I'd like to add this as it directly relates to the topic at hand and has some very salient and profound insights on life.

Excerpted from page 48/49 of: Conversations with God
· an uncommon dialogue ·
book 1
Neale Donald Walsch
1992 -1994
[link to www.humanitysteam.ru]
"Well, your soul seeks the highest feeling. It seeks to experience—to be—perfect love.
It is perfect love—and it knows this. Yet it wishes to do more than know it. It wishes to be it in
its experience.
Of course you are seeking to be God! What else did you think you were up to?
I don’t know. I’m not sure. I guess I just never thought of it that way. There just seems to be
something vaguely blasphemous about that.
Isn’t it interesting that you find nothing blasphemous about seeking to be like the devil, but
seeking to be like God offends you— Now wait minute! Who’s seeking to be like the devil?
You are! You all are! You’ve even created religions that tell you that you are born in sin—that
you are sinners at birth—in order to convince yourselves of your own evil. Yet if I told you you
are born of God—that you are pure Gods and Goddesses at birth—pure love—you would
reject me.
All your life you have spent convincing yourself that you are bad. Not only that you are bad,
but that the things you want are bad. Sex is bad, money is bad, joy is bad, power is bad,
having a lot is bad—a lot of anything. Some of your religions have even got you believing that
dancing is bad, music is bad, celebrating life is bad. Soon you’ll agree that smiling is bad, laughing is bad, loving is bad.
No, no, my friend, you may not be very clear about many things, but about one thing you are
clear: you, and most of what you desire, are bad. Having made this judgment about yourself,
you have decided that your job is to get better.
It’s okay, mind you. It’s the same destination in any event—it’s just that there’s a faster way,
a shorter route, a quicker path.
Which is?
Acceptance of Who and What You Are right now—and demonstration of that.
This is what Jesus did. It is the path of the Buddha, the way of Krishna, the walk of every
Master who has appeared on the planet.
And every Master has likewise had the same message: What I am, you are. What I can do,
you can do. These things, and more, shall you also do.
Yet you have not listened. You have chosen instead the far more difficult path of one who
thinks he is the devil, one who imagines he is evil.
You say it is difficult to walk the path of Christ, to follow the teachings of the Buddha, to hold
the light of Krishna, to be a Master. Yet I tell you this: it is far more difficult to deny Who You
Are than to accept it.
You are goodness and mercy and compassion and understanding. You are peace and joy
and light. You are forgiveness and patience, strength and courage, a helper in time of need,
a comforter in time of sorrow, a healer in time of injury, a teacher in times of confusion. You
are the deepest wisdom and the highest truth; the greatest peace and the grandest love. You
are these things. And in moments of your life you have known yourself as these things.
Choose now to know yourself as these things always."-God