ON HOLIDAY

Oliver is going overseas for a few weeks. Wishing you peace and joy!

（Oliver外出旅游几个星期。祝大家平安喜乐。）

Quotation No. 180

Your value is in God’s mind, and therefore not in yours alone. To accept yourself as God created you cannot be arrogance, because it is the denial of arrogance. To accept your littleness is arrogant, because it means that you believe your evaluation of yourself is truer than God’s.

（你的价值存于上主的天心内，并不只存于你心内。接纳上主所创造的你，不可能使你傲慢自大，因为此举正否定了傲慢。接纳自己的渺小卑微才是傲慢的表现，因为那表示你相信自己的评价比上主的更为真实。）  （Text-9 VIII.10:8)

Quotation No. 179

The grandiosity of the ego is its alternative to the grandeur of God. Which will you choose?

（小我欲以它的浮华虚誇来取代上主的庄严伟大。你会选择哪一个？）  （Text-9 VIII.1:6)

Quotation No. 178

Grandiosity is always a cover for despair. It is without hope because it is not real. It is an attempt to counteract your littleness, based on the belief that the littleness is real. Without this belief grandiosity is meaningless, and you could not possibly want it.

（浮华虚誇一向是为了掩饰内在的绝望。它一点儿指望也没有，因为它不是真的。那只是针对你的渺小卑微而起的反弹，因它相信自己真的渺小卑微。若非这个信念作祟，浮华虚誇就显得毫无意义，你也不可能去追求它。）  （Text-9 VIII.2:1)

Quotation No. 177

A therapist does not heal; he lets healing be. He can point to darkness but he cannot bring light of himself, for light is not of him… The Holy Spirit is the only Therapist.

（治疗师并没有救治的能力，他只让救治发生而已。他能指出黑暗，但他自己无法带来光明，因为光明并非来自他… 只有圣灵才是真正的治疗者。）  (Text-9 IV.8:1)

Quotation No. 176

When God said, "Let there be light," there was light. Can you find light by analyzing darkness, as the psychotherapist does, or like the theologian, by acknowledging darkness in yourself and looking for a distant light to remove it, while emphasizing the distance?

（当上主说“有光”，就有了光。分析黑暗能让你得到光明吗？好比心理辅导一样，或如神学家一般，先肯定内在的黑暗，再由远处求取光明来驱逐黑暗，还一边嚷着光明遥不可及。）  （Text-9 V.6:2)

Quotation No. 175

All unhealed healers follow the ego’s plan for forgiveness in one form or another. If they are theologians they are likely to condemn themselves, teach condemnation and advocate a fearful solution. Projecting condemnation onto God, they make Him appear retaliative, and fear His retribution.

（所有尚未痊愈的救治者，不论以何种方式来宽恕，所听从的不外乎小我那一套。如果他们是神学家，他们很可能会定自己的罪，且教人定罪，并鼓吹一些可怕的解决办法。他们会把这种诅咒投射到上主身上，使他显得报复成性，而他们也开始害怕自己会受到报应。）  （Text-9 V.3:3)

Quotation No. 174

The ego, too, has a plan of forgiveness because you are asking for one… The ego’s plan is to have you see error clearly first, and then overlook it. Yet how can you overlook what you have made real? By seeing it clearly, you have made it real and cannot overlook it.

（因着你的要求，小我也有它的一套宽恕计划… 小我的策略是先让你看清错误，然后才予以妄顾。但你已把它当真了，你还能妄顾它吗？你既已对它纤毫毕察，弄假成真，你就再也无法妄视它的存在了。） (Text-9 IV.4:1)

Quotation No. 173

Let me repeat that the ego’s qualifications as a guide are singularly unfortunate, and that it is a remarkably poor choice as a teacher of salvation. Anyone who elects a totally insane guide must be totally insane himself. Nor is it true that you do not realize the guide is insane.

（让我再重申一次，由小我权充向导，是件异常不幸的事；把它当作救恩的老师，更是绝顶不智的选择。凡是拣选如此疯狂失常的向导的人，本身必然也是彻底的疯狂失常。而且你不会不明白它是疯狂失常的。）  (Text-9 IV.8:3)

Quotation No. 172

To forgive is to overlook… Forgiveness that is learned of me does not use fear to undo fear. Nor does it make real the unreal and then destroy it. Forgiveness through the Holy Spirit lies simply in looking beyond error from the beginning, and thus keeping it unreal for you. 

（宽恕就是视而不见。…从我学来的宽恕，不会用恐惧来化解恐惧，也不会先弄假成真，然后再予以毁灭。由圣灵而来的宽恕，从一开始就视而不见他人的错误，使那些错误一直对你虚幻而不实。） (Text-9 IV.5:1)