"Punishments are artificially created outcomes, not naturally occuring results. The attempt to convert a punishment into a consequence by simply calling it that does not make it that. Only the most immature being can be fooled by such a verbal contrivance, and, even that being, not for very long."
"This has not stopped many of those among you who have parented offspring to use the contrivance. And the biggest punishment that you have devised is the withholding of your love. You have shown your offspring that if they behave in a certain way, you will withhold your love. It is by the granting and the withholding of your love that you have sought to regulate and modify, to control and to create, your children's behaviors."
"This is something that God would never do."
"Yet you have told your children that I do it, too--no doubt to justify your own actions. But I tell you this: true love never withdraws itself. And that is what loving fully means. It means your love is full enough to hold the biggest wrong behaviour. It means more than that. It means that no behavior is even called 'wrong.'"
"....I am the love that knows no condition, nor limitation of any kind."
"I am totally loving, and to be totally loving means to be willing to give every mature sentient being total freedom to be, do, and have that which they wish."
God, (as channeled by Neale Donald Walsch) from Friendship with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
"This has not stopped many of those among you who have parented offspring to use the contrivance. And the biggest punishment that you have devised is the withholding of your love. You have shown your offspring that if they behave in a certain way, you will withhold your love. It is by the granting and the withholding of your love that you have sought to regulate and modify, to control and to create, your children's behaviors."
"This is something that God would never do."
"Yet you have told your children that I do it, too--no doubt to justify your own actions. But I tell you this: true love never withdraws itself. And that is what loving fully means. It means your love is full enough to hold the biggest wrong behaviour. It means more than that. It means that no behavior is even called 'wrong.'"
"....I am the love that knows no condition, nor limitation of any kind."
"I am totally loving, and to be totally loving means to be willing to give every mature sentient being total freedom to be, do, and have that which they wish."
God, (as channeled by Neale Donald Walsch) from Friendship with God: An Uncommon Dialogue