Excerpts from “Friendship with God” by Neale Donald Walsch

True teaching is not a process by which you learn, but by which you are caused to remember. There is nothing here that is new to you. Your soul is being startled by none of this. True teaching is never a process of putting knowledge in, but of drawing knowledge out. The real Master knows he has no greater knowledge than the student, only greater memory.

You said you wanted to know how to apply - in the real world, in everyday life, as practical, functioning truth - what you have found in our conversations to be of value. I am suggesting ways in which you may accomplish that. I am helping you get what you want. This is what it means to have a friendship with God.

Awareness is a state of being in which you may choose to live. It means to be awake to the moment. It is about being keenly observant about what is so, and why; about what is occurring, and why; about what can cause it not to occur, and why; about all the possible - and the most probable - outcomes of any choice or action, and what makes them possible and probable.

To live in awareness is to not pretend that you do not know.

Remember, I told you that there appear to be those who know, but who pretend that they do not know. Awareness is about being aware, and being aware that you are aware. It is about being aware that you are aware that you are aware, and about being aware that you are aware that you are aware that you are aware.

Awareness has many levels.

Awareness is about being aware of the level of awareness of which you are aware, and it is about being aware that there is no level of awareness of which you cannot be aware, if you are aware of that.

When you live in a life of awareness, you no longer do things unconsciously. You cannot because you are aware that you are doing something unconsciously, and that, of course, means you are doing it consciously.

It is not difficult living a life of awareness when you are aware that it is not difficult. Awareness feeds on itself.

When you are unaware of awareness, then you cannot know what it is like. You do not even that you do know. You have forgotten. You really do know, but you have forgotten that you know, and so you might as well not know at all. That is why remembering is so important.

Awareness is about noticing the moment. It is about stopping, looking, listening, feeling, experiencing fully what is happening. It is a meditation. Awareness turns everything into a meditation. Washing dishes. Making love. Cutting the grass. Saying a word out loud to another. All becoming a meditation.

What am I doing? How am I doing this? Why am I doing this? What am I being while I am doing this? Why am I being this while I am doing this?

What am I experiencing right now? How am I experiencing it? Why am I experiencing it the way I am experiencing it?

What am I being while I am experiencing it? Why am I being this while I am experiencing it? What does any of this have to do with what I am experiencing? What does any of this have to do with what other people are experiencing of me?

Awareness is moving to the level of the Unobserved Observer. You are watching yourself. And then you are watching yourself watching yourself. Finally, there is no one watching you watch yourself. You have become the Unobserved Observer.

That is Full Awareness.

It is easy. It is not as difficult or as complicated as it sounds. It is about stopping, looking, listening, feeling. It is about knowing, and knowing that you know. It is about ending the pretending.
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