Neale Donald Walsch Conversations with Humanity
OMTimes: Why should anyone else believe that?
NDW: There’s no reason at all for anyone else to believe that, and I’m not asking anyone to. I believe that the material in the book emerges from Divine inspiration, yes, but I also believe that it speaks for itself. It feels to me that its wisdom is self-evident. A fresh reader will either agree or disagree, and in both cases that is totally okay with me. Whatever one’s opinion, however, I don’t think that many people will find the book uninteresting.
OMTimes: What do you believe people will find interesting here?
NDW: Well, the book starts off by saying that 98% of the world’s people are spending 98% of their time on things that don’t matter. I think that notion is fascinating in itself.
OMTimes: That’s a pretty strong statement, is this true?
NDW: Strong statements are required to encapsulate a sad state of affairs. Of course, the “98%” figure is rhetorical, not statistical. I mean, no one did a study and came up with that number. It’s a rhetorical statement, meant to indicate that most of what most of us do has little connection with anything that really matters.
OMTimes: According to whom?
NDW: According to people themselves, at the end of their lives. Surveys show that, overwhelmingly, people feel at the end of their lives that too much of their life—most of it—was spent on things that simply were not important.
OMTimes: Is this one of those ‘I should have spent more time with my family” or “I should have smelled more roses and eaten more ice cream” books?
