Quotation No. 142

We are not concerned with intellectual feats nor logical toys. We are dealing only in the very obvious, which has been overlooked in the clouds of complexity in which you think you think.

（我们对知性功夫或逻辑玩意儿毫无兴趣。我们所针对的乃是显而易见之事，它却被你自以为是的复杂想法所遮蔽，以致你视而不见。）   (Workbook-39 1:3)

Quotation No. 141

If you realized that you do not perceive your own best interests, you could be taught what they are. But in the presence of your conviction that you do know what they are, you cannot learn.

（唯有当你明白你认不出对自己最有益的事时，才可能去学习认识它们。你一旦深信自己已经知之甚详，你就无法学习了。）   (Workbook-24 2:1)

 

Quotation No. 140

Vision has no cost to anyone. It has only bless.

（慧见对任何人都是无需代价的。它只会祝福。）   (Workbook-27 2:3)

 

Quotation No. 139

There is no point in trying to change the world. It is incapable of change because it is merely an effect. But there is indeed a point in changing your thoughts about the world. Here you are changing the cause. The effect will change automatically.

（存心改变世界，那无济于事。世界无法改变，因为它只是一个结果而已。然而，改变你对世界的想法，那才有意义。你就地改变了那个因，后果自会随之改变。）  (Workbook-23 2:3)

 

Quotation No. 138

In your determination to see is vision given you.

（就在你决心看见之际，慧见已赐给了你。）  (Workbook-20 3:8)

Quotation No. 137

You see no neutral things because you have no neutral thoughts. It is always the thought that comes first, despite the temptation to believe that it is the other way round.

（你所看到的东西，没有一个是中性的，因为你没有一个念头是中性的。念头永远都是走在前面，尽管你不禁要相信这个事实的反面。）  (Workbook-17 1:2)

Quotation No. 136

Every thought you have brings either peace or war; either love or fear. A neutral result is impossible because a neutral thought is impossible.

（你的念头不带来和平，就会带来战争；不是爱，就是恐惧。没有一个后果是中性的，因为没有一个念头是中性的。）  (Workbook-16 3:1)

Quotation No. 135

Let go the thoughts that you have written on the world, and see the Word of God in their place. The early steps in this exchange, which can truly be called salvation, can be quite difficult and even quite painful.

（放下自己铭刻在世界上的种种想法，并且在那儿见到了上主的圣言。这种转换过程中的初步练习——事实上可以称之为救恩——相当困难，甚至相当痛苦。） (Workbook-14 3:1)

Quotation No. 134

The world you see has nothing to do with reality. It is of your own making, and it does not exist. 

（你所见到的世界与实相毫不相干。它既出自你的妄作，故不存在。）  (Workbook-14 1:4)

Quotation No. 133

Recognizing that your mind has been merely blank, rather than believing that it is filled with real ideas, is the first step to opening the way to vision.

（体认出你的心灵始终是一片空白，而不相信它充满了真实的观念，这便是迈向慧见的第一步。）  (Workbook-8 3:3)