Life & Wisdom Quote by Neale Donald Walsch

Neale Donald Walsch reaches for a woo-tinged but rhetorically savvy metaphor: life as something with a measurable “vibration,” and modernity as a knob turned up too high. The phrase “increase in speed” borrows the authority of physics without being accountable to it, which is precisely why it works. It lets readers name a diffuse unease (restlessness, burnout, cultural whiplash) as if it’s an external condition rather than a personal failing. The stress isn’t you; it’s the frequency.

His “I think” is doing quiet diplomatic work. It frames the claim as intuition, not doctrine, leaving space for skeptics while still inviting believers into a shared diagnosis. “General increase” widens the net: this isn’t a niche complaint about phones or capitalism, it’s a planetary shift, an epochal acceleration. The subtext is spiritual triage. If the world is vibrating faster, then the old tools for meaning-making (patience, attention, tradition, even linear narratives of progress) start to feel obsolete, and you’re nudged toward Walsch’s core brand: inner alignment as survival strategy.

Context matters: Walsch’s audience is the late-20th/early-21st-century seeker, fluent in self-help language and suspicious of institutions, looking for spirituality that feels both cosmic and user-friendly. “Vibration” is a bridge term between New Age spirituality and everyday experience: it translates anxiety into energy, and energy into something you can supposedly tune. It’s an elegant reframing that converts social acceleration into personal practice, promising agency in a moment when agency feels scarce.