There are some books that you just stumble upon, by chance perhaps, and they begin to shift something fundamental within you. They awaken you, show you reflections that have lived quietly inside for years, shake your core, and snap you into existence. Conversations with God is one of those books.

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Written by Neale Donald Walsch, it is literally a conversation he has had with “God.” But whether you believe in God or not is beside the point. This book isn’t trying to make you a believer. It is, instead, a dialogue between a curious seeker and an entity we’ve named “God,” circling around the deepest questions of life, reality, purpose, and the very things you may have found yourself asking at 3 a.m.

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For me, reading this book was both an internal and external journey. The words echoed my reality as I moved through each chapter.

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• When I read about how every decision comes from either fear or love, I was trekking through landslides — stumbling inward in fear, but reaching outward in love, holding my friends’ hands and making sure they were safe.
  
  
• When I reached the chapter on purpose, I was wading through a season of meaninglessness — shifting life plans, long stretches of idle time, and the hollow rhythms of slow capitalist “work.”
  
  
• When the dialogue turned to pleasure, desire, and relationships, I was living those very dilemmas in my friendships and in my own changing relationship with fleeting pleasure versus long-term joy.
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The synchronicity was uncanny. The book felt alive, as though it was mirroring my own unfolding life.

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At its essence, this dialogue offers many “answers” to questions that never quite leave us. I place “answers” in quotation marks because wisdom on a page doesn’t become truth until it’s lived. These insights need to be sat with, tested, embodied. Otherwise, they are only words. But once experienced, they penetrate deeply and become part of how we meet this gift of life.

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If you are a seeker — in whatever capacity — this book is precious. Every single word.

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