Every tragedy of the human experience can be attributed to one human decision - the decision to withdraw from each other.
Interpretation
This quote highlights that human tragedies arise from our choice to disconnect from one another.
Neale Donald Walsch's quote suggests that the essence of human tragedy lies in the decisions we make to isolate ourselves from others. By withdrawing from interpersonal connections, we cultivate an environment that leads to suffering and hardship. Connection and community are vital, and the neglect of these can manifest in negative consequences experienced by individuals and societies alike.
In practice
This quote can be used in discussions about the importance of community during challenging times.
What you hope, you will eventually believe. _x000D_ What you believe you will eventually know. What you know, you will eventually create. What you create, _x000D_ you will eventually experience. What you experience, _x000D_ you will eventually express. What you express, _x000D_ you will eventually become. _x000D_ This is the formula for all of life.
Fear and guilt are your only enemies. Love and awareness are your true friends. Do not confuse one with the other, for one will kill you, while the other gives you life.
Your whole life is a message. Every act is an act of self-definition . Everything you think, say and do sends a message about you.
Love lets go. Need holds on. This is the way you can tell the difference between need and love. Let go of expectation, let go of requirements and rules and regulations that you would impose on your loved ones.
When you find peace within, you also find that you can do without. This means simply that you no longer need the things of your outside world, and not needing is a great freedom.
Giving up is not the answer. Neither is giving in. Stand your ground. There is a way of doing that without having to be combative. There is a way of hanging on to your true self, and demonstrating it, without resorting to aggression. But giving up and giving in is not the way. Simply and quietly claiming your right to be You is the way.
Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That's definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.
We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.
As I've thought about gay marriage, I don't see any reason not to say that [couples] should be able to get married.
It explains why people come home from work or school and immediately switch on the television. They are not interested in the program much of the time, they do not even know what is on. But they are desperate for the sound of another human voice in their lives
From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have to be stupid to marry the wrong man.
Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her.
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