice over his right shoulder say: 'Do you really want an answer to all these questions or are you just venting?' Though when he turned around he saw no one there, Walsch felt answers to his questions filling his mind and decided to write them down. The ensuing dialogue became the Conversations with God books. When asked in a recent interview how does he 'open up' to God these days, Neale stated 'I am reaching out to touch others with this information. When I reach out and touch others with this information I reconnect immediately with the divine presence.'"
CwG's basic messages:
"In Friendship with God, Walsch writes that God presents four concepts which are central to the entire dialogue:
1. We are all one.
2. There's enough.
3. There's nothing we have to do.
4. Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.
Existence is essentially non dual in nature. At the highest level there is no separation between anything and there is only one of us; there is only God, and everything is God. The second statement, following from the first, means that we, in this seeming existence, lack nothing and if we choose to realize it, we have enough of whatever we think we need (or the means to create it) within us. The third statement combines the first two to conclude that God, being all there is and is thus always sufficient unto Itself, has no need of anything and therefore has no requirements of humanity. The final concept puts an end to our need to always be right. Given that we have and are everything, and there's nothing we have to do, there are an infinite number of ways to experience this, not just the one way we may have chosen so far..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversations_with_God
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This "Poet, Artist and Philosopher" Post No. 125 was edited on May 5th, 2024.
"Poetry is using the fewest words possible in order to describe all that is possible to describe." –Paul Whiting [June 1st, 2022]
