{"id":150983,"date":"2011-05-26T10:03:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T07:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/espirited.com\/what-it-means-to-play-the-spiritual-game\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T21:57:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:57:19","slug":"what-it-means-to-play-the-spiritual-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/espirited.com\/en\/what-it-means-to-play-the-spiritual-game\/","title":{"rendered":"What It Means to Play the Spiritual Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201c*Remember: you are constantly in the process of self-creation. In every moment you decide who you are and what you are. You decide this primarily through the choices you make about what you feel passion for\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

To be \u2018in the spiritual game\u2019 means to devote your entire consciousness, your entire body, and your entire soul to the process of creating the Self in the image and likeness of God\u2026 This is a daily, hourly, moment-by-moment act of supreme awareness. Choosing again and again in every moment. Continuous creation. Conscious creation. Creation with purpose.*\u201d<\/em>
\u2014 Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations with God<\/em><\/p>\n

Only we, human beings, possess consciousness, and as such we are endowed with the free will to choose how we respond to the things that happen to us in life. This is a banal truth, but when it comes to banality, the real challenge lies not in knowing, but in practicing what we know.<\/p>\n

What makes this banal truth difficult to practice is that it requires supreme awareness. It is not about knowing it with the mind. The challenge is to be aware of the true reasons for doing one thing or another, often against our own will and against the arguments of the mind. We usually understand making a choice as a rational process of decision-making in which we compare different viewpoints and choose the better one. But this comes at the end and is the easiest part.<\/p>\n

What is more difficult is to become aware of what we are actually choosing between. As a rule, when it comes to self-creation, one side of the choice stands in the darkness of the unconscious, and we are not even aware that it is participating. For me, this is the true challenge of self-creation \u2013 to become aware of the values<\/strong> that stand behind our concrete choices.<\/p>\n

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\u201c*Remember: you are constantly in the process of self-creation. In every moment you decide who you are and what you are. You decide this primarily through the choices you make about what you feel passion for\u2026 To be \u2018in the spiritual game\u2019 means to devote your entire consciousness, your entire body, and your entire soul […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":149602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[646],"tags":[653,657,694,681],"class_list":["post-150983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-intelligence","tag-how-changes-happen","tag-neale-donald-walsch","tag-the-purpose-of-life","tag-spiritual-teachers"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t