Quotation No. 407

All things you seek to make your value greater in your sight limit you further, hide your worth from you, and add another bar across the door that leads to true awareness of your Self.

（凡是让你恃物自重的一切，只会使你束缚日深，看不见自己的价值，因此在你迈向彻悟自性的路上，平添了重重栏栅。）（Workbook-128 3:3)

Quotation No. 406

You must have noticed an outstanding characteristic of every end that the ego has accepted as its own. When you have achieved it, it has not satisfied you. This is why the ego is forced to shift ceaselessly from one goal to another, so that you will continue to hope it can yet offer you something.

（小我所接受的每个目的，其特征必会令你侧目。当目的达成后，却从未满足过你。为此之故，小我不得不持续不断转移目标，使你继续怀着希望，期待它有一天会带给你一些东西。） （Text-8 VIII.2:5)

Quotation No. 405

The ego is your belief. It is a confusion in identification.

（小我乃是你的信念，它是认同层次上的混淆。）（Text-VIII 4:6)

Quotation No. 404

Sickness is anger taken out upon the body, so that it will suffer pain.

（疾病乃是发泄在身体上的怒气，让它承受痛苦。） （Text-28 VI.5:1)

Quotation No.387

Each worshipper of idols harbours hope his special deities will give him more than other men possess. It must be more. It does not really matter more of what; more beauty, more intelligence, more wealth, or even more affliction and more pain. But more of something is an idol for. And when one fails another takes its place, with hope of finding more of something else. 

（每一个偶像的崇拜者，都暗自希望他的特殊神祗能给他比别人更多的东西。必须多一点，不管是多出什么东西。多一点美貌，多一点智力，多一点财富，甚至多一点烦恼或多一点痛苦也好。想要更多的东西，乃是偶像存在的目的。一个偶像若不行，就再换一个，希望能找到更多其他的东西。） (Text-29 VIII.8:6)

Quotation No. 349

"Seek but do not find" remains the world’s stern decree, and no one who pursues the world’s goals can do otherwise.

（“寻而不得”，仍然是这世界严酷的写照；凡是追求世俗目标的人，别无其他出路。） (Manual for teachers-13 5:8)

Quotation No. 343

It is only the awareness of the body that makes love seem limited. For the body is a limit on love. The belief in limited love was its origin, and it was made to limit the unlimited. Think not that this is merely allegorical, for it was made to limit you.

（正是因为身体的意识，爱才显得如此有限。因身体就是爱的限制。身体是基于爱是有限的这个信念而形成的，只是为了限制那不可限制的。不要以为这只是一个譬喻而已，它的确为了限制你而形成的。） (Text-18 VIII.1:1)

Quotation No. 332

In looking at the special relationship, it is necessary first to realize that it involves a great amount of pain. Anxiety, despair, guilt and attack all enter into it, broken into by periods in which they seem to be gone… Whatever form they take, they are always an attack on the self to make the other guilty… The special love relationship is the ego’s chief weapon for keeping you from heaven.

（正视特殊关系时，必须先有心理准备，要了解这样做会勾起很大的痛苦。焦虑、绝望、罪咎及攻击心都会趁虚而入，但转眼又会杳无踪影… 不论它化身为何种形式，不外是为了使对方心生罪咎而作的自我攻击之举… 爱的特殊关系是小我设法使你与天堂隔绝的一把利器。） （Text-16 V。1：1）

Quotation No. 331

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all of the barriers within yourself that you have buit against it. It is not necessary to seek for what is true, but it is necessary to seek for what is false.

（你的任务不是去寻找爱，而是找出你为了抵制爱而在自身内所建造的一切障碍物。凡是真实之物都不用你去找，但虚幻之物则有寻找出来的必要。)     (Text-16 IV.6:1)

Quotation No. 326

Judgment becomes impossible without the past, for without it you do not understand anything. You would make no attempt to judge, because it would be quite apparent to you that you do not understand what anything means. You are afraid of this because you believe that without the ego, all would be chaos. Yet I assure you that without the ego, all would be love.

（没有过去，你就无法了解任何事情，于是你就不可能作判断。倘若你心里明白自己根本不了解一切事情的意义，便不会起判断之心。但这最令你担心，因为你相信，没有小我的话，一切就会混乱无序。然而，我可以向你保证，小我若不存在，一切都成了爱。） （Text-15 V.1:4)