Bringers
of the
Light
By Neale Donald Walsch
Author of Conversations with God
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10  9  8  7  6  5  4  3  2  1In memory of
Francis H. Treon
a Futzu (Master) in Gohn Dagow
(a classical, southern Chinese, soft,
monk form of self development),
who devoted his life to being a
Bringer of the Light.The world needs your
Light now. Not tomorrow. Now. Of course, you know this. That’s why you’ve found
your way to this book. This book will tell you how to shine your Light. It’s a very simple book, about a very simple process.Yet the process, though simple, may not seem easy. So listen. Watch. Pay attention. Listen to what this book has to say. Watch the
results in your life. And pay attention to how it’s all
falling together. It is falling together, you know. It may not look
like it, but it is. Usually when your life looks like it’s
falling apart, it’s really falling together. Often, for
the first time. There’s a reason for that. It has to do with a very
sound metaphysical principle. Briefly stated:As soon as you decide Who and What You Are,
everything unlike it will come into the space. Life has no choice but to show up this way, and so
you can expect it as sure as you’re reading this. It is important to understand this principle if you
are going to be a Bringer of the Light. It is a principle
you must understand, or you cannot hope to under-
take this work. However, before exploring this principle, you
should be thanked. You should be thanked for be-ing the kind of person who would want to read this
book. You don’t know how much that means to the
world right now. Unless you do. There’s a lot of pain out there. There’s a lot of
darkness. The world needs your Light right now. It really does. So...glad you could show up. Now the fun starts. Now the challenge gets underway in earnest. Now2Bringers of the LightNeale Donald Walsch 3
the healing begins. With you as the Healer.That’s what you’re here for, as if you didn’t know. That’s why you came to the Earth, in this body, in
this time and in this place. A Course in Miracles  puts it very directly:
You are in the room to heal the room. You are in the space to heal the space. There is no other reason for you to be here.All the information in this book falls into one of
two categories: Principles and Steps . There are five
of each. That is, Five Steps  toward becoming a
Bringer of the Light,  and Five Principles  which may
be used to better guide those steps. One of these Principles has just been stated. It
will be necessary to understand each of the Five Prin-
ciples in order to take the Steps necessary to be what
you now declare that you wish to be. This book will be woven like a tapestry, with the
Principles intertwined into a text describing the
Steps, so that you will clearly see the relationship
between the two.4Bringers of the LightLet us look, then, at the first Step in your
process of becoming a Bringer of the Light
If you’re like most people, you may not have given
Life Purpose much thought in your earlier years. As
a result, you may have spent a great deal of time do-
ing things which at the end of your life will not mat-ter; will mean nothing. Not to you, not to anyone. What you really have to do if you want to get on the
fast track of evolution is to put each golden momentof Life to its highest and best use. You cannot know
what that is unless and until you decide on a
Bringers Step 1
Get clear about the
purpose of your life. Neale Donald Walsch 5Purpose. That is, you cannot decide how to get where
you are going until you decide  where  you are going. One day a man stopped his car at the corner of a
friendly street in a friendly town and motioned to a
friendly person standing nearby. “Excuse me,” the driver said, “but I seem to be
lost. Could you kindly give me directions?”
“Certainly, sir,” said the person on the street. “Where are you trying to go?”
“I don’t know,” the driver answered. “Well, sir,” said the person who was trying to help him,
“You must first tell me where you want to go before I cantell you how to get there.”
If your life is directionless, it is because you have
not set a direction. If your life is without accom-
plishment, it is because you do not know what you
are seeking to accomplish. If your life has seemedpointless, it is because you have not sought to use it
as a tool with which to make  a point. Which brings us to Principle #1: Life is pointless.6Bringers of the LightNeale Donald Walsch 7
Principle  #1
Life
is pointless...
and that is
God’s Greatest Gift.8Bringers of the Light
This may come as a shock to many of you who
think that there is a point to life, and that it
is our job to find it, to uncover it, to learn it, to un-
ravel it, to somehow, someday, somewhere discover
it — and then live up to it. It may come as a shock also to many others of you
who think that you have already  discovered the Point
of Life, and are living up to it. (Most people who fall
into this category haven’t really “discovered” the
Point of Life, they’ve been told what the Point of Life
is, and they’ve accepted that.) Yet there is no Point to it all. Life has no point. If
Life had a Point, who would assign it one? And if
you say God, why would God create the Point, thenmake us all search for it for 50 years? (And, as a
society, for 50 thousand  years.) And if you say God
does not make us search, but has given us the an-swer, why did God not give us the answer in a way in
which we could easily understand it, and with a for-
mula upon which we could all agree? And if you saythat God has done that, then you have not looked atNeale Donald Walsch 9
the world lately. No, God has not done that. And the reason God
has not told us what the Point of Life is, is that thereis no Point to Life. Life is pointless. And that is God’s greatest gift. Think about it.It is precisely because God has not emblazoned
His purpose across the pages of Life that Life itself is
an Open Book. A book that we get to write. We get
to decide what purpose we choose. If God had chosen a purpose — if God had a pur-
pose designed into the plan — would God not tell uswhat that purpose was? Would God allow us to spend
years, decades, centuries , searching, searching, search-
ing for the point of it all? Again, it must be said to those of you who are
now thinking, “But God did announce the purpose
of life!”: if that is so, God did a pretty bad job of it,because if you look around you, you will see that no
one got it. Okay, a few. A few think they have gotten it. They10Bringers of the Light
know the purpose of life, and it’s just all the rest of
the people who don’t understand. Well, that, of course, is the stance taken by many
of the Earth’s major religions! These religions teach
that they know the purpose of life. There is even a
religion or two which says it is the purpose of life,
and that all we have to do is follow the dictates of
that particular religion and we will have pleased God
mightily — and be saved. On the other hand, if we do not follow the dic-
tates of that particular religion, we will be sent to
the everlasting fires of hell. None of this would be such a problem if it weren’t
for the fact that there are hundreds of organized re-
ligions making essentially the same claim. Could God have really botched the job this badly? If God really established a purpose for Life, and re-
ally wanted us to know what that was, do you sup-pose this is the best God could do when it comes to
communicating that to us in a way we could all un-
derstand?Neale Donald Walsch 11
Or is it possible that the reason we can’t seem to
agree on the point of it all is that there simply is no
point? In fact, that is exactly the case. Yet this may be
difficult to accept for many people until it becomes
clear why there is no point. There is no point because God wants us to create  a
purpose for our life. And if God had already cre-
ated that purpose, He would have robbed us of the
greatest opportunity, and the greatest tool, that wehave as we seek to perform the function  of life. Because, you see, while Life does not have a pur-
pose, it does have a function. Purpose  and function  are not at all the same thing. A clock functions  by ticking, for the purpose  of telling
time. A car functions  by internal combustion, for the
purpose  of moving people from place to place. A
microwave oven functions by causing food molecules
to vibrate very fast, for the purpose of heating food. Life functions in a particular way, but for no prede-
termined purpose . That’s because God created as the12Bringers of the Light
function of Life the determining  of a purpose. Put
another way:
God, you see, is in the constant process of creat-
ing and recreating Itself anew. God is in each mo-ment deciding what God is going to be next. This is
God’s most exciting function. (In fact, it is God’s
only function.) This is pure creation. (For a better, and complete, understanding of this
Truth, see Conversations with God - Book One (Putnam
Publishing Company, New York City, NY) .Your function
is to create the
point of your life. In so doing, you create Your Self. You decide
who and what you really are —
and who you are going to be. Neale Donald Walsch 13
This principle is presented here so that you may
understand that God has not assigned  a purpose or a
point to your life. God is waiting for you to do that. It is you who must create a raison d’etre. And that is
what you have not yet done. You have not created a
reason for being.14Bringers of the Light
So Step 1  here is to decide and to declare  what life
is all about — for you. What is the purpose of
your life? If you can’t answer that question,  go to a
larger one: What is the Purpose of Life in general? Now... and here’s the tricky part...  do not look any-
where else for an answer. Just sit down and decide this
for yourself. Don’t ask yourself...  tell yourself! Tell yourself the purpose of Life in General, and
then tell yourself what your purpose in life is going
to be. Now your first reaction to this suggestion may very
likely be a feeling of “overwhelm”...   as in “I’m on
overwhelm. ”
You may think that the subject is just too big; that
the topic is outside the sphere of your understand-
ing. It is not. And you will see that it is not themoment you give yourself permission to truly start
thinking about this. Truly start thinking about the real purpose of life
and all sorts of ideas will begin to come to you. They
will crowd in on you so fast, you won’t know whatNeale Donald Walsch 15
hit you. Soon, if you stay with the process, you’ll start
discriminating. That is, your mind will start throw-
ing out the absurd ideas and will quickly find itselfleft with only a few good ones. And just as soon as it
reduces the list to those few, it will reduce the list
even further. Left to your own devices, you will comeup with what you think the purpose of life might be
before you know it. That is to say, you will know it before you know it. In truth, there is a great deal that you know that
you do not know that you know. You are carrying
around knowledge you do not know that you have.Or, to put this another way, you don’t know the half of
what you know. The only way to find out what you know is to  call
upon yourself to know it. That is a mouthful right there, and you may want
to go over that statement again. ‘The only way to find out what you know is to call
upon yourself to know it.’
The problem will not be in your not knowing the16Bringers of the Light
purpose of Life, the problem will be in your believing
that you know it. In other words, it will be easier deciding for your-
self what the purpose of Life is than it will be toagree with yourself that your answer could be cor-
rect! The reason for this is that you still think that there
is a “correct answer” — and if there is, you couldn’t
possibly have just guessed it! Yet there is no “correct answer!”The function of your life is to give the question an
answer  — and the answer that you give to the ques-
tion is the “correct answer.”
Yes... God has given you that much authority. Yes...God has given you that much freedom. Yes...God has given you that much power to create. You do not believe this, and so you have spent
years trying to figure out the Purpose of Life. And
all the while, Life (God) has been waiting for you to
decide  Its purpose.Neale Donald Walsch 17
For now, don’t try to understand this whole
process, or the why’s and wherefore’s of it. For
now, just follow instructions. It’ll all become more
clear to you later. This book is about how to be-come a Bringer of the Light. It is not about explaining
the metaphysics of the entire universe. Because of
its limited scope, this book requires that you takesome statements on faith and simply follow instruc-
tions. The instruction is:
Get clear about the
purpose of your life. So do that now. Right now, write out the Pur-
pose of your Life. Make a Statement of Purpose.As suggested earlier, if you have to start with a
larger statement, do so. Complete the following sen-
tence:The purpose of  life in general is...
_________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
Then complete a second sentence:
The purpose of My Life is...
_________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
Have you done that? Good. Now you can go on. What? Not finished yet? Stuck? Can’t seem to
do it? Re-read Conversations with God. Take notes
this time. Then, re-read the first pages of this book. Take more notes if you have to. Look deeply at what
you don’t seem to understand. Or, if you have un-derstanding, but just can’t seem to bring yourself to18Bringers of the Lightdo it, look deeply at what you cannot allow yourself
to do. This is a process in itself, which will be very valu-
able to you. When you feel you can clearly state the purpose
of life in general, and the purpose of your life in
particular, move on. Neale Donald Walsch 1920Bringers of the Light
Some of you may have already done this –  or may
have started  with a statement of Beingness. If you
have, go right to Step 3. For those of you who have not made this transla-
tion, or don’t even know what is being talked about
here, read on. To be a Bringer of the Light  one must understand
the difference between “doing,” and “being,” and
between “doingness” and “beingness.”
Bringers Step 2
T ranslate your purpose
from Doingness
to Beingness.Neale Donald Walsch 21
Right Livelihood is seldom attained through a
doingness decision . . . although it may involve  a
doingness function  somewhere along the way. Right Livelihood is easily attained through a
beingness decision . . . which leads to a doingness
function somewhere along the way. To move into Right Livelihood, one must decide
what one wishes to BE, not what one wishes to DO. Doingness must spring from Beingness, not the otherway around. To understand the difference between these two
life experiences, explore Principle #2. “Doingness”
is a function of the body,
“Beingness”
is a function of the soul.22Bringers of the LightNeale Donald Walsch 23
Principle  #2
You are a
Human Being
not a
Human Doing.24Bringers of the Light
It is true that every minute of your life your body
is doing something. Yet it is doing something
for a reason. Everything you have willfully causedyour body to do, you have caused it to do because
there is some state of being you wish to achieve . . . and you know no other way to achieve it. Think about this a minute. Your body goes through the motions of eating –
you cause it to eat; you make it “do” that – becauseyou want it to be nourished. You are seeking to be
the thing called healthy. You sleep because you are trying to be the thing
called rested –  which you know leads to the same
thing as above . . . namely, healthy. You sit because you are trying to be the thing called
comfortable. You stand because you are trying to more
of the thing called mobile. You talk because you are try-
ing to be the thing called understood. You listen because
you are trying to be the thing called understanding. The list goes on and on, but it never changes. Al-
ways it points through the thing called Doing, to aNeale Donald Walsch 25
thing called Being. Everything you willfully cause your body to do, it
does in order to assist you in achieving a state of Be-
ing. Do the following exercise. In the chart, make a
list of things your body has done recently, then indi-
cate the Beingness  you were seeking to achieve. We’ve started the list for you, to give you an ex-
ample of how to complete the entries. This is an excellent exercise to help you define
and clarify the motives behind all of your actions. Doingness                Beingness I wish to achieve
Reading this Book Wisdom, clarity, understanding
Writing the author Sharing, connecting, expressing
Cleaning the dishesFill this in yourself26Bringers of the Light
Now it is true that there are some things your
body does which you do not willfully cause
it to do. When your body does one of these things,it is doing it automatically, not willfully. The body’s
automatic responses are reflections or announce-
ments of a State of Beingness which has already beenattained, rather than attempts to attain one. Did you follow that? Are you clear about this? Let’s look at some examples. When you laugh, that is an automatic  response to
a State of Beingness which has already been attained,
called happy, joyful — or, in some cases, nervous. When you cry, that is an automatic response to a
State of Beingness which has already been attained,
called sad, sorrowful —  or, in some cases, happy. When your heart rate increases wildly, that is an
automatic response to a State of Beingness which
has already been attained, called excited — or, in some
cases, scared. When your heart rate decreases, producing a  slow
and steady pulse, that is an automatic response to aNeale Donald Walsch 27
In both cases it is the mind which is causing the
body, signaling the body, to “do” what it is “doing”
— and it is the mind which thinks that “doingness”
is the only way to achieve “beingness.”
If you are still unclear about the automatic  vs. will-
ful paradigm, talk to any actor about it. For an actor, being told to “laugh out loud,” or to
“begin to cry on that line,” can be a nightmare ...un-
less the actor has learned to be the thing that creates
the automatic response  the director requires. Yes, there are so-called “technical” actors who can
produce the bodily action on command... but in
more recent years it has been the “method” actors —actors such as Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino, MerylState of Beingness which has already been attained,
called peaceful, serene. So we see that  Automatic Doingness Functions of the
body are used by the mind to reflect  a Beingness State,
while Willful Doingness Functions are used by the mind
to achieve  a Beingness State.28Bringers of the Light
Streep — who have gained the widest respect. Many
say their acting seems somehow more “real.”  That is
because they are not “acting like.”  They are being. In “method acting” the actor thinks of a thing, or
remembers a time, which produced the same emotional
response in the past as the one now called for by the
script. By this device the actor’s mind tricks the body,causing it to cry, or to smile, or even to break into
gales of laughter. When the mind sends the body a
signal, the body doesn’t know whether what the mindis experiencing is “real,” or only a memory. To the
body, it is all the same. That is why the body’s heart rate will increase, and
the body itself may even break out in a cold sweat, at
the memory of a beautiful woman, or a wonderful
man, and a passionately romantic time. Nothing ishappening in the present moment, but the body
doesn’t know that. It receives precisely the same sig-
nals from the brain as it did when the adventure wasfirst experienced. Fear can likewise be recreated with a memory,Neale Donald Walsch 29
which in turn produces bodily responses exactly as
if the experience was occurring all over again. To repeat, then:  the mind can “tell” the body to
“do” things for two different reasons. It can tell the
body to “do” something in order to achieve a State of
Being (this is called a Willful Action), or it can tell
the body to “do” something in order to demonstrate
the State of Being it has already achieved (this is called
an Automatic Response). In any event, you are always being something. And
your body is always demonstrating what you are be-ing. Sometimes the demonstration is very subtle,
and sometimes it is not, but the demonstration never
ends. Your body is a living
demonstration of the
state of beingness
in which your soul resides.30Bringers of the Light
Returning now to Step 2 , what you are asked to
do is take a look at the declaration you came up with
in Step 1  when asked to declare your Life Purpose. Is the declaration a statement of   “beingness” or a
statement of “doingness”? If it is a statement of “doingness,” Step 2 now
asks you to translate that into a Statement of Beingness. Use the chart on page 22 as a guide. The reason you are asked to do this is that only
when your Doing flows out of your place of Being, an-
nouncing it rather than seeking to create it, can you ever
be centered enough to become a Bringer of the Light. Most of the world has this “being/doing” para-
digm backwards. People are running around every-
where doing, doing, doing, and hoping by this de-vice to one day achieve a state of beingness (“happy,”
“peaceful,” “abundant,” “enlightened”...whatever)
that will make it all worthwhile. The sad thing about all this is that for most people,
it doesn’t work out that way. They spend their whole
life doing this and doing that, doing this and doingNeale Donald Walsch 31
that, and all they wind up with is a great big pile of
“do-do.”
So complete Step 2  now, if you haven’t already
done so. Take any doingness statement which mayhave found itself into your declaration of Life Pur-
pose and translate it into a beingness description. Then...move on.32Bringers of the Light
Bringers Step 3
Adopt right now
the state of being
you have described,
no matter what you are doing
Okay, you’ve moved through the first two steps
toward Right Livelihood and toward becom-
ing a Bringer of the Light . A person in “right livelihood,” by the way, is a
Bringer of the Light. That is because all people in right
livelihood are being who they really are ...and Who You
Really Are is the very Light you are seeking to bring! Did you get that? Did you hear that? There is no
brighter Light in the Universe than the Light of your
Beingness. Therefore, let your light so shine beforeNeale Donald Walsch 33
men, that they may see your good works, and glorify
your Father which is in heaven. For He said unto them, “Is a candle brought to be put
under a bushel, or under a bed, and not to be set on a
candlestick? Neither do men light a candle, and put itunder a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light
unto all that are in the house.”
Remember, you are in the room to heal the room. You are in the space to heal the space. You are in
the house to heal the house... to “giveth light untoall that are in the house.”
There is no other reason for you to be there. How do you shine the Light of your Being? By first moving into Right Livelihood –
which means by not allowing yourself to do anything
for a living which violates your deepest inner senseof Who You Are.34Bringers of the Light
You don’t have to take any precipitous action in
this regard however. For when you adopt and fol-
low Step 3 in the process which is being outlined
here, you will find yourself automatically  moving away
from “wrong livelihood.”  It will happen in just the
right way, at just the right time. You may even findthat you have caused yourself to be fired  from a job
which you should never have had, or at which you
should never have remained. This will all look likethe boss’ doing if you are not careful, and only when
you have the most discerning eye will you be able to
see that you brought it all on yourself (usually...evenif subconsciously...quite deliberately). So don’t go out now and just quit your job. That’s
not what this book recommends, and that’s not whatthis process is all about. Yet do not be surprised if, as a result of the pro-
cess of moving towards Beingness  that you have under-
taken, you discover a few weeks or months from now
that you are no longer engaged in the work which
currently fills your days.Neale Donald Walsch 35
Step 3 often produces such a quantum shift in
people’s experience. That is because Step 3 is in
itself a quantum movement. It is a movement fromfocus upon what you are doing  to what you are being. Let’s try a little experiment in that focus shift right
now. At this very moment, you are reading a bookyou are holding in your hand. That is what you are
doing. If someone called you right now and said,
“What’cha up to?” you’d say, “Oh, I’m just readingthis neat little book.”  You’d answer that way because
most of the time you are thinking about  what you
are doing. You look to see what your body is involved
You are one of the
courageous ones:
someone who has chosen to
make  a life,
rather than a living.It is in this moment that you will discover:36Bringers of the Light
Good. That’s very good. You’re getting the idea. That clarity about what’s going on with you comes
only when you focus on what you are being, righthere, right now. Now, what we notice is that your present state of
Beingness may not seem to be one that you pre-in, and that is how you answer the question. It is
quite natural, given how you have focused your life. But now, focus on what you are being. Right now,
this moment. What are you being? Close your eyes
and stay with the question. Good. Now complete the following sentence:Right now I am being...
__________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________________Neale Donald Walsch 37
selected. That is, you may experience that the
beingness you described in the completed sentence
just above is a beingness which was induced , if you
will, by your reading this book. We often see our States of Being that way. We
imagine them to be induced, or caused, by our exte-rior experience. Yet look now at Principle #3.38Bringers of the LightNeale Donald Walsch 39
Principle  #3
Everything
you are being,
you are being because
you choose to be.40Bringers of the Light
If, at any given moment, you are being afraid, it
is because you choose to be. If you are being
joyful, it is because you choose to be. If you are be-ing annoyed, it is because you choose to be. If you
are being harassed, it is because you choose to be. If you are being loved, it is because you choose to
be. If you are being ignored, it is because you choose
to be. If you are being helped, it is because you choose
to be. If you are being hurt, it is because you chooseto be. If you are being wise, it is because you choose
to be. If you are feeling wronged, it is because you choose
to be. This list could go on forever. Indeed...it actually does.Neale Donald Walsch 41
Understand that beingness  is a State in which
one is, not an action which one takes. You cannot do “happy,” you can only be “happy,”
depending upon what you decide  to be. You cannot do “sad.”  You cannot do “afraid.”  You
cannot do “wronged,” or “hurt,” or “annoyed.”   You
can only be these things. And what causes you to be them? Many people
believe it is what is going on around them; that it’swhat someone or something else is doing. Yet it is
not. It is your decision  about what someone else is
doing which causes that. It is the choice you make. The complexity surrounding this whole business is
this: so many of the choices you are making are now so
automatic, so deeply based in prior experience, thatthey seem to be noncontrollable by you. And so it looks
as if  the actions of others, or  experiences exterior to
you, are causing the response within you. Yet the truth is, you are choosing to be in the State
in which you find yourself. And the only difference
between you and those who have mastered this life42Bringers of the Light
is that Masters choose differently. (For a far more detailed exploration of this subject,
see Conversations with God  - Book One .) The point to be made here is that beingness  is cho-
sen, not induced. You chose to be whatever you wrote
on page 44. Why you chose it is another matter –
the subject for another whole book. Yet this much
we know: the choice was not forced. Choices mayoften seem forced, but they never are. You can produce a State of Being by simply select-
ing one. And you can do this anytime, anywhere. A State of Being is a feeling, not an action. Yet
you can undertake to feel a certain way. That is, you
have the power to decide how you’re going to feel , and
how you feel right now. This is the great secret of the human encounter. This is the great gift, and the great tool. And withthis tool all the Universe is opened unto you, and all
the freedom you could ever want to be and to expe-
rience Who You Really Are is granted you. This is the Truth; the Truth which shall set you free.Neale Donald Walsch 43
You need to at least accept this Principle as a
possibility in order to make it work. When
you can accept it as a possibility, go back to Step 3 . Choose to move into the State of Beingness you have
described in Step 2 , and choose to be that , no matter
what you are “doing.”
This is the formula through which people move
into Right Livelihood. It is, to use the title from awonderful book by Terry Cole-Whittaker, The Inner
Path from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be. So choose now that State of Beingness you wish
to experience in, as, and through you. Then be that. How? It is a matter of focus. It has to do with what
you focus your attention upon. Let’s try one State of Being, just for an example. Let’s pick... peacefulness. Let us say, just for the pur-
pose of this exercise, that you wish and choose toexperience yourself in a State of Peacefulness at all
times, everywhere. Good. Now concentrate on that for a minute. Get in touch with that. See what that feels like. Put44Bringers of the Light
the book down, relax for just a minute, and go to
that place right now. Good. Now choose to be that...choose to be
peace ...every minute of every hour for the rest of this
day. Do you think you can be that? You can if you
stick to your commitment. Because if you stick to your
commitment, and remain focused on your Purpose
(to be “peace” ), what you will find is that your body
automatically does things  to assist you and to allow you
to experience that beingness. One thing your body will do is bring you into con-
tact with, or cause you to notice, everything unlikewhat you now choose. (Principle 4, in the next sec-
tion, will explain why.) Then your body will lead you
to peace , and lead you away from  that which is not
peaceful. It will no longer find it comfortable or
possible to do otherwise, so will perform all manner
of tricks. It will move out of noisy rooms, for instance. And
it will choose to forget about the evening news to-
night on TV. It will suddenly find certain musicNeale Donald Walsch 45
unacceptable. It will even perform more subtle tricks. It may find a way to block out the traffic sounds on
your drive home after a long day at work, or mute
the normally ear-piercing shrieks of  boisterous chil-dren in the back seat as you head to the supermar-
ket. It may choose to ignore what could be other-
wise oppressive heat, or to experience as “unevent-ful” the previously painful encounters at the dentist’s
office. You have all learned about mind over matter in
this way. You have all “forgotten” about a headache,
or “ignored” a momentary frustration, in favor of a
larger or more important experience you chose tohave. This process we are calling Step 3 is not differ-
ent from that. It is a process you have used over and over
again in your life. What is remarkable about it is not
that you have used it before, but that you do not
think you can use it whenever you wish.46Bringers of the Light
Now, as stated earlier, the degree to which your
body begins to automatically do things
which allow you to remain in a State of Being de-
pends on the degree of commitment and determi-
nation you  demonstrate. We have all seen how this process works in smaller
ways in everyday life. If you are determined  to “be” a
thing — whether it’s the thing called “peaceful” orthe thing called “joyful” or the thing called “success-
ful” — nothing in the world can stop you. That is also true if you are determined to be the
thing called “depressed,” or “upset,” or “unable,”
Nothing, nothing, in the world can stop you. Ever try to enliven a person who is determined to
be sad? You can just forget it. You’re wasting your
time. The same is true of a person who is determined to be at
peace. So if you determine to “be” a certain thing (that
is, to express, experience and fulfill a State ofBeingness upon which you have decided), and if youNeale Donald Walsch 47
stick with your decision  no matter what the appearance
of things, your body will sooner or later find itselfautomatically  doing things  which tend to enhance the
possibility of producing that beingness in your expe-
rience. Before long, your mind will also join the action. You are, after all, a three-part being — Body, Mind
and Spirit — and all three aspects of your being willsoon be engaged if you make, and stick with, a
Beingness Decision . That is because Beingness
Decisions are triggers which fire reactors in every fi-ber of your being, at every level of your functioning. They are the keys which start the engine of Creation. This explains why, once a Beingness Decision is
made, you will begin to automatically eliminate from
your life everything unlike what you seek to be. This
you will do on an almost subconscious level. That isto say, you may not even be aware that you are doing it. Your concerned family, friends and co-workers may
even say, “Are you sure you know what you’re do-ing?”  You won’t be able to answer them, because, in48Bringers of the Light
truth, you may not be sure. You have allowed, in a sense, your automatic func-
tions to take over. These include your instincts, your
responses, your inner discernment. This is what
happens when you “let go and let God.”  You mayfind yourself reaching for that cigarette, and then
suddenly putting it down for no reason...never to
pick one up again. Or calling some friends, andplacing the receiver back on the hook, never to hang
out with those people again. Or going to work, but
turning around and coming back home, never to goback to that place again. Something inside of you
will just tell you, “no more.”  Some intuitive mes-
senger will simply say, very quietly, “It’s time to quit.It’s time to move on. It’s time to change.”  And all
the fear, all the anxiety you may have had around
that will suddenly be gone. So don’t be surprised — if you stay focused  on the
State of Beingness you select — to find after a matter
of days, weeks or months that you have simply easedout of certain friendships, and “gravitated” towardsNeale Donald Walsch 49
others; eased out of certain physical environments,
and gravitated towards others; eased out, yes, even
of your job, and gravitated toward other ways of
“making a living.”  Sooner or later you will stop “mak-ing a living” altogether...and will spend all of your
time making a  life. This is the movement which will take you towards
Right Livelihood. This is the process by which you
will create and express your True Self. You will discover, if you trust this process, that
you can adopt a State of Beingness (and more than
one state if you wish), and move into the experience
of that. And you will discover that your state of in-
ner Being will, and should, have nothing to do withthe state of your outer experience. Dentist’s chair or noisy kids in the car, none of it
will make any difference. The exterior circumstancesof your life will no longer control and create the in-
terior experiences of your Soul. You will easily and effortlessly move away from
and eliminate those exterior conditions which you50Bringers of the Light
wish to eliminate, and hang on to those you wish to
retain (regardless of how “disruptive” they used to
be, for you will no longer find them “disruptive”),
and thus recreate yourself anew  in the image and like-
ness of Who You Really Are. Still, there are some things you should know about
this process you are being asked to trust.Neale Donald Walsch 51
Bringers Step 4
Observe Opposition
and call it Opportunity
The first thing you need to know is that there
will be opposition. Opposition in the form
of people, events and circumstances which will seem
to create a barrier to everything you say you are; ev-
erything you declare yourself to be. As a matter of fact, not only will there be opposi-
tion — but the opposition will increase. It will be
greater than it ever was before. So if you thoughtyou had problems before, hold onto your hat, be-
cause, in the words of the inimitable Jimmy Durante,
“You ain’t seen nuttin’ yet.”
(If you haven’t the foggiest notion who Jimmy
Durante is, move two spaces back and lose a turn;do not pass GO, do not collect $200.) The fact that “things are going to get worse before
they get better” may not be the most exciting news
you’ve heard since picking up this book. Still, youmust be told — and when you understand why this
is so, you will actually rejoice should things take a
downward turn. It all has to do with Principle #4:52Bringers of the LightNeale Donald Walsch 53
Principle #4
As soon as you decide
who and what you are,
everything unlike it will
come into the space.This is how it is, and this is how it must be. But now, try to understand why. To grasp what you are about to be told, you have
to see clearly the Truth about Opposites. The Truth
about Opposites is that they don’t exist , except in the
space of each other . That is to say, “hot” does not exist except in an
environment or space in which there is “cold.”  “Tall”does not exist except in the space of that which is
“short.”  “Fast” cannot even be a concept unless and
until there is a thing called “slow.”
In the World of the Relative (which is, by the way,
the world in which you have chosen to spend most
of your time), a thing is only what it IS relative toANOTHER thing that it is NOT. Do you understand? That may sound a bit con-
fusing, but do you get it? You should hear that as anenormous Truth ringing in your ears. It’s just another way of saying that in our present
state of existence, everything is relative. Yet the principle, applied to metaphysics, yields54Bringers of the Lightsome very interesting insights. For if a thing is noth-
ing except in the space of that which it is not, then
YOU cannot be ANYTHING except in the space of
that which YOU are not. And so the opposite of what you wish to “be” will
appear almost as soon as your wish to “be” it is heard. Indeed, your Soul draws these conditions to itself.And God will give the Soul everything it calls forth,
as the Greatest Gift of the Grandest Creator, in or-
der that the Soul may fulfill Itself in this, Its highestdesire. Thus will the Soul thank God for those treasures
which are called the Conditions and Events of Life,and thus will the Soul welcome all of Life’s experi-
ences, honoring them equally, the “good” and the
“bad,” without judgment. If you feel that you understand the concept em-
bodied in this basic principle of life, go back now to
what was said in Step 4. We said, “Not only will there be opposition — but
the opposition will increase. It will be greater than it
Neale Donald Walsch 55ever was before.”  We also said, “when you under-
stand why this is so, you will actually rejoice should
things take a downward turn.”
The reason you will rejoice is that you will know
— for you will see “opposition” as a sure and certain
sign — that you are on the journey of transforma-
tion; the road to glory; the higher path. It is now important for you to also know that  in a
very real  metaphysical sense, there is “a light at the
end of the tunnel.”  The appearance and the effectof these negative opposites we have talked about is
but temporary, and their purpose is to heal forever
any negative feeling you have had about the outer
experiences of your life. Here is how this healing occurs. Let’s use Peace once again as our example. Let’s
say that you are a parent, and you have made the
declaration, “I am Peace. ”  Now the moment you
make that declaration, everything unlike  “peace” will
come into your experience. And so the kids will
start making noise — more noise than ever before!56Bringers of the LightYet now you will be at choice in responding to this,
for now you will know and understand  why this is hap-
pening. You may choose to see this “opposite” as a gift
bearer , bringing you a chance to experience and ex-
press peace, or as a thief, stealing your peace from you. Let’s assume you choose to be peace. With this
commitment and focus, you do not respond in the
old way; you do not become just as noisy and cha-
otic as the kids, raising your voice and demandingthat they quiet down. You simply, peacefully and
calmly, move through the moment. Before you know it, the kids may actually calm
down themselves, having picked up your energy. Even if they do not, it will not matter. You have
mastered the moment. You have changed the expe-rience. Staying with this focus in the days and weeks
which follow will show the children that becoming
noisy is no longer a way of getting attention. In fact,they see just the opposite. This will produce a great
awakening — in both you and your children.Neale Donald Walsch 57The next thing that you will notice is that more
peacefulness prevails. So will it be in every area of your life. Whatever
you choose to “be,” its opposite number will appear
(or it will become more apparent that it was always
there!). Then, as you heal the illusion that this“opposite” is who you are, and move with determined
focus into the continued and ever larger expression
of Who You Really  Are, that which opposed you no
longer has any effect; you have rendered it null and
void. And, as with all Masters, never again will you con-
demn that which others call evil, for you will know
that what you resist persists , and what you look at
disappears . That is,  it ceases to hold its present
form, it ceases to produce its present effect. And you will be surrounded by the darkness, yet
curse it not. And then you, as with all Masters, willbecome a Bringer of the Light.58Bringers of the LightRecreating Step 5
Allow form to
create itself. We come now finally to the question of Form. What form shall your service take? What
will being a Bringer of the Light  “look like”? There are two ways to go about turning your heart’s
deepest desire into physical form. You may seek tomake your desires fit into a predetermined form, or
you may allow the form to create itself. It is strongly suggested that the latter course be taken.When we insist that our desires be made manifest
in a particular form, we, in effect, limit God. Yet
when we leave every option open, we make a spacefor marvelous creation.Neale Donald Walsch 59One of the first questions asked by people who
wish to serve o thers is, “What can I do to be a Bringer of
the Light?”  That should be the last question people ask. Move first toward the State of Beingness in which
a Bringer of the Light   resides, then allow the
“doingness” of your life to flow from that. What is that State of Beingness? It is whatever
you imagine it to be. You get to choose. You get to
decide. What is the Light you wish to share; that you wish
to bring to, and call forth in, others? If you could
give it a name, what would that be? There is something burning inside of you which
you know would, if ever fully released and fully ex-
pressed, make the lives of others better. What is that? What does that feel like? Remember, it is not something you would be do-
ing. It is something you would be being. Is it loving? Caring? Healing? You can be more
of that no matter what you are doing. Yet the magic of it is, the more of that you are60Bringers of the Lightbeing, the more what you are doing  will fall perfectly
into place to allow you to “be” even more of that! Trust this process. It works. You will discover that forms — physical ways to
“be” a thing — will suddenly start to just “show up.”
Perhaps just one example here might make what
we are trying to say a bit more clear. A man once decided that he wanted to “be” the
thing called “healing.”  This was a State of Being
which he felt deeply within his soul, and he wishedto express that. Now he couldn’t find a “job” out there in the so-
called “real world” which allowed him to “do that.”He looked in the want ads, but he didn’t see  many
Help Wanted ads which said, “Major national cor-
poration looking for healer,” or, “Local companyseeks healer for great entrance level position.”
Discouraged, but undaunted, he decided to open
his own business; start his own “practice.”  Still, hehad no form, no mold, into which to pour the mak-
ings of his desire. So he created a form. He wouldNeale Donald Walsch 6162Bringers of the Light
be, he decided, a “crystal healer.”  Or maybe a “mas-
sage therapist.”  Or perhaps a “psycho-spiritual coun-selor.”  Or a “new age minister” for a church of his
own devise. He created a form which felt like it might work,
and opened for business. And all was fine. Except
hardly anyone came. And the few who did come
didn’t get the value, so left him with little or noth-ing. And he didn’t feel “right” asking a fee, because,
after all, he had just made the whole game up , quite
literally , and he felt ashamed and embarrassed — if
not to say, a bit guilty — to ask for or require what he
felt he did not deserve. So he starved to death. Not literally, of course. But figuratively, yes. His life by this time had turned
to Jell-o. His partner left him, pronouncing him
“crazy” as a result of this “midlife crisis” throughwhich he was apparently moving. His old friends,
too, thought he had flipped. And where once he
had been really quite capable of taking care of him-self, now he was living on the county, or taking gov-Neale Donald Walsch 63
ernment welfare in some other form, or, at best,
barely eking by — but he was willing to make the
sacrifice, because, after all, he was “doing what hewanted to do.”
On his best days he could even justify  the present
state of his existence with that pronouncement. Still,something deep inside him told him there was a “lie”
somewhere; an untruth. A formula he didn’t know,
a secret nobody told him. It shouldn’t be this diffi-cult to serve God or man, he told himself, some-
times bitterly. It shouldn’t be this hard. It isn’t.The secret is, do not force the form. Allow the Form
to create itself. This brings us to Principle #5:64Bringers of the LightNeale Donald Walsch 65
Principle #5
Beingness
becomes
form.66Bringers of the Light
It is a fact of the Universe that you are a Being
in formation. You do not need to bring any
other “information” except what you are to the pro-
cess of Life in order for What You Are to be made
manifest in Form. You merely need to allow theprocess of “formation” to take place in its own way,
in its own time. And what is “its own way”? That is what this
book has been explaining. Let’s summarize it here. The way Beingness becomes Form is, first,
through self conception. That is, the Being con-ceives of what it wishes to “be” next (Steps 1 & 2) . It then moves into that State of Being immediately,
regardless of external conditions or circumstances(Step 3) , or indeed, in response to them (Step 4) . Fi-
nally, it shapes  itself around its own self concept,
producing ways to experience in form  that which it
has been experiencing in formlessness. Until all five steps are completed, you will find
yourself uninformed. That is, you will not knowWho You Are. You do not have enough in-forma-Neale Donald Walsch 67
tion. When enough of You  is in formation , you will
know and experience Who You Are in physical form . This is another way of saying that your Outer Life
will begin to reflect your Inner Reality about Who
You Are, and Who You Choose to Be. Remember, it all starts with a State of Being, which
you choose independently. It can be quite an arbi-
trary choice; a State of Being you select simply be-
cause you prefer it or desire it. Yet that selectionmust be made before you can get anywhere. So choose your life purpose, and let that life pur-
pose be to achieve a state, or states, of “being.”  Thenmove into that State of Being no matter what. Watch
as your body moves away from that which you are
not. And do not resist that which opposes you. Sim-ply stay centered in your Being by staying in the cen-
ter of your Being, and watch the miracle. Being will produce  Form, sooner or later. It has no
choice, for that is what Beingness becomes . It is the
function of Beingess to produce Form. That is what
God does. Or, more correctly, that is what God is.68Bringers of the Light
Now, let’s see if there is a way to apply this
wisdom to the fictional man in our example,
as we return to Step 5. Let’s say that this man did not spend any time or
energy trying to put his Being into Form, but rather,
allowed Form to create itself, out of his place of Being. If he had done that, he would have simply moved
into the place of Being in which he wished to reside,
and remained there, stayed there, no matter what
was going on — even if what was going on seemed to“oppose” what he wished to be. Perhaps especially so. He would have simply been “healing” wherever he
went to “work.”  He would have likewise been “heal-God is Being; becoming Form. And so are you.So, there is nothing for you to do, actually. And
the less done, the better. Simply be.Just...be.Neale Donald Walsch 69
ing” at home. At his church. With his friends. And
whenever and wherever he could “be” that. This is, in fact, what he did, soon after he aban-
doned his attempt to “make a living” doing whatcrystal healers do, or what massage therapists do, or
what ministers do, or whatever he thought he had
to do in order to “be” a “healer”... In other words, instead of trying to be a HEALER,
he decided to simply be HEALING. He returned to what he had been “doing” before
he’d decided to become a healer, which brought
money back into his life almost instantly. His wife returned to him, too, which was a source
of great happiness to him. Even his health returned
to normal, for it had been going slowly downhill
during the months he’d been  trying to “be” a“healer.”
Now the problem was, how was he going to be
able to tolerate his old occupation, knowing that whathe really wanted to do was be a healer? The answer was simple. He was going to see his70Bringers of the Light
occupation in a new way. Just as he saw all of Life in
a new way. For he now saw every moment and every
situation as an opportunity to be healing. Being now
on the road to life mastery, he saw opposition as op-
portunity. This changed his whole life around. Where be-
fore at this job he saw conflict and wanted to run
away from it, now he stood in the midst of it and
brought healing. Within months his reputation asa healing, helping person spread. At work, he was
soon removed from his former job and asked if he
would accept a position in charge of employee mo-rale. In his church, he became head of the team on
Well Being. In his home, his spouse and his chil-
dren found a new place of comfort to which to go intheir moments of confusion, conflict, or despair. Never before did this man have such a rich and
wonderful experience of Who He Really Is. But it went further. Soon, people in the commu-
nity began to hear about him, mainly from his ac-
tivities at church and on his job. One day he wasNeale Donald Walsch 71
asked by a friend if he would have the time and the
willingness to volunteer with a local hospice organi-zation. He knew instinctively this was a place where
he could express and experience a part of himself, a
side of  himself, which longed for richer and richerunfoldment. His wife encouraged him. His minis-
ter thought it was a wonderful place for his skills. His employer even gave him a certain amount of timeon the clock  each month to undertake the work, if he
would be kind enough to tell the hospice that he
was representing the company. Soon, his work withthe hospice became the company’s “in-kind contri-
bution” to this charitable organization. The hospice staff saw his obvious desire, his abil-
ity, his enthusiasm for working with people — both
patients and volunteers — in this unique setting. It
took only a few months for the organization to real-ize that it had a very valuable man in its midst. Then, as “luck” would have it, the head of Patient
and Family Well Being at the hospice — a lay personworking in close concert with the chief medicalofficer — moved to another town to accept a new
opportunity...
You already know the end of this. Today, when
he is not working directly with the terminally ill and
their families in his home organization, this man
travels the country speaking to hospice staff and vol-unteers. He has written a book, appeared on televi-
sion, lectured at universities and churches all across
America. Recently, at one of those lectures, he wasintroduced in a way which caught his ear. “Ladies and gentlemen,” the moderator began, “I
would like to introduce to you a man who knowsand deeply understands the meaning of the word
‘healer’.”
 This is how it happens. Had this man tried to
become a hospice advocate, author, and activist  in
the first place, he may never have succeeded. In fact,
the idea of even doing  this kind of thing may never
had occurred to him. Yet here he was. A Healer.72Bringers of the LightNeale Donald Walsch 73
Doingness will follow Beingness, as surely as
the night will follow the day. For Beingness
cannot be denied, and never will. Yet Beingnessknows its own reward. The man in our example
knew himself as “healing” in his own experience long
before he found himself “showing up” that way inthe hospice setting. Still, you may say, the example was fictional. Does
it really work this way? Can you really “be who youare” and, out of that, make a life rather than a liv-
ing? I can only tell you this. There once was a man
who wanted deeply to experience the part of him-
self  called Wisdom, and Clarity. It was an audacious desire, sweeping in its scope,
almost blasphemous in its implications. Yet this is
what he saw in himself. This is the part of God he
saw within. And this is what he wished now to ex-perience. He looked and looked everywhere, yet he could
not find a position, “Vice President in Charge of74Bringers of the Light
Wisdom and Clarity.”
He thought of creating his own firm, but no one
was buying the concept. So, he stopped trying to force his inner Beingness
into an outer Doingness. He simply decided to just“be that,” no matter what he was “doing.”
To make money, he got into marketing and ad-
vertising. He did some writing. He became a radiotalk show host. Then one day, something unusual happened. He
had a very interesting conversation with God...Neale Donald Walsch 75The Steps and Principles
in this Book
Step 1 :Get clear about the purpose of your life. Principle #1:
Life is pointless, and that is God’s Greatest Gift to us. Step 2 :Translate your purpose fromDoingness to Beingness. Principle #2:
You are a Human Being, not a Human Doing. Step 3 :Adopt right now the State of Being you
have described, no matter what you are doing. Principle #3:
Everything you are being,
you are being because you choose to be. Step 4 : Observe Opposition and call it Opportunity. Principle #4:
As soon as you decide Who and What you are, everything
unlike it will come into the space. Step 5 :Allow form to create itself. Principle #5:
Beingness becomes form.A closing note:
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10  9  8  7  6  5  4  3  2  1In memory of
Francis H. Treon
a Futzu (Master) in Gohn Dagow
(a classical, southern Chinese, soft,
monk form of self development),
who devoted his life to being a
Bringer of the Light. The world needs your
Light now. Not tomorrow. Now. Of course, you know this. That’s why you’ve found
your way to this book. This book will tell you how to shine your Light. It’s a very simple book, about a very simple process. Yet the process, though simple, may not seem easy. So listen. Watch. Pay attention. Listen to what this book has to say. Watch the
results in your life. And pay attention to how it’s all
falling together. It is falling together, you know. It may not look
like it, but it is. Usually when your life looks like it’s
falling apart, it’s really falling together. Often, for
the first time. There’s a reason for that. It has to do with a very
sound metaphysical principle. Briefly stated:As soon as you decide Who and What You Are,
everything unlike it will come into the space. Life has no choice but to show up this way, and so
you can expect it as sure as you’re reading this. It is important to understand this principle if you
are going to be a Bringer of the Light. It is a principle
you must understand, or you cannot hope to under-
take this work. However, before exploring this principle, you
should be thanked. You should be thanked for be-ing the kind of person who would want to read this
book. You don’t know how much that means to the
world right now. Unless you do. There’s a lot of pain out there. There’s a lot of
darkness. The world needs your Light right now. It really does. So. glad you could show up. Now the fun starts. Now the challenge gets underway in earnest. Now2Bringers of the LightNeale Donald Walsch 3
the healing begins. With you as the Healer. That’s what you’re here for, as if you didn’t know. That’s why you came to the Earth, in this body, in
this time and in this place. A Course in Miracles  puts it very directly:
You are in the room to heal the room. You are in the space to heal the space. There is no other reason for you to be here. All the information in this book falls into one of
two categories: Principles and Steps. There are five
of each. That is, Five Steps  toward becoming a
Bringer of the Light,  and Five Principles  which may
be used to better guide those steps. One of these Principles has just been stated. It
will be necessary to understand each of the Five Prin-
ciples in order to take the Steps necessary to be what
you now declare that you wish to be. This book will be woven like a tapestry, with the
Principles intertwined into a text describing the
Steps, so that you will clearly see the relationship
between the two. 4Bringers of the LightLet us look, then, at the first Step in your
process of becoming a Bringer of the Light
If you’re like most people, you may not have given
Life Purpose much thought in your earlier years. As
a result, you may have spent a great deal of time do-
ing things which at the end of your life will not mat-ter; will mean nothing. Not to you, not to anyone. What you really have to do if you want to get on the
fast track of evolution is to put each golden momentof Life to its highest and best use. You cannot know
what that is unless and until you decide on a
Bringers Step 1
Get clear about the
purpose of your life. Neale Donald Walsch 5Purpose. That is, you cannot decide how to get where
you are going until you decide  where  you are going. One day a man stopped his car at the corner of a
friendly street in a friendly town and motioned to a
friendly person standing nearby. “Excuse me,” the driver said, “but I seem to be
lost. Could you kindly give me directions. ”
“Certainly, sir,” said the person on the street. “Where are you trying to go. ”
“I don’t know,” the driver answered. “Well, sir,” said the person who was trying to help him,
“You must first tell me where you want to go before I cantell you how to get there. ”
If your life is directionless, it is because you have
not set a direction. If your life is without accom-
plishment, it is because you do not know what you
are seeking to accomplish. If your life has seemedpointless, it is because you have not sought to use it
as a tool with which to make  a point. Which brings us to Principle #1: Life is pointless. 6Bringers of the LightNeale Donald Walsch 7
Principle  #1
Life
is pointless. and that is
God’s Greatest Gift. 8Bringers of the Light
This may come as a shock to many of you who
think that there is a point to life, and that it
is our job to find it, to uncover it, to learn it, to un-
ravel it, to somehow, someday, somewhere discover
it — and then live up to it. It may come as a shock also to many others of you
who think that you have already  discovered the Point
of Life, and are living up to it. (Most people who fall
into this category haven’t really “discovered” the
Point of Life, they’ve been told what the Point of Life
is, and they’ve accepted that. ) Yet there is no Point to it all. Life has no point. If
Life had a Point, who would assign it one. And if
you say God, why would God create the Point, thenmake us all search for it for 50 years. (And, as a
society, for 50 thousand  years. ) And if you say God
does not make us search, but has given us the an-swer, why did God not give us the answer in a way in
which we could easily understand it, and with a for-
mula upon which we could all agree. And if you saythat God has done that, then you have not looked atNeale Donald Walsch 9
the world lately. No, God has not done that. And the reason God
has not told us what the Point of Life is, is that thereis no Point to Life. Life is pointless. And that is God’s greatest gift. Think about it. It is precisely because God has not emblazoned
His purpose across the pages of Life that Life itself is
an Open Book. A book that we get to write. We get
to decide what purpose we choose. If God had chosen a purpose — if God had a pur-
pose designed into the plan — would God not tell uswhat that purpose was. Would God allow us to spend
years, decades, centuries, searching, searching, search-
ing for the point of it all. Again, it must be said to those of you who are
now thinking, “But God did announce the purpose
of life. ”: if that is so, God did a pretty bad job of it,because if you look around you, you will see that no
one got it. Okay, a few. A few think they have gotten it. They10Bringers of the Light
know the purpose of life, and it’s just all the rest of
the people who don’t understand. Well, that, of course, is the stance taken by many
of the Earth’s major religions. These religions teach
that they know the purpose of life. There is even a
religion or two which says it is the purpose of life,
and that all we have to do is follow the dictates of
that particular religion and we will have pleased God
mightily — and be saved. On the other hand, if we do not follow the dic-
tates of that particular religion, we will be sent to
the everlasting fires of hell. None of this would be such a problem if it weren’t
for the fact that there are hundreds of organized re-
ligions making essentially the same claim. Could God have really botched the job this badly. If God really established a purpose for Life, and re-
ally wanted us to know what that was, do you sup-pose this is the best God could do when it comes to
communicating that to us in a way we could all un-
derstand. Neale Donald Walsch 11
Or is it possible that the reason we can’t seem to
agree on the point of it all is that there simply is no
point. In fact, that is exactly the case. Yet this may be
difficult to accept for many people until it becomes
clear why there is no point. There is no point because God wants us to create  a
purpose for our life. And if God had already cre-
ated that purpose, He would have robbed us of the
greatest opportunity, and the greatest tool, that wehave as we seek to perform the function  of life. Because, you see, while Life does not have a pur-
pose, it does have a function. Purpose  and function  are not at all the same thing. A clock functions  by ticking, for the purpose  of telling
time. A car functions  by internal combustion, for the
purpose  of moving people from place to place. A
microwave oven functions by causing food molecules
to vibrate very fast, for the purpose of heating food. Life functions in a particular way, but for no prede-
termined purpose. That’s because God created as the12Bringers of the Light
function of Life the determining  of a purpose. Put
another way:
God, you see, is in the constant process of creat-
ing and recreating Itself anew. God is in each mo-ment deciding what God is going to be next. This is
God’s most exciting function. (In fact, it is God’s
only function. ) This is pure creation. (For a better, and complete, understanding of this
Truth, see Conversations with God - Book One (Putnam
Publishing Company, New York City, NY). Your function
is to create the
point of your life. In so doing, you create Your Self. You decide
who and what you really are —
and who you are going to be. Neale Donald Walsch 13
This principle is presented here so that you may
understand that God has not assigned  a purpose or a
point to your life. God is waiting for you to do that. It is you who must create a raison d’etre. And that is
what you have not yet done. You have not created a
reason for being. 14Bringers of the Light
So Step 1  here is to decide and to declare  what life
is all about — for you. What is the purpose of
your life. If you can’t answer that question,  go to a
larger one: What is the Purpose of Life in general.
The author's intention is to help readers understand how to become a Bringer of the Light and find their purpose in life.
What is the author's intention in writing "Bringers of the Light"?
The book is about a simple process that helps readers discover their purpose and become a Bringer of the Light.
What is the main theme of the book "Bringers of the Light"?
The author states that life has no point, and it's up to each individual to create their own purpose.
What is the author's message about the purpose of life?
The key is to focus on what you are being, not on what you are doing. This allows you to move into a state of Beingness and eliminate unwanted experiences.
What is the key to moving away from negative experiences?
The author suggests that readers should not try to force the process but rather allow it to unfold naturally, and that they should focus on what they are being, not what they are doing.
What is the author's suggestion for those who are struggling to define their life purpose?